Tag: Pride Month

Specifically, you can share your pride on Facebook with a new Boystown-theme profile frame designed by Austin Stone.The "Proud AF" frame is inspired by the new rainbow crosswalks installed in Boystown, according to Stone."They are such a statement, and we are so lucky to have a place like Boystown to come together and socialize with other members of the LGBTQ community," he told GoPride.com.With these new Facebook profile picture frames, you can show your pride with all your friends and...

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has decorated several train cars with rainbows for Pride Month. Some trains on the north-south Red Line will bear pride colors this month. CTA wrapped some of the cars in rainbows, like they did in 2017 and 2018. The Howard Brown Health Center sponsored the cars, and they’re decorated on the inside with images highlighting the center’s diverse patient population. 14 crosswalks in Boystown, Chicago’s gay village, will also feature pride colors. 13 of them are rainbows,...

Ellen kicked off Pride Month today with a really gay episode. The episode was so gay it didn’t even make sense, but it didn’t have to. First, she introduced a segment about parents sending kids to camp. Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” – a song that RuPaul once referred to as a “drag queen classic” – started to play to introduce the segment, and Ellen started lipsyncing. Then a drag queen came out from backstage and lipsynced with Ellen. The segment...

The limited-edition KVANTING bag features the six colors of the most common rainbow flag, a symbol of LGBT Pride.The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the charitable arm of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest LGBT rights advocate, will receive 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of IKEA's tote.Beginning June 1, IKEA will hang the rainbow flag outside all its U.S. Stores."At IKEA, our culture is centered on the value of togetherness," Rafael Fantauzzi, diversity and inclusion manager...

GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today thanked Taylor Swift for a “very generous donation” in honor of LGBTQ Pride month. “Swift’s donation will be used for GLAAD’s ongoing work to amplify stories as well as create campaigns that fight back against the current rise of hate and discrimination and also accelerate acceptance of LGBTQ people,” a statement from GLAAD read. Swift also penned a letter on her Instagram to...

Molly Pinta, who attends Twin Groves Middle School in suburban Buffalo Grove, will be in one of the first floats in the inaugural Buffalo Grove Pride Parade, set to start in the northwest suburb at 10 a.m.Pinta will be on the Memorial Float, being built by her dad and a family friend, to honor Matthew Albano – a young, gay man who passed away last fall. The float will be on a 24-foot flatbed truck with a DJ.  Pinta is...

Listerine has released a rainbow flag bottle for Pride Month this year. People are finding it… strange. The bottle is wrapped in the original eight-stripe rainbow flag instead of the much more common six-stripe rainbow flag. The meaning of six of the colors from when the flag was created in 1978 are written on the stripes. Hot pink, which originally stood for “sex,” is conspicuously silent on the bottle, probably because that part of being LGBTQ is still not safe to...

Now your entire laundromat will know how gay you are. What does it mean to queer a space? To make something queer? Does just the mere presence of a queer person make a space non-straight? Contemplate these questions and more as you schlep your laundry to the laundromat in this rainbow-colored IKEA bag! IKEA announced that it is partnering with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month with a rainbow-colored, limited-edition KVANTING shopping bag. If you purchase the...

Last year, the country backtracked on a plan to legalize same-sex marriage The Cuban government has cancelled its LGBTQ Pride event, the annual International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, which was to see participants taking to the streets in Havana on May 11, and the city of Camagüey on May 17. The government has framed the cancellation as merely an “adjustment” to the planned activities marking the occasion, the rest of which will still take place as scheduled, and include...

*Adds to Pride Month playlist* Kylie Minogue is about to take a bite out of the Big Apple. The Princess of Pop is slated to release a new greatest hits compilation, Step Back In Time – The Definitive Collection, and in addition to some of her biggest songs like “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” and “All the Lovers,” the release features a new song, “New York City.” The Aussie pop diva debuted the track last year during an intimate set...

The world's Top 50 LGBTI cities have been revealed, find out which is #1 Pride Month is here and HomeToGo, one of the world’s largest search engines for holiday rentals, has revealed the 50 best Pride destination around the globe. The search engine did so by examining search volume and occupancy rates during Pride festivals on a year-on-year basis, identifying the destinations which have recorded the biggest annual growth. LGBTI travelers can connect to locals thanks to Pride ‘Pride celebrations contribute to greater...

Astute users of Google Sheets, a free, web-based spreadsheet program offered by Google Drive, found a Pride Month secret in the program. Last week, David Murphy at Life Hacker wrote about how to get a Google spreadsheet to turn rainbow colors. All you have to do is write the word “PRIDE” in the first row, with one letter per cell. Deleting any of the letters ends the rainbow colors. If you actually want to use a spreadsheet with the Pride background, Murphy...

The campaign paid to run it on "Fox & Friends" in D.C. just so Trump would see it A Democratic candidate in the Maryland gubernatorial race has made history with his new campaign ad, in which he takes aim at President Trump and Republicans and plants a kiss on his husband. Richard Madaleno has served as a state senator for 16 years, and in the spot says he wants to become governor so he can “provide progressive results and stand up...

Whoever operates the American Airlines Twitter account was in an unapologetic mood with a Twitter user who questioned the firm's use of a rainbow logo for Pride month American Airlines is just one of the companies that has taken a public stance in support of LGBTI Pride Month in the US – even if its stance has not been welcomed by all its customers. At the beginning of the month, it changed its logo to feature a rainbow background, and included...