#the pride parade was on the news

[txtzy]

my mom and i have been going around in circles about my sexuality for exactly a decade now. I already came out to her about 3 times when i was teen🧍‍♀️

[elinbean]

Pro-Palestine demonstrators disrupt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Nov. 23 2023 (x) (photo by Brendan McDermid)

[little-cereal-draws]

I’ve been at the NYC Pride parade for five minutes and I already heard this

~7 year old boy: what flag is that? Is that the American flag?

Mom: that’s the gay flag with marijuana on it

[agelessphotography]

Gay Activists at First Gay Pride Parade, Christopher Street, New York, Arthur Tress, 1970

[ivygorgon]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Hundreds of people celebrated LGBTQ2 joy and resilience during Calgary’s Pride Parade on Sunday.

The parade started at around 11 a.m. at the intersection of 9th Avenue Southwest and Fifth Street Southwest, ending at around noon at Fort Calgary. An all-ages festival was to be held in Prince’s Island Park throughout the afternoon and evening after the parade.

Many attendees describe Pride as an event to showcase the diversity of the LGBTQ2 community in Calgary. For them, Pride is a day to tell others that they have the right to feel comfortable in their own identities and bodies.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[geewhizze]

Wellington Pride Parade, Aotearoa

09.03.2024

[short666bread]

[bangladeshiqueermuslims]

Bangladesh's Historic Pride Walk

Rongdhonu Shovajatra ( means "Rainbow Rally" in Bengali) was an annual pride held in Bangladesh. The pride rally was organized by Roopbaan. In 2014, during the Bengali New Year, members of Roopbaan and LGBTQI+ community participated in a parade in Sahabaag, Dhaka. It was a significant moment that remains memorable for many Bangladeshis, especially Queer Bangladeshis. However the Rongdhonu Shovajatra garnered considerable media attention and faced both support and backlash.

The pride was attended by many notable LGBTQI+ icons, such as, Xulhaz Mannan, Mahabub Rabbi Tonoy, Joya Shikder, Tanvir Annoy, Tanveer Rouf, Mazharul Islam, Rasel Ahmad, etc.

[ickypuppi3]

ever think about how out of his depth steve would be if he met anyone billy hung around with in california

[fuckyeahnewmexico]

Snapshots from Albuquerque pride

[ratgingi]

i hope everyone is having a very epic and good day i lov u all :-] /p

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

Honestly, bigots like White give themselves away so much...

"We're going to prove this marginalised group we don't understand isn't being targeted by bigots by targeting them with bigotry!"

[curator-on-ao3]

⭐star⭐  from Directors Cut - what fic have you been dying to talk about?

Eeeee, thank you, @elephant-in-the-pride-parade! ❤️

I’m going to talk about The Haze.

The Haze is a Pikeuna one-shot in which Una has amnesia. I wrote it between seasons one and two, and trying to write amnesia for a character with very little backstory — when I knew more backstory was likely on the way — was difficult for me.

To explain: I got into fanfic through Voyager. My first story is from long after the series went off the air. Writing for developing canon has been a real mind-bender. With The Haze, I was admitting to myself that I could write something that would be canon-consistent … for a while … then quite likely wouldn’t be canon-consistent anymore. I think other writers learned this lesson sooner, but I finally got it with The Haze.

In that vein, for The Haze, I was working from Una’s season one description of Illyrians: “Illyrians seek collaboration with nature. By bioengineering our bodies, we adapt to naturally-existing habitats. Instead of terraforming planets, we modify ourselves. And there's nothing wrong with that.” I took that to mean Illyrians were very nature-focused. So when amnesia basically reset Una’s brain, she thinks in terms of nature analogies. I worked really hard on those and I’m really freaking proud of them to this day. Even though we saw child-Una living in a city in season two. Because The Haze was my fic to let myself use the canon I had and to try not to get upset if/when that canon would be affected by future canon.

A few more things:

This fic, because Una’s brain is missing a lot of information, was a great opportunity to play with repetition. Una can’t have a nuanced vocabulary, so her inner monologue had to reflect complex thoughts within a relatively small pool of words. I really enjoyed that challenge.

Una’s brain on factory reset … analyzing everyone around her, cataloging their faults, trying to boss them around … that was great fun.

It was really important for me that Chris set a boundary and Una, as much of a mess as she is, instantly respect that boundary. She doesn’t know she’s stronger than he is, but he knows. Her care for him even when she doesn’t know him or herself was a critical element of the story.

This fic was the first of two stories I wrote in a row in which a man shows deep respect for a woman by being quiet and letting her think. Hmmm.

As you can probably tell, I so much appreciate the opportunity to talk about this story that means so much to me. Thank you again, @elephant-in-the-pride-parade. ❤️

Want more information about a fic I wrote? Send me an ask.

[hecateisalesbian]

Toh HC:

Luz tells everyone about homophobia in the human realm, and how people hold pride marches in June and celebrate pride month. Even though they don’t know much about it, everyone on the boiling isles takes up disguises and marches through Connecticut’s pride parade. (It brings the total count up by so much)

[why-yes-i-am-an-adult]

That was deranged ❤️