Pride is the awareness of your own dignity, self-esteem, self-worth, and the experience of pleasure at the achievements of oneself and their community - the LGBTQ+ community. Pride is the antithesis of shame and social stigma. Queer people confront shame on a daily basis. We receive messages that “we are bad”. Our bodies, our gender expression, our sex, and our sexuality is wrong. We deal with any number of phobias (homophobia, transphobia, bi-phobia, etc.) and the norma