Waving their rainbow flags proudly! Allies like Melissa McCarthy and Christine Quinn joined LGBTQ+ icons reminiscent of Tinashe and Niecy Nash-Betts for 2023 delight celebrations.
Lance Bass kicked off protection of the West Hollywood Pride Parade on June 4 by discussing what the month means to him. “There’s many things I think of with pride. One, celebration of who we are, how far we’ve come [and] honoring the ones that came before us so we are able to do this,” the singer, who has been married to Michael Turchin since 2014, defined throughout a KTLA’s parade broadcast.
He continued, “But the temperature right now for the LGBTQIA community right now is very hostile. So pride is a protest. It started as a protest and it’s still a protest. So, as you see, there’s a lot of people standing up for what is right and protesting for what they believe in.”
Stars who establish as straight present their help for the queer neighborhood as effectively. McCarthy was honored as an “ally icon” through the WeHo occasion.
Meanwhile, Quinn, a former star of Netflix’s Selling Sunset, shared a particular message earlier than using within the California parade.
“A phoenix rising from ashes of hate, a vibrant rainbow after the storm of intolerance. Shedding our masks, unveiling our souls resplendent in their true colors. An echo of freedom disrupting centuries of silence,” the truth star wrote through Twitter. “Today, we’re seen and celebrated. Today, our masks are off, our love is loud. A performance adorned with the nuances of who we wish to be, who we are, and the distance between. After all, isn’t everything we all do just a form of drag? 🌈.”
She wasn’t the one actuality star on the June 4 occasion. Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars and besties Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke carried matching rainbow followers whereas being pushed in a Sutton Concept convertible.
While West Hollywood was 2023’s first main star-studded delight parade within the U.S., the celebrations will proceed all through the summer time. New Orleans and Los Angeles are scheduled for the second weekend of June whereas Chicago, and Portland would be the third weekend of the month. New York City and Nashville delight celebrations will occur over the last Saturday and Sunday of the month.
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