Rainbow flag
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Flying the flag for Pride. Pride 2022
We’re commemorating Pride Weekend, a time when the focus turns to the LGBTQIA+ community and a celebration of gay rights. The first pride parades took to the streets in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles in June 1970, remembering the Stonewall Uprising in Greenwich Village, New York City, the previous year. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police dragged staff and patrons from the Stonewall Inn bar, a gay venue, sparking six days of protests. On August 28, 1971, Canada’s first gay rights protest took place in the capital. Now Pride parades and events are celebrated each June in most parts of the world—New York City’s is still one of the largest Pride celebrations.
Our photo today, of course, is the now-iconic rainbow flag that symbolizes LGBTQIA+ Pride. It’s a lively, hopeful statement that promotes inclusivity and acceptance. Long may it wave.
The National Wallace Monument overlooking Stirling in Scotland
Bath, Somerset, England
Wildflowers in bloom at Lost Dutchman State Park in Arizona
Mua Caves in the Ninh Bình province of Vietnam
A walkway through a mountain peak in Chamonix, France
Abu Simbel temples on the west shore of Lake Nasser, Egypt
Firefall at Horsetail Fall, Yosemite National Park, California
Rio Grande and Sierra del Carmen Mountains in Big Bend National Park, Texas
