Disability Pride Month - July 2025

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Holly_Scope Posts: 3,281 Scope Online Community Coordinator
edited July 10 in Everyday life

We celebrate Disability Pride Month every July. It’s an important moment for disabled people to come together as a community. An opportunity to share experiences and start conversations.

It’s a celebration of the creativity, resilience, and achievements of disabled people.

Disability Pride Month is for anyone who is disabled – or anyone who wishes to show their allyship by celebrating their disabled communities, like businesses.

Having a dedicated month provides a focal point. It's a time for embracing disability identity positively. And challenging the negative attitudes that hold disabled people back.

Facts about Disability Pride Month

  • Disability Pride Month is a celebration of the UK’s 16 million disabled people.
  • Disability Pride Month wasn’t created by a single organisation. It began in Boston, USA in 1990 and has grown worldwide.
  • Since 2009 Scope has proudly supported the growth of Disability Pride Month in the UK.
  • Disability Pride is about celebrating disabled identity. It’s not the same as LGBTQ+ Pride, though some people identify with both communities.  
  • It’s an opportunity to raise awareness and start positive conversations. And to celebrate the diversity and strength of the disabled community. 
  • 3 in 4 disabled people have experienced negative attitudes. This Disability Pride Month we’re rejecting stereotypes and changing the conversation.    

This Disability Pride Month, join with Scope and be part of an unstoppable movement for change. 

The Disability Pride flag

A flag of all the disability pride colours from top left to bottom right.The charcoal pride colour is the background.

It’s to represent the various experiences and needs within the disabled community, such as non-visible, sensory, physical, developmental and mental impairments and conditions.

The banded arrangement of the colours represents the barriers many disabled people face and have to navigate through.

This is what each colour represents:

Red - Physical impairments and conditions

Gold - Neurodiversity

White - Non-visible and undiagnosed impairments and conditions

Blue -Emotional and psychiatric conditions, including mental health, anxiety and depression

Green - Hearing impaired, vision impaired, audio processing and all other sensory impairments and conditions

Charcoal - The charcoal background is to represent people in the community who have experienced ableism, and to protest against this

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  • MarkGibbons1
    MarkGibbons1 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 21 Contributor

    I've been disabled most of my life and it's just over 2 years that I found out there was a disability pride month. As like other pride months they get mentioned in the media and get a lot of press.

    There still seems to be discrimination against disabled than other, minority communities.

    We should be shouting out loud why don't you celebrate us like you do others. I know scope do their best but the media are not really interested which is sad.

    We need to make our voices heard it's like the pip changes the government didn't back down because of our out rage. But at the prospect of losing the vote because of their back benches.

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