Pride Month did not arrive polished and corporate. It arrived at the end of a truncheon. A history of Stonewall, the first UK Pride march, and how Second Pride in Second Life carries that lineage into virtual space.
Pride Month is more than rainbow logos and parades. In June 2026, it remains a global act of visibility, memory, protest, and LGBTQ+ community survival.
Over the last couple of weeks, the posts on this site have been doing something I did not entirely plan. They have been forming a shape. At first glance, the range looks scattered: Second Life exhibitions, art news from the physical world, queer history, museum politics, disability, AI anxieties, virtual charity events, Substack writing, personal … Read more
16 May is National Honour Our LGBT+ Elders Day. A day for the people who survived criminalisation, Section 28, the AIDS crisis, and decades of erasure. Their history is not decorative. It is evidence.