🏳️🌈 Rainbow washing or protesting? 🏳️🌈
As I’ve been participating in various events during #CopenhagenPrideWeek, I’ve been wondering how my fellow Danes view their participation in Pride.
For some, it seems like pride is just another occasion to party and have fun, or for organizations an opportunity to rainbow wash their social image. How many of the pride participants are actually taking small steps to help uplift the LGBTQIA+ community the rest of the year? For example by donating to organizations working on supporting queer rights, educating themselves on the struggles queer individuals still go through today, or helping create safer spaces for queer and other minorities at work or other places in the society?
The fact that we are able to celebrate pride so freely, and having thousands of people showing up in support of it is definitely amazing, no matter their motivation behind joining. I think it’s just important that we don’t take this for granted, in a world where these rights are under attack. From our neighbors in Poland and Italy to countries on every other continent across the world, where LGBTQIA+ rights are being forcefully denied.
I think it’s important to remember that pride started as a riot, and I hope that this does not disappear in the midst of glitter and glam.
Did you join Pride Week? How do you see Pride? And what do you do to support LGBTQIA+ rights?