Smith: "Then, she said, 'I have this idea for a picture I want to do.' Her assistant gave us our phones back because they have to take them when you go into her office. walk up to us and know us by name and shake our hands and greet us and everything, it was just absolutely divine." gay sports bar.Ĭlinton loved the site so much that she met with Lambe and Smith yesterday, posing for pictures and supplying her own text caption. The site was created by Stacy Lambe and Adam Smith, two gay guys, who had the idea on the rooftop of Nellie's, a popular D.C. It is because of your dedication to exposing the fraudulence of late-stage Pride capitalism and your willingness to make a ton of jokes that only like five queer people can understand, that I, a sarcastic gay person, will be able to make it to the end of the month with a smile on my face.If you have been on Facebook for even a minute this past week, it's been impossible not to see the latest Internet meme - Texts From Hillary - a Tumblr filled with imaginary texts from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Without you, I would have had to confront Pride Month earnestly and head-on. To the meme community: Thank you for making this rainbow-saturated month truly special. Who cares if no one else is in on the joke? Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted
Nonetheless, I appreciate the sentimental value they most hold for others.Īll of these memes share one thing in common: they're here to celebrate the LGBTQ community. Then there are jokes that are so niche and so obscure I can barely understand them. Many address issues of serious and current concern in the queer community, including whether or not it's acceptable to invite the police, who have a historically conflicted relationship with the LGBTQ community, to Pride parades. These memes aren't necessarily for a general audience, and that's totally OK.
Extremely pro-gay memesĮxtremely pro-gay memes are memes that only people in the LGBTQ community will likely understand. They're also just one type of Pride meme. Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deleted Tweet may have been deletedĪnti-corporate Pride Month memes are a blessing. Alternatively, meme artists will slam corporations for shilling useless rainbow merchandise while refusing to help the LGBTQ community with any money or structural support. Memes will sometimes mock corporations for changing their logo to rainbow for Pride Month while ignoring LGBTQ rights the rest of the year. Anti-corporate pride memesĪnti-corporate memes typically target corporations who exploit Pride Month for their personal gain and profit, a phenomenon known as rainbow capitalism or gay capitalism.Ĭritics and meme artists often accuse corporations of demonstrating superficial support for the queer and trans community. Here are the best Pride memes from 2019 in both categories. If I were to classify Pride memes scientifically, I'd say that they tend to fall into one of two categories: anti-corporate Pride memes, which mock corporations for their participation in Pride Month, or extremely niche pro-gay Pride memes, which are far more affirming and serve the LGBTQ community directly. Memes of Meryl Streep's 'Big Little Lies' scream are so good you'll scream