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Pride
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pride príde přídě
English
2025 June 28
Etymology 1
thumb|The Stonewall Inn, a national monument in New York City, New York, U.S.A., in June 2016 during Pride Week (en event). On June 28, 1969, members of the LGBTQ community refused to cooperate or go with police who raided the inn, beginning spontaneous, violent demonstrations now known as the Stonewall riots, a key moment in the fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States.
From en gay pride, en Gay Pride.pride n.1 1 7571341401 June 2025 1; pride n https://web.archive.org/web/20220624202134/https://www.lexico.com/definition/pride
Pronunciation
en /pɹaɪd/ RP,GA
en En-us-pride.ogg GA
en aɪd 1
Noun
en LGBTQ often attributive
en event A festival or other event, usually involving a march or parade and organized annually within a city, to celebrate the experiences and identities of LGBTQ people and to promote their interests and rights. from late 20th c.
en 18 March 1978 News Notes: Rescheduled Pride ’78 Harry Seng Gay Community News Boston, Mass. GCN 5 35 2 https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews0535gayc/page/2/mode/1up 3 0147-0728 1004949480 The Penn. Council for Sexual Minorities and the Penn. Rural Gay Caucus have rescheduled their gay conference for April 7, 8 and 9. Pride '78 has been expanded following the snowstorm which postponed the conference in January. Groups, merchants, craftspeople and individuals interested in attending Pride '78 should call 717-697-3482 or 215-437-2642.
en 13 September 1999 Bonte Minnema Letters: SAC Students Administrative Council’s stinginess surfaces Andrew Loung The Varsity: The University of Toronto’s Student Newspaper Toronto, Ont. Varsity Publications 120 5 4 https://archive.org/details/thevarsity120/page/n75/mode/1up 5 0042-2789 1080357961 We are encouraging students to participate in a provincial queer youth talent search. This is a yearlong campaign. The first show is on Oct. 16, and we are organizing a Pride Week Venue for our Finalists!
en 2001 July 2 (date spoken) w:Lynda Johnston Moira Bodies: Camped Up Performances Queering Tourism: Paradoxical Performances at Gay Pride Parades Routledge Studies in Human Geography 11 London; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2005 978-0-415-29800-1 37 https://archive.org/details/queeringtourismp0000john/page/37/mode/1up And I was goin' out to meet ya, well when I went out to meet you, I felt soooo exposed and such a minority. I never felt like that in Glasgow walkin' in the streets like that, going to Pride … There's much more of a celebration feeling or warmth, a warmth towards it. In Edinburgh I felt much more antagonist energy.
en 2005 David Campos Terms and Symbols Defined Understanding Gay and Lesbian Youth: Lessons for Straight School Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Education part 2 (Rainbow Flags, Stonewall Inn, and GLBT Persons: A Primer about the Gay and Lesbian Community) 115 https://archive.org/details/understandinggay0000camp/page/115/mode/1up 978-1-57886-267-2 We've been pretty closeted until now. So you can imagine how I felt about going to Pride. But when Andrea said she wanted to go, I gave it [a] shot.
en 2006 Julie Fish Conducting Research among LGB Communities Heterosexism in Health and Social Care Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y. w:Palgrave Macmillan part I (Understanding Heterosexism in Health and Social Care) 106 https://books.google.com/books?id=xDwWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA106 978-1-349-52062-6 Pride events are no longer confined to major cities Nor are Pride events limited to white, affluent LGBs who can afford high ticket prices: there are youth Prides in the UK, many events have retained their political origins and offer free entry, and Black Pride events are held in nine US cities.
en 2012 Mark Peterson 8 Flesh and Blood London Orion Books 171 https://archive.org/details/fleshblood0000pete/page/171/mode/1up 978-1-4091-3252-3 It's Pride this weekend, Tom, and Brighton will be packed again. Remember that your first duty is ensuring community safety.
en 2013 Medb Ruane w:Ailbhe Smyth Interview with Ailbhe Smyth Noreen Giffney; w:Margrit Shildrick Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference Breaking Feminist Waves New York, N.Y. w:Palgrave Macmillan 269 https://archive.org/details/theoryonedgeiris0000unse/page/269/mode/1up 978-1-137-30697-5 You ask about the parade where I was wearing a jump suit? Actually, it was a black wet suit with a red stripe. It was Pride Week and it was cold!
en 2016 Katherine McFarland Bruce ‘Unity in Diversity’: Pride Growth Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World New York, N.Y. w:New York University Press part I (Pride Then) 92 https://archive.org/details/prideparadeshowp0000bruc/page/92/mode/1up 978-1-4798-0361-3 The debates about representation, tone, and the gravity of Pride have persisted to the present day. But by 1975, after six years of growth, Pride was established as an annual parade with themes of public declaration of gay identity, unity among diverse people, celebration, and a continued demand for social change. Like the first events in 1970, the core of the Pride phenomenon was rooted in the actions of gays publicly showing themselves as they are and without apology.
A movement encouraging a positive approach to personal identity amongst LGBTQ people.
Related terms
en Pride Day
en pride flag
en Pride Month
en prider
en Progress Pride flag
Translations
festival or other event to celebrate the experiences and identities of LGBTQ people and to promote their interests and rights
Afrikaans: af Pride
Finnish: fi Pride
French: fr Marche des fiertés f, fr Pride f, fr fierté f Canada
Galician: gl Orgullo m
German: de Pride m, de Christopher Street Day m, de CSD m
Indonesian: id Kebanggaan
Japanese: ja プライド puraido
Polish: pl Pride m
Portuguese: pt Orgulho m, pt Orgulho LGBT m, pt Parada f, pt Parada gay f, pt Parada LGBT f
Spanish: es Orgullo m
Welsh: cy Balchder m
movement encouraging a positive approach to personal identity amongst LGBTQ people
Finnish: fi Pride
French: fr fierté f, fr Pride f
Polish: pl Pride m
Welsh: cy Balchder m
See also
en Christopher Street Day
Etymology 2
The word has two main origins:
A nickname from en cy prid precious, dear.
From en pride, a nickname for a vain or haughty person.
Alternative forms
en Pryde
Proper noun
s
en.
Derived terms
en Prides Crossing
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Pride is the 4908th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7172 individuals. Pride is most common among Black/African American (52.84%) and White (41.06%) individuals.
References
Further reading
Pride (LGBTQ culture)
Pride parade
Pride (surname)
Anagrams
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