Join Us in Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride!
Tags: devpride, blacklivesmatter
Published: 2020-06-08 18:22:44

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title: Join Us in Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride!
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Each June, communities across the world celebrate Pride Month as an important, reflective, and joyful time to recognize both the ongoing adversities and inspiring achievements of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. 

This year, Pride Month is particularly poignant. The United States - and the world - is finally **beginning** to grapple with the countless deaths faced by Black people due to police brutality, overt racism, and systemic hatred for centuries. In the midst of this pain and important work, **we cannot forget the particularly deep and painful impact experienced by the LGBTQIA+ individuals that overlap with these communities.** Black and transgender women are particularly oppressed and at risk of being victims of violence. For more data on the disproportionate affect of violence on the transgender and gender non-conforming community in 2020 alone, please [read this report](https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2020). Most importantly, you can support Black LGBTQIA+ people with your signatures and money. Discover ways to do so via [GLAAD](https://www.glaad.org/blog/here-are-ways-you-can-support-black-community-and-fight-combat-racism-discrimination).

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###  #DEVPride -- How we’re celebrating LGBTQIA+ Life in June

This year, we’re kicking off #DEVPride, a celebration of community members who self-identify as LGBTQIA+. We will be collecting stories (both written and spoken-word) from self-identifying members of the LGBTQIA+ community so we can highlight them in a site-wide celebration on June 23rd (Alan Turing’s birthday). 🌈

**We’d love to read and listen to your story.** Starting today, you can publish your #DEVPride post or email us a voice memo. For those sending in recordings, we’ll be cutting together a special clip of community voices as part of our June 23 celebration and as a mini episode to be featured on the [DEVDiscuss](https://dev.to/devdiscuss) podcast.

## How to Participate
- Visit https://dev.to/new/devpride
- You’ll be presented with a few prompts - these are just for inspiration! Feel free to write your own story.
- Hit publish! 

### And if you’d like to send in a voice memo:
- Tell us what makes you proud in a 1-2 minute .m4a voice memo. - Email pod@dev.to with the recording!
- If you don’t have the means to record, call our Google Voice at +1 (929) 500-1513 and leave a message. 📞

Thank you to all of the LGBTQIA+ members of DEV. We are humbled by you and are ready to support you. We also can’t wait to celebrate _together_ this month! 

** _Note: While June is a special time for LGBTQIA+ pride, it is by no means the only time we need to hear your stories on the subject. Please feel free to use the #DEVPride hashtag long after our June 2020 Pride celebration concludes. We will continue following and being inspired by your posts and achievements._