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Celebrate Pride With Us: These Colors Don’t Operate
These colors DON’T sprint – and they never will.
Our visibility has never mattered more--and neither has our strength. When they try to erase our stories, we rewrite them. When they try to silence us, we acquire louder. We’re raising our flag high and making it clear, we’re not going anywhere.
From the streets of World Pride to the workplace, we will not be erased. Universe is resistance. Joy is defiance. Pride is control. Joining us in raising our flag high and making it clear - These Colors Don’t Run.
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Million Strong: From Resistance to Write down Growth, HRC Enters Self-acceptance Month More Powerful Than Ever
From executive orders, to culture wars, to state legislation, this has been a season of challenge. Still, as we always have, we are rising above adversity and fighting forward.
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Support Your Local Affinity Prides!
Affinity Prides are celebrations centered around the experiences of intersectional identities within the LGBTQ+ community. Events such as Black Prides, Latine Prides, Trans Prides, and more, are vital for providing a spac
June is Pride Month
Happy Celebration Month, from First Nations!
“Gay pride was not born of a need to celebrate being gay, but our right to remain without persecution. So instead of wondering why there isn’t a straight event parade, be thankful you don’t need one.” – Dr. Ron Holt
June is Pride Month and it is always exciting to see those first rainbows. It reminds us of the beauty and adore celebrated this month. However, at First Nations, we know that all is not sparkly and colorful, and there is much history behind the Event movement.
We also know that by supporting the LGBTQIA+ community and two-spirit family and friends, we are creating a space of acceptance and appreciation, and not perpetuating the loathe and violence that has plagued these communities for too many years.
What is the two-spirit community?
According to Smithsonian Magazine, the legal title “two-spirit&#; derives from niizh manidoowag in the Anishinaabe language. In , at the third annual Native American/First Nations gay and womxn loving womxn conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the term was adopted as part of the modern pan-Indian vocabulary and &#;refers to individuals who identify as woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, que
Pride Month
Dear Colleagues,
Today marks the first day of Pride Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of the LGBTQIA+ group, to reflect upon the histories of resilience in the face of persecution and violence perpetrated against queer communities, and to expand our knowledge of LGBTQIA+ issues. Today we raised the Pride Flag in front of our campus to honor and rejoice the lives, advocacy, and achievements of the LGBTQIA+ community.
PRIDE MONTH
June 28, , is a significant date in the development of what we now celebrate at Event Month. On this date, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in Unused York City staged an uprising to protest progressing police harassment and persecution of what was then known as the same-sex attracted community. Marsha P. Johnson, a Black, trans, double attraction woman was a significant leader of the Stonewall uprising against police harassment—an uprising that would last six days. “Many eyewitnesses have identified Marsha as one of the main instigators of the uprising and thus, some possess recognized her as the vanguard of the lgbtq+ liberation movement in the United States” (Anti-De
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