Tag: pride

Now there's Like, Heart, Rainbow, Smile, Wow, Sad, and Anger. It's like the Care Bears. During any normal month, there are five reactions on Facebook: Like, Heart, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry. But in honor of Pride month, Facebook's rolling out a new one: a rainbow. The social media network announced in a post on Friday, "We believe in building a platform that supports all communities. So we’re celebrating love and diversity this Pride by giving you a special reaction." June is...

Who cares about new iPads? You are finally able to buy the famous Pride-themed Apple Watch band. Last year, the Californian tech giant gave the limited-edition bands to all employees marching in the San Francisco Pride parade. While the LGBTI community’s Apple fans were gagging for them, there was no way to actually get one. At least not without paying outrageous prices on eBay. Other suppliers stepped up, like watch accessory makers Clockwork Synergy, tapped into the trend and released rainbow bands looking very...

"There is no bigotry, hatred and prejudice at this station." New Yorkers have to deal with subway notices all the time, but they're usually more frustrating then helpful. This week as May turned to June, Pride Train papered the MTA with some especially colorful Service Information posters, making riders aware that June was Pride month. Where it would usually say what subway lines would not be running the notices instead inform MTA riders that there is "no bigotry, hatred and...

Can you guess how much these cost? Special Pride collections are staple in many brands’ calendar for years. Nike, Adidas and Converse are among the most famous ones to release an annual Pride collection. Now Italian luxury brand Gucci has joined in, by releasing a pair of rainbow sneakers. But it would not be luxury fashion if the design was not a little more out there than others. Gucci describe it as a ‘striking take on the classic lace up’, and we are inclined...

Baker, an Army veteran, is responsible for the enduring symbol of the LGBT community. Gilbert Baker, the civil rights activist who created the rainbow flag, has died at age 65. Baker first designed the flag nearly 40 years ago for San Francisco Pride in 1978. Cleve Jones shared the news on Facebook. “I am heartbroken. My dearest friend in the world is gone,” Jones wrote. “Gilbert gave the world the Rainbow flag; he gave me forty years of love and friendship. I can’t...

Thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong for its annual pride parade. Thousands of people came together at Hong Kong pride today to call for equality and danced their way through the city which has been been criticised for lagging behind other Asia hubs for LGBT rights. Organisers of the event claimed that 6,800 people took part while the city’s police state only 2,500. Speaking to the Korea Held, Ray Chan, one of Hong Kong’s first gay lawyers, said: “After decades,...

Orlando. There's no reason to say what state or nation or even continent the city is in.  We all knew it growing up as the home of Disney. The place where happiness lives and breathes and grows. Then Pulse Orlando happened and it was solidified on the global map even more.  We were just about to celebrate the 1st anniversary of marriage equality across the United States when the horrific event last June occurred. I was supposed to go to Orlando...

Last we checked, the “gay Super Bowl” was Pride. And the Olympics. And Memorial Day weekend. OK, any holiday really. So by that logic, yes, Halloween is also the gay Super Bowl. In an ad for the upcoming Halloween episode of The Real O’Neals, this metaphor is brought to life, and more importantly, to dance! Since this is the first Halloween for fictional Kenny as an out and proud teen, he has big, big plans. Watch below: Source

Because commuting is nowhere near magical enough. Mobile network 3 have put on Unicorn-drawn carriages around London to get you around. This week you can get a completely different commuting experience to work. Instead of standing in someones armpit on the tube or squashed on a bus, how about taking a ride on a unicorn? Sadly this isn’t a permanent feature to London’s streets (although we totally think it should be). Unicabs, as they’re being called, are here to cheer Londoners up as the...

As plans for historic gay sex pardons are announced, revisit our interview with a man who lived through it all. The self-titled ‘oldest gay in the village’, George Montague is a remarkable man who has lived through a century in which homosexuality itself came out of the closet. He is now a writer, campaigner and Pride ambassador in his hometown of Brighton. As the British government announces plans to pardon the thousands of gay men convicted under historic anti-gay laws, we’re...

On National Coming Out Day, Lancaster University health professor Elizabeth McDermott looks at why it’s often still so difficult to be out and proud. A few months ago, I interviewed a 19-year-old bisexual woman and asked her why she had found it so difficult to “come out”. She replied: “I just had hate coming at me from all sides”. It may seem odd that a young woman living in the UK has experienced hostility because of her sexual orientation. The UK has made many legislative changes to...

Pride Toronto has apologised for perceived “anti-blackness” and launched a process to consider whether to ban police units from marches, after demands from Black Lives Matter protesters. In July, the Canadian city’s Pride parade ground to an unexpected halt when Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted the event, refusing to let the march continue until organisers agreed to a string of demands. The group, who criticised the event’s alleged “anti-blackness” in an official statement, only agreed to let the parade continue when Pride Toronto organisers signed...

Nearly every year, Frances Goldin attends New York City Pride holding a sign that reads “I adore my lesbian daughters. Keep them safe.” This newspaper image showing a woman holding a sign that reads “I adore my lesbian daughters. Keep them safe” has been floating all around the internet for quite some time now — maybe you’ve seen it? And there are a bunch of other photographs — of the same woman and the same sign — from pride celebrations over...

'I think it was probably the first time people had seen a drag show in their life,' said the organiser. Morehead, Kentucky, just held its first ever Pride celebration over the weekend but the person responsible for putting the city on the map wasn’t in the crowd. Rowan County clerk Kim Davis gained international attention in August 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on the basis of her religion. It was an act of defiance against the Supreme Court’s June 2015 marriage equality ruling. She was...