Roots Pride Pgh [#PrideIsPolitical]
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Although Delta Foundation’s Pittsburgh Pride’s slogan this year is ‘all you need is love’, we understand that there is no love without intentionality, no love without solidarity, and no love without justice.
We have found the Delta Foundation’s Pittsburgh Pride to be sorely lacking in the requirements for love, which is why we are creating our own. June 13, 2015 will be the first annual Roots Pride Pittsburgh.
Roots Pride Pittsburgh is a celebration of queer and trans people of color and those who stand in solidarity with us in the LGBTQIA+ community.
We have seen that far too often, Pride, here in Pittsburgh and throughout the nation, is centered on the desires of affluent, cis, gay, white men who are detached from the lived realities of much of our community. The Delta Foundation’s Pittsburgh Pride’s decision to bring Iggy Azelea to headline is an indicator of this detachment.
Pride did not start off as the sole property of cis, gay, white men. Pride is the result of uprisings against police brutality led by trans and queer women of color.
These uprisings were for the rights of LGBTQIA+ peoples everywhere to have live, love ,and Be fully who we are. Today, trans and queer people of color are still fighting for the right to live, love, and be fully who we are.
Pride was Political.
Pride is still Political.
Pride will always be Political.
Roots Pride Pittsburgh is a commitment to honor these historic uprisings through solidarity and celebration, not assimilation.
Joy KMT
QTPOC Pittsburgh Co-Founder
We have found the Delta Foundation’s Pittsburgh Pride to be sorely lacking in the requirements for love, which is why we are creating our own. June 13, 2015 will be the first annual Roots Pride Pittsburgh.
Roots Pride Pittsburgh is a celebration of queer and trans people of color and those who stand in solidarity with us in the LGBTQIA+ community.
We have seen that far too often, Pride, here in Pittsburgh and throughout the nation, is centered on the desires of affluent, cis, gay, white men who are detached from the lived realities of much of our community. The Delta Foundation’s Pittsburgh Pride’s decision to bring Iggy Azelea to headline is an indicator of this detachment.
Pride did not start off as the sole property of cis, gay, white men. Pride is the result of uprisings against police brutality led by trans and queer women of color.
These uprisings were for the rights of LGBTQIA+ peoples everywhere to have live, love ,and Be fully who we are. Today, trans and queer people of color are still fighting for the right to live, love, and be fully who we are.
Pride was Political.
Pride is still Political.
Pride will always be Political.
Roots Pride Pittsburgh is a commitment to honor these historic uprisings through solidarity and celebration, not assimilation.
Joy KMT
QTPOC Pittsburgh Co-Founder
Organizer
Michael David Battle
Organizer
Pittsburgh, PA