🌈 Pride Month - June 2026 🌈
Pride Month is celebrated annually in June marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots. You can learn more about Stonewall riots on this post from last year’s pride month:
🌈 The History of Pride: The story of Stonewall Inn 1969 🌈
Pride is a celebration of unity! Of love and friendship, acceptance and equality. It’s an opportunity for LGBTQ+ and their allies to come together to reflect on how far we’ve come and to highlight area’s where we can improve.
🌈 UK Pride History - How did we get to today? 🌈
There will be colourful parades celebrating this unity throughout the month and I look forward to seeing these fantastic events!
You can find a lot of pride events taking place here: Pride UK & Ireland Pride Events 2026
The Importance of the Progress Pride Flag
The progress pride flag now includes black, brown, pink, light blue and white to represent marginalised people of colour, alongside the trans community and those living with HIV/AIDS. It is shaped as an arrow, which shows progress, whilst highlighting the work that still needs to be done.
The other colours represent:
- ❤️ Red - Life
- 🧡 Orange - Healing
- 💛 Yellow - Sunlight
- 💚 Green - Nature
- 💙 Blue - Peace/Harmony/Art
- 💜 Violet - Spirit
We hope you all join us in celebration this month. And if you're taking part in an event, or choosing to celebrate in another way, we'd love to hear about it!
Comments
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Without meaning to diminish the Pride flag, I always find it disappointing that Pride events don't take the opportunity to reclaim the national flag from the far right.
If we fly the Union Flag proudly and prominently at Pride events, we will show that it is our flag as well, and that Britain is an inclusive place.
Or we can let them keep it and continue making it into a symbol of division and hatred.
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I don't consider it to be my national flag, but I accept many do. I know nothing about Pride, but I imagine they have purposely kept such divisive stuff out of things.
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A fair point, but isn't it divisive to be openly gay in front of a homophobe?
There ought to be nothing divisive about our national flag except in times of war or football.
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Like I said, the Union flag doesn't represent everyone, but surely those going to Pride events all feel represented by their rainbow flag? What 'ought to be' in your view, it might not be in the view of another.
Can you see any reason the union flag might not be appreciated on the island of Ireland?
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I'm not aware of any Irish racists claiming the Union Flag as their own, so that seems to be a very silly comment…
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I have to ask - before you shoot the messenger I'm a homosexual 24 yr old -
why do you say the national flag has to be reclaimed from the "far right", surely flags can be sued by anybody?
I don't go for all of this or listen to it, I love the Mexican & Peru flags for their beauty - yes, the Valencia soccer club flag for its inspiration, the Mexican soccer flag for its stylish alure.
Why do we need a flag at all - surely the sheep herding dialect is what gets you into these situations in the first place.
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I'll forget you described my comment as 'silly', as i didn't make myself clear. The third link down at the top of the thread, it mentions Pride UK and Ireland. Why would it be a good idea to incorporate a British Union flag into the Pride flag. Isn't Pride an international movement anyway?
PS - Can you really not think of any sectarian and racist groups on the island of Ireland, ones who enjoy waving British Union flags around?
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Ah. We have a simple misunderstanding, that explains a lot.
I wasn't suggesting to incorporate any flags into each other, I was suggesting to fly the flags alongside each other.
If in Ireland then fly the Irish flag.
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I say that it needs to be reclaimed because the fascists wave it so prominently that many people's first response to seeing it is to assume that it's being flown by one of them.
The "Fly the flag" campaign was driven primarily by racism.
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I can't understand why it's beneficial to be waving any national flags at a Pride event. I certainly don't define myself by a piece of coloured cloth.
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It's not about defining oneself, it's about defining the nation.
If our flag is flown mostly at hateful events, then that is what it becomes a symbol of.
It's a strange attitude of yours: if you don't care about flags, why are you so actively opposing the idea of reclaiming ours?
I could understand it if you argued that it would antagonise the Farage Right, and be likely to provoke fights, I wouldn't agree that that's a reason to not do it, but I would understand it.
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You are aware that the United Kingdom is made up of three countries, plus a very odd situation involving 6 counties of Ireland? Not everyone identifies with your Union Flag. I can't be any more specific.
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Well the same point certainty applies to the flag of St George. Have the fascists claimed Saints Andrew and Patrick as well?
The point here is that people don't identify with the flag because the fascists have claimed it.
Or are you arguing on behalf of the people who hate Britain?
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I can't see any point in my adding further to this debate, I think we're talking at cross purposes.
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I think you should fly any flag you want at a Pride event but the Union Jack doesn't need to be 'reclaimed' from the far right because it doesn't belong to them!
Most people, especially overseas visitors, associate the Union Jack with the British royal family. The only flags I see around here are St. George's Cross.
Pride is an international celebration with a strong identity of its own 🌈
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