PRIDE = Loud + Proud (+ Crowd?)

Celebrating Creativity & Diversity Year Round

PRIDE WITH COLLIDE Collection

While the Stonewall Riots happened before I was born, I’ve lived through much of the modern LGBTQ+ Civil Rights movement. It continues to be a rollercoaster ride.

Some days I wanna ride that rollercoaster again and again.
Other days I wanna avoid the loud and proud crowds.

The good news about LGBTQ Pride is we all get to celebrate it however we want, whenvever we want, wherever we want, and whoever we want to be.

PRIDE CALENDAR

• LGBTQ Pride Festivals & Parades are held around the world, around the year. With few exceptions, there’s likely to be at least one Pride event happening every day somewhere in the world.

• While most Pride Celebrations do take place in June (to coincide with the anniversary of Stonewall), many communities literally march to the beat of their own drums and traditions.

• Pride Calendar = 400+ Celebrations

As attacks and hate towards LGBTQ+ folks around the world continue, I personally think it’s important to continue celebrating our diversity and cheer on the entire extended family.

Haters Gonna Hate? Lovers Gotta Celebrate!

Let’s continue celebrating good news too. And remembering queer pioneers we’ve lost along the way, as well as the private citizens who lost their lives because of hate and/or indifference.

We’d also like to encourage the trend of supporting moreLGBTQ-owned businesses.

Whether it’s our PRIDE with Collide collection or fellow creatives like The Rainbow Stores, we’d love to see more LGBTQ dollars (and pounds and euros and yen and more) kept in the community to support LGBTQ+ businesses and non-profits.

The big corporations may be our allies and employers, but few are run by LGBTQ leaders. (As for Apple/Tim Cook, they get enough of our paychecks as it is. lol)

Now that Spring has done Sprung Forward here in the US, the Pride calendar is really kicking into overdrive. We hope you can and do celebrate it.

Thanks for reading!
Clint

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NEWS + VIEWS

• It’s harder than ever to identify a manipulated photo
  (National Geographic)

• Famous photographs remade in Play-Doh – in pictures
  (The Guardian)

• The US Postal Service to Release Stamp Collection Featuring the Photography of Ansel Adams (Open Culture)

• A True and Exact History of Queer Indigenous Sovereignty
  (Hyperallergic)

• New York Times Art Critic Roberta Smith Retiring After 32 Years
  (Hyperallergic)

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