PRS #3: Do we still need Pride Parades?

Pride parades as well as other events set up to celebrate LGBT pride evoke many emotions in straight and gay people. Some people love the idea of celebrating pride, while others are reluctant to participate or even support the idea of celebration. In the 70s and 80s pride parades were held to increase the visibility of sexual and gender minority people and while society and governments started to recognize the rights of LGBTQ persons, pride parades became a way to praise the sexual and gender diversity. In recent years, events such as pride parades converted to huge events for hundreds, or even thousands, of people, offering concerts, debates, drag shows, parades and a lot more. But is it still worth doing? Do we still need pride events? In this episode I’m trying to address this issue by using the collective identity framework and unpacking two papers, one from Hahm and colleagues (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10548408.2017.1357519) and the other one from Rubino and the team (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10538720.2018.1470419).

Music: bensound.com

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/PRscience)