Pride Memes For The Tail-End of Pride Month

Happy Pride Month, y’all! With the last weekend of June behind us, it’s fair to say that Pride 2023 is officially over. The parades are done, the parties are over, and companies are getting ready to change their logos from rainbow back to their regular color scheme. I used to live in a strange city …
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‘YAAASCAR!’: LGBTQ+ community reviews NASCAR’s 2023 pride collection

Well, it’s pride month and you know what that means! Companies are diving hard into their performative support. Though it’s annoying that they’re not like this 100% of the time, you can’t deny that some of this pride merch is FIRE. The one currently being praised for their yaaasification is NASCAR. Last year was their …
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Oblivious Company Emails ‘Pride Wordsearch’ to Employees, Gets Roasted for Questionable Allyship

It’s a tale as old as the pink dollar: the month of June rolls around, and every company who wants those sweet egalitarian profits makes an empty gesture towards the LGBTQ+ community. The most famous and well memed example of this is the rainbow pride month logo, but some businesses go even further than that.  …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What Are Gay Test Drawings? (June 11, 2023)

What would Pride Month be without a little (not so) good natured gatekeeping of the LGBTQ community? Traditionally, social media has seen this as a time for companies to make their logos rainbow colored in ‘solidarity’, and as the basis for some of most infuriating arguments to have ever graced God’s green Earth.  This includes …
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Pride Month Memes To Celebrate Companies Turning Their Logos Rainbow on June 1st

In past years, pride month campaigns have been a double-edged sword. Queer people feel like they’re being pandered to by companies that don’t actually care about them. Homophobic people hate that companies outwardly support the LGBTQ community and feel like it attacks their deeply held beliefs. For the past five years, people have argued on …
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LGBTQ Memes For National Coming Out Day

A fun fact about me is that not only am I gay, but I’m also a homosexual. That was my go-to line for coming out of the closet when I was a teenager because I thought taking a comedic approach to tell people about my gayness would ease the awkwardness of the whole ordeal. Spoiler …
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LGBTQIA Memes Because It’s Always Pride For Some of Us

There’s an awful lot of discourse surrounding Pride. June (Pride month) is the only month that most evil corporations can agree on one thing: pretending to be inclusive and supporting LGBTQIA lives. The phenomenon of these companies adopting rainbows on social media, and pumping out pandering advertisements, has actually inspired a ton of memes of …
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IKEA’s Pride Couches Are Twitter’s New Favorite Meme

It may be the end of Pride month, but thanks to IKEA, the celebration is ending on a hilarious note. IKEA Canada unveiled a line of couches inspired by the myriad 2SLGBTQ+ Pride flags in late June, and (of course) Twitter users are having a field day with the flamboyant furniture. The love seats, which …
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Skittles Is Getting Roasted For Their Gray ‘Pride Edition’ Candies

It’s Pride month, and we all know what that means. The world is celebrating the  LGBTQ+ community – and brands are bending over backwards trying to show their solidarity. While some companies opt to create rainbow versions of their logos (ahem, Raytheon), others color-fy their home pages or offer special editions of their food products. …
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