An ally’s guide to Pride

Learning about identities and groups outside of our own can help take meaningful action on behalf of the LGBTQIA+ community. True allyship can only be found in tangible action. It’s not just a mindset.

• The Supreme Court has upheld marriage equality as a constitutional right since 2015.
• 21% of Gen Z now identify as LGBTQ
• The Biden administration announced U.S. citizens would be able to select their own gender markers on their passports.
• Even our language has changed.
• However, trans rights are under attack in a number of states.

In the 1950s, anxiety about homosexuals reached such a high that it led to mass firings of gay people in the federal government. But in the 1960s, with the Civil Rights Movement, it started to change. Marches and other demonstrations of solidarity informed the gay liberation movement and the first Pride parades.

Pride was, therefore, born out of protests. For many in the community, Pride became a necessary release from the harsh everyday reality of queer life in America.