Pride Month 2025 Fizzles as Total Dud
Pride Takes a Powder - Even alphabet rainbows have their limits
A nice piece from Radio Far Side - DD
Well, would you look at that. It’s June, and for once, my inbox isn’t drowning in rainbow-tinged marketing emails from mattress companies trying to sell me a “QUEEN-size for your inner queen.” The LinkedIn logos remain their staid corporate blue. Starbucks hasn’t launched a unicorn frappuccino called The Ally-Latte. And not a single brand has tweeted “Love is Love” before going radio silent for the next eleven months.
Pride Month 2025 has entered her quiet era—and frankly, it’s kind of a vibe.
For the first time in years, Pride doesn’t feel like a hostage situation between queer people and the marketing departments of multinational conglomerates. There’s no rainbow Doritos. No limited-edition LGBTQ+-themed car wraps. No supermarket sandwich wrapped in “representation.”
Instead: calm. Stillness. A whiff of introspection, even. It's like everyone suddenly realized, “Wait... was that a bit over the top?” (Yes. It was.)
Corporations, once desperate to wrap themselves in…