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Pride Month
October 3, 2025
Edith Olmsted
The Wild Reason Kash Patel Fired Someone
An FBI trainee was fired for displaying “inappropriate” political signage—the LGBTQ pride flag.
June 3, 2025
Tori Otten
Hegseth Marks Pride With Plan to Rename Ship Named for Harvey Milk
The names of USNS Harvey Milk and other ships honoring prominent civil rights leaders are on the chopping block.
June 19, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
Call Attacks on Pride What They Are: Political Violence
Threats and anti-LGBTQ+ harassment at Pride events are increasingly inseparable from other political developments.
June 13, 2024
Pablo Manríquez
We Asked Republican Senators About Pride Month. It Got Awkward.
Fourteen Republicans are, alas, not celebrating Pride Month. But hey—a couple of them acknowledged that it exists!
July 10, 2023
Eli Cahan
The Trevor Project Slashed Its Crisis Line Staff During Pride Month
The move raises questions about how well the 988 line will be able to do its job.
June 25, 2023
Jason Kyle Howard
The War on LGBTQ People Being Waged in Rural America
Pride should be about celebration and protest. For many this year, especially in rural America, it’s also about fear.
June 20, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Far Right and Catholics Team Up to Protest Baseball
Portraying the Dodgers game protest as one led by “religious groups” is technically correct, but it fails to communicate the threat of political violence some of the organizers openly embrace.
June 12, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
Why Conservatives Are Losing Their Minds Over Biden’s Pride Flag—and Ignoring Pro-DeSantis Neo-Nazis
Some on the political right see only authoritarian goals in the power of the state.
June 8, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Origins of the Right’s War on Target
Target has put up Pride displays since 2015. What’s so different about this year?
May 31, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
How to Stop Neo-Nazis From Crashing Pride Month
The far right is mobilizing against LGBTQ events. But activists are getting ready as well.
June 8, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
A Pizzagate in Every City
These conspiracy theories were once fringe. Now they’re being fueled by Republicans and driving far-right anti-LGBTQ violence.
June 3, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Republicans’ Anti-LGBTQ Conspiracy Theories Are Fueling Far-Right Threats to Pride Celebrations
Their anti-LGBTQ legal crusade and “grooming” language have been adopted by extremist groups.
June 28, 2021
Evan Wolfson
From Stonewall to Today: How Activism Changed the World
It’s the fifty-second anniversary of the event that started the LGBTQ movement. But it’s what happened after the uprising that really matters.
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