Pride began as a protest. It was not designed to be comfortable. It was urgent and disruptive, and was the start of a long battle for liberation. So, it is worth asking, decades on, who is Pride actually for now? Because while the key goal remains celebrating LGBTQ+ identity in all its glory, not everyone experiences it equally.
For many disabled people, neurodiverse people, people of colour, trans people, and those living in poverty, Pride can feel less like a celebration of community and more like a space they are expected to fit neatly into, rather than one built with them in mind.
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