With hundreds of gay pride celebrations around the world canceled or postponed due to COVID-19, event organizers are teaming up for a virtual alternative.
Facing a wave of cancellations amid the global pandemic, LGBTQ activists are scrambling to reimagine gay pride events, some of which are among the biggest in-person gatherings in the world.
The current working plan is to host a streaming online event that “will peak in time zones around the world, and in each of those time zones, those regional pride organizations and those local pride organizations will be directly involved in that programming component," deHarte explained. DeHarte said that no final decisions have been made about Global Pride’s fundraising details or which digital platforms will stream the event, but he said the event will likely be available across several platforms to increase accessibility and would combine social media and traditional media.
An activist with ACT UP New York and most recently the Reclaim Pride Coalition, Northrop helped organize last year’s inaugural Queer Liberation March, an alternative to the massive and mainstream NYC Pride March that she and other activists criticized as too friendly to police and corporations. “We were very, very happy with being able to shine the spotlight on the horror of the city and Mount Sinai thoughtlessly hooking up with Franklin Graham,” Northrtop said. “Our line was: If you don’t care about the values of the people you bring in to do this stuff, why don’t you bring in the Klan? They already have the gowns and the masks.”
“For me, pride is a mood and a feeling,” said Brian Silva, founder of the National Equality Action Team and former executive director of Marriage Equality USA.
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