🌈🎉 Pride Month Celebration: Let's Come Together! 🎉🌈

@CheeryMango Pride to me means that for a little while I don’t have to hide my identity as much. I can educate people about the community and help people feel welcome. It makes me really happy. Happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

@CheeryMango 

YAY its pride month!! I also made a post! thank you for making one as well happy pride everyone!!

@CheeryMango

Happy pride! 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Pride is a protest! Pride is a rebellion! Never forget. Gay and queer people are here, deserve the same basic rights as heterosexuals, and we will fight for our rights, which can never be taken away as they are not given by man, but simply are endowed to all queers simply by us existing. We will never go away, and we will not fight quietly, as we NEVER DID. HAPPY PRIDE.

"The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Although they were not the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

• The ACLU is tracking 515 anti-LGBTQ bills in the U.S. - https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024
• LGBT people are criminalised in 64 jurisdictions worldwide. Find out where with our map - https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/
• At least 510 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the United States last year — a new record, according to American Civil Liberties Union data. That’s nearly three-times the number of such bills introduced in 2022 -
  https://www.cnn.com/politics/anti-lgbtq-plus-state-bill-rights-dg/index.html
• Anti-trans bill tracker USA 2024: 586 bills, 42 states, 41 passed,  328 active, 217 failed. 253 bills carried over from last year are under consideration in 2024 - https://translegislation.com/
  

Love this! 🏳️‍🌈

@CheeryMango

Pride is an ongoing protest for a lot of us. Being from a place where same sex marriages aren't legally recognized and where people are called 'gay' as an insult, it means the hope of someday being able to live with as much dignity as any other person. 

It means, fighting for equal rights and fighting against bullying. 

It means being able to embrace our identity without being called out for doing so. 

@CheeryMango

Pride means to me that I'm not alone with my fears, challenges and unique experiences. I'm so happy that I now know that there's a whole community of people who understand, accept and sometimes relate to these parts of my identity.