The Pride

The Pride is a visual exploration of LGBTQ+ Pride parades, capturing the vibrant expressions of identity, activism, and community. Through these images, I document the resilience and joy of a movement striving for equality.

A demonstration to celebrate the social acceptance and self-acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, non-binary and queer people, their civil and legal rights and more generally gay pride: this is the Pride.

The parade also serves to claim locally not yet acquired rights such as same-sex marriage or less discriminatory, more inclusive or protective legislation of LGBTQ+ people. This type of event takes place in many nations of the world, in most cases annually and in the period of June to commemorate the Stonewall riots that took place in New York, an epochal turning point for the modern LGBTQ+ movement.

The first parade we know is from 1970 held in Chicago and many prides still maintain their original character of political demonstration and activism, especially in nations less open to homosexuality.

In some realities also representatives of gay friendly religious confessions participate and those who label Pride as “Carnival”, most of the time do not even know the reasons why it was born and evolved in this way.

In Italy, from 20 to 30 Gay Prides are organized every year, mainly in the larger cities, but more and more parades and events are added even in the smaller centers where the LGBTQ+ community is in greater need of visibility and support.

61.3% of citizens between 18 and 74 years of age believe that homosexuals in Italy are highly or fairly discriminated against, 80.3% that transsexuals are: a manifestation like this can bring a person closer to a world apparently distant but which, in everyday reality, permeates the one considered “normal”.

Gender differences will soon be just a bad memory for a society that defines itself as evolved and modern.