Pride

GO Magazine is proud to present 100 Women We Love, a celebration of out, proud, and amazing women who continue to make our world a better place.

From Miami to Atlanta to Northwestern New Mexico, power couple Veronica Paige and Bridgette Young pull off the perfect wedding.

Party-goers will enjoy not one, but FOUR party experiences that center BIPOC individuals in the LGBTQIA+ community and provide safe spaces year-round: PARKS & REC, BUBBLE_T, BKLYN BOIHOOD, and Lolita Leopard Presents “BALLROOM BASHMENT.”

Happy Pride!

This year’s theme is “Be Loving. Be Brave. Be Proud.”  

The entire celebration is held just steps away from beautiful Jersey shore beaches and Asbury Park’s famous boardwalk. Happy Pride!

The New Queens Pride, the second largest and second oldest pride parade in New York City, returns for their 30th anniversary this year on June 5th.

For the first time ever, Montclair, NJ will have a week-long Pride celebration of its own put on by Out Montclair.

One leader of the country’s far-right Mi Hazánk party shredded the book in a public display, calling it “homosexual propaganda.”

“I think that, when you layer gender and sexuality, and race on storytelling, it gets harder and harder and harder to tell your story sometimes, and the amount of space or permission you have to do that can really become smaller, and smaller and smaller.”

“There are moments I experience so much happiness, I cannot take it.”

“Thank God, and thank the lesbians.” 

“Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”

Here are 100 lesbian, bi, queer, and just plain human moments that had extra special meaning for our entire community.

Do you know what I longed for during the pandemic with the feverish intensity usually reserved for an irresistibly sexy ex you know you’ll never get the chance to have sex with ever again?

Lesbian Nightlife. 

Dyke Nightlife. 

Queer Nightlife. 

“When I sat down by myself in my apartment and thought about what I just said yes to, I got really emotional, because when I was younger, television, magazines, or any sort of media is where you get a preview of what could be. I never saw someone who looked exactly like me in an intimate scene.”

There were joyful tears throughout the dive bar. The whole night felt like a free mom hug.

When I look at her self-portrait, I connect with the bohemian Paris of her day, to the lesbian artist who lived and loved. I am reminded that my present is what it is because of those who came before, and that I too am a small link to our queer, and hopefully freer, future.

Queers always create beauty.

Alice was, and is still, unfolding in front of our eyes, revealing new layers each time she graces the screen in an iconic pantsuit. 

“Regardless of how society has changed in the last 17 years,” Kate Moenning, who plays Shane, tells GO, “what hasn’t changed is the primal desire to be seen and to love and be loved.” 

Dave’s Lesbian Bar could be coming to Astoria, with your help.

Queers are magic, even in the middle of an RV park.

Photos by Kristen Saunders.

Photos by Sarah Schetter.

Photos by Sarah Schetter.

Event by Henrietta Hudson. Photos by Sarah Schetter.

Event by Danielle Presents and girlNATION. Photos by Sarah Schetter.

Event by @NYDREAMGYRLEVENTS @GIRLYTHECEO @LOVERGIRLNYC. Photos by Sarah Schetter.

Every June, GO Magazine compiles a select list of talented tastemakers, influencers, and all-around inspirational women who are making their mark on the LGBTQ+ community and on the world at large.

Anywhere is truly the happiest place on earth when it’s filled with happy Queers. 

Pride means that you can own who you are, all of you, and live your truth out loud. Proud of who you are, where you are now, where you’ve been, and where you hope to go. Proud of your body, however you were born into it. Proud of who you love, what you identify as, and how you live your life. I chose to leave my dream-stealth life behind because I knew the world needed people to help them see and treat trans people differently. That’s why I can feel comfortable saying I know what true pride is.

The thought of driving through the South on purpose, as a butch dyke, was a vision of my gay hell.  But for the first stop of our tiny Pride tour, Country Roads, Take Me Homo, a small town is exactly where we ended up.

Happy Pride!

The older I become, the more that Pride becomes a period of remembrance.

“Show up to the bars,” Street says. It’s not enough to lament the loss of the lesbian bars of old; we have to support those that are still here, “to show up to the brick and mortar. It’s a form of activism.”