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Chicago has spent the entire month of June celebrating LGBTQ Pride, but the festivities culminated this weekend at the annual Chicago Pride Parade. As usual, cr
LGBT activists marched through the streets of Washington, D.C. Saturday in the city’s annual Pride Parade.
On Sunday, the producers of the Seattle Pride Parade will feature an all-day nonprofit virtual exhibition hall, which will offer sessions on topics such as COVID-19 and the LGBTQ community; a prison abolition letter writing workshop, immigrant and refugee rights, as well book discussions and the Seattle Pride Karaoke.
The Pride in London parade, celebrating and showcasing all the wonderful corners of the LGBT community, was supposed to take place on Saturday, 27 June. But like most other festivals and events across the country, Covid-19 has meant proceedings have been put on hold and the parade postponed until summer next year.
Samuel Martin, an LGBT activist and regular attendee at the Pride parade, said: “Phillip Ayoub coined the term ‘visibility complex’, which refers to the concept of the Pride movement: you need to be visible to make change.
Almost a year after I moved to New York, I was still wrestling with where exactly I fit into the LGBTQ community. So, despite the fact that my only queer friend was out of town, come Pride weekend I decided to go to the parade alone. As I watched the crowd of thousands march down 8th Street, something inside me snapped into place. I waved and cheered, the anonymity allowing me to embrace an identity I’d skirted for years. At the time, the atmosphere of celebration was just what I needed.
