Let’s talk about Corporate Pride

Last year I wrote a thing about how Pride is getting less fun, because corporations. I proved this using 7 years of Pride parade data from a large city in the northeast U.S. I just updated my dataset with the 2018 data, and things have gotten even worse… I was shocked in 2017 that a third of the parade was …

How much of Pride is for me?

The LGBTQ+ community is very diverse – in terms of race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, you name it. It also includes a wide variety of things – sexual orientations, sexualities, sexes, gender identities, relationship arrangements, and more. As inclusive as the community is in theory, how much of this is actually reflected in Pride celebrations? Like previous posts have explained, …

Company Call Outs

Previously on data confirms things we already know, it was revealed that Pride is indeed less fun these days – mostly due to it being taken over by corporations (as well as other not-so-fun entries like politicians and religious organizations). As shocking as this wasn’t, I wanted to focus in on this corporate aspect and explore it a little more. …

Pride is Less Fun

So, I’ve had a long standing theory that Pride celebrations have gotten less fun over the years. It seems like every year I spend more and more time pity-clapping for a clearly uncomfortable and stuffy politician or dodging the growing army of HRC volunteers who “just need a minute of your time”. In an attempt to gauge whether this is …