More companies than ever are celebrating the LGBT community through their products, and even charitable contributions. All during the month of June you will see rainbow flags, parades and celebrations. Per usual, haters will arise and try to ruin the happiness in the air. As many of you know, a group of individuals created a "straight pride parade" in Boston. This caused fury for some, others simply ignored them. Straight pride parade organizers took to twitter to include companies in the parade. Check out Axe's response below:
I'm interested to hear your thoughts! Are any of you celebrating? I'm happy to report that the company I work for handed out cool new swag in celebration of pride month.
@Karen O'Keefe The categorisation of people by melanin levels confuses me.
@Mary Ramirez The biggest annual pride parade in NZ was affected badly by controversy this year (backstory). This event was something our right-leaning party leader and Prime Minister at the time would turn up to and pose for lots of tweets every year - a mainstream event with unhappy murmurs but no big fuss the last few years. sadly, instead of being an event about pride, things are muted this year. Faded and muted are not usually synonymous with Pride Parades.
Wow. That's a real shame. I love Auckland (and New Zealanders). I agree with you too--the fact that pigment makes a difference is really stupid.
Sad that we still need pride parades - but as I'm part of the LGBTQ community and made my own experiences with hate and intolerance and there are still many countries where it's illegal to be as you are, show your love or get married - I say thank to all supporters - not only for LGBTQ, but also for everyone different, other, old, young or whoever feels, looks or whatever is discrimnated, hated or unsupported or feels unloved. And I say thank you to everyone who is supporting!
As a big sneaker fan I'm always looking forward for the Pride Collection from the Sneaker Producers like Adidas, Nike aso :) (so many sneakers - so little money)
Maybe something according straight parade (and don't take it so seriously): Is not every traffic jam in the city just a straight parade ;)
@Fabienne Gerhard this post was originally about sneakers 😂 I also love the sneaker collaboration !
😂 @Mary Ramirez - i heard (read) sneakers
Here is some interesting feedback to Atlassian's changing of a product logo to rainbow colours. An interesting point is made about usability - the colour of icons matter for efficient work.
Searching the word 'rainbow' will bring up other perspectives from 2013, 2017, 2018, and this year on this topic.
Recently I logged into my Untappd app to post a tasty bevvie and I received this awesome Card:
You can read all about their efforts here:
Untappd - PRIDE
It also made me think about my former employer Iron Mountain who takes an important and impressive stance on all things "Pride" related:
I also liked Google's video on their home page a few weeks ago! Nice animation.
Agree with @Karen O'Keefe 's statement.... it should be just exclusive to some gimmicky event every now and then!
That said... it is super awesome that it gets the attention it deserves.
I don't think New York is ever more electric than during the weeks leading up to Pride weekend — for me, it's a chance to celebrate the incredible humans in my orbit and to remind myself how much work we still need to do. I'm also proud to work for a company that supports this community and is making strides toward being more deliberate in how we celebrate. 🏳️🌈
@Erica Moss isn't it just great to work for a company that is so supporting?
I am proud to say that this month TWNKLS has been bought about by PTC, a Boston based powAR house and they are very much supporting.
It's quite awesome!