Misster on June 4th, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. Drag The Kids To Pride Event The Drag The Kids To Pride event was a child-friendly drag show held during Pride Month at the gay club Mr. Without you, I would have had to confront Pride Month earnestly and head-on. The memes criticize the perceived cynical and opportunistic exploitation of Pride Month as something that can win customers or fans (examples below). To the meme community: Thank you for making this rainbow-saturated month truly special. Who cares if no one else is in on the joke? Nonetheless, I appreciate the sentimental value they most hold for others.Īll of these memes share one thing in common: they're here to celebrate the LGBTQ community. Then there are jokes that are so niche and so obscure I can barely understand them. Many major corporations have stylized their logos to show the rainbow colors of LGBTQ, while the Biden Administration is debating flying the gay pride flag over our embassies.
Many address issues of serious and current concern in the queer community, including whether or not it's acceptable to invite the police, who have a historically conflicted relationship with the LGBTQ community, to Pride parades. June 1st, is the start of pride month, and big corporations and the government all took steps to virtue signal their support for LGBTQ people. These memes aren't necessarily for a general audience, and that's totally OK. 204 views 29 upvotes Made by This-One-Man-Army 6 days ago in LGBTQ. Extremely pro-gay memesĮxtremely pro-gay memes are memes that only people in the LGBTQ community will likely understand. An image tagged gay pride,pride month,ha gay.
They're also just one type of Pride meme. Alternatively, meme artists will slam corporations for shilling useless rainbow merchandise while refusing to help the LGBTQ community with any money or structural support.Īnti-corporate Pride Month memes are a blessing. Memes will sometimes mock corporations for changing their logo to rainbow for Pride Month while ignoring LGBTQ rights the rest of the year. Anti-corporate pride memesĪnti-corporate memes typically target corporations who exploit Pride Month for their personal gain and profit, a phenomenon known as rainbow capitalism or gay capitalism.Ĭritics and meme artists often accuse corporations of demonstrating superficial support for the queer and trans community. Here are the best Pride memes from 2019 in both categories. Corporations Bring Back the Pride Month Cringe What started in the 1960s as a powerful anti-capitalist riot for LGBTQ liberation has since deteriorated into a month of gay burgers and rainbow bullets. If I were to classify Pride memes scientifically, I'd say that they tend to fall into one of two categories: anti-corporate Pride memes, which mock corporations for their participation in Pride Month, or extremely niche pro-gay Pride memes, which are far more affirming and serve the LGBTQ community directly. Memes of Meryl Streep's 'Big Little Lies' scream are so good you'll scream