03/06/2026
why have i never been to pride? as a q***r person, pride might feel like a rite of passage, but if you add disability into the mix, suddenly it’s not. if your local pride events this year aren’t accessible, be loud about it! we shouldn’t have to continue missing out 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Image description: Each image has a pastel rainbow gradient in the background and a textbox with a squiggly border. There is also a watermark of the username
Image 1 shows Jasmin smiling at the camera in her black wheelchair in the right corner. She has medium-length brown hair and is wearing a dress with bright red tomato print. The text reads “I have publicly identified as q***r for 10 years. So why have I never been to pride?”
Image 2 reads “For a long time, I thought pride was something I’d eventually get to experience. Every year i’d see photos of the celebrations and the marches and tell myself: “maybe next year will be my year.”
Image 3 reads “But the reality is that as I became more disabled, pride felt less and less accessible. not because i stopped wanting to go, but because the barriers to me attending kept getting bigger.”
Image 4 reads “When people think about accessibility, they often think about ramps. But accessibility is also about: seating, accessible toilets, transport, sensory considerations, and the recovery needed after the fact.”
Image 5 reads “And too often, that information just simply isn’t available. Accessibility details are treated as an afterthought, and that’s if they’re mentioned at all.”
Image 6 reads “The result is that I’ve spent a decade celebrating pride from the sidelines. Not because I don’t want to be there, but because the spaces created for our community are rarely designed with disabled people in mind.
Image 7 reads “Disabled people have always been part of the LGBTQIA+ community. In fact, one in three of us is disabled. We aren’t a separate group asking to be included. We are already here, and accessibility makes sure all of us can participate.”
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