June is LGBT Pride Month, and this weekend in cities around the world — from Buffalo to Honolulu, from Tulsa to Long Beach, to “Gay Days” at Disney — LGBTQ Nation readers celebrated their pride!
Enjoy these photos commemorating Pride 2012 — and add your photos to our slide show by emailing pridepics@lgbtqnation.com (Remember to include your name and city). We’ll be adding your photos all month!
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While many of the events were virtual, it didn’t stop New Yorkers from flooding the streets to march, protest, dance, and spread their beautiful queer joy.
Pride celebrations in Istanbul have grown increasingly confrontational since the government has disallowed them, but thousands come anyway. We wanted to join them.
On the anniversary of the Obergefell decision, LGBTQ people all across the country lack many other civil protections – and even marriage isn’t safe to some anti-LGBTQ activists.
“I came out to my mom when I was 16 years old…”
It’s the first known public display of artifacts and items dedicated to the LGBTQ community physically installed at the historic building.
From the Beats to Bob Dylan to the actors and artists of the day, Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah was there, up-close and documenting New York’s counterculture for over four extraordinary decades.
“We are fixin’ to shock Oklahoma,” he said right before the flag went up in a neighborhood festooned with Trump banners.
And how many are there now? You might be surprised.
Pride “stands for defiance in the face of injustice,” Dr. Biden says. “It stands for justice,” President Biden agrees.
