Logan Square

Points of Unity

These are the principles the collective was founded on.
  • We agree that PRIDE must facilitate treating each other and our community with love, respect, honor, and care.
  • We agree that no cops should be at PRIDE.
    • We will not communicate, collaborate, or coordinate with the police.
  • We agree to uphold the history of PRIDE.
    • We will uplift and center the experiences of those on the frontline (i.e. Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Stormé DeLarverie, Ms. Major, and others)
    • We will expand what we mean by histories of pride and uprising for Queer folks, particularly Black and Brown people. We will hold these activities in sacred spaces.
    • We will use educational tools to uphold this history
  • We agree that PRIDE must be about community and not big corporations.
    • We will strive to prioritize local community, Philly-born people, Philly residents and local talent
    • We will provide consideration for businesses that are part of the community
    • We will strive to not accept money from organizations that are not in alignment with our stated values
  • We agree that PRIDE in Philadelphia must be a Black and Brown LGBTQI-led event. This reflects the demography of our city.
  • We agree that PRIDE must be accessible to disabled communities.
    • We will consider the needs of and ensure accessibility for the disabled, chronically-ill, neurodivergent, d/Deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, low vision, and limited vision communities, as well as those who have historically been excluded from Pride.
  • We agree that PRIDE must be accessible to people of all languages, including people whose primary language is not English. We agree that PRIDE must be a sanctuary space for undocumented communities.
  • We agree that PRIDE must be affordable or free.
  • We agree that PRIDE should fairly compensate labor and talent apart from pre-established consensual volunteering.
    • We will clarify at the start of your relationship to the organization whether your role will be volunteer or compensated.
    • We agree to review our volunteer and compensation decisions to ensure that marginalized communities are not overlooked for compensation.
  • We agree that PRIDE must disrupt Rape culture by making clear that consent violations will not be tolerated.
  • We agree that PRIDE must embrace Sex-Workers, Kinksters and Outcasts.
  • We agree that PRIDE should work from a harm-reduction framework.
    • PRIDE should be committed to free education and resources for drug-users
    • We agree that PRIDE will provide spaces for our sober communities
    • PRIDE should include ensuring the availability of free condoms, lube, and other safer sex supplies
  • We agree that PRIDE should utilize tools of safety planning (crisis mediation model) and medic use, including mental health first-aid.
  • We agree that PRIDE is explicitly inclusive of Trans people, Fat people, immigrants, Muslim folks, people who are HIV+, Black women/femmes.
    • We will not tolerate transantagonism, Fat-phobia, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, HIV-phobia, misogyny, misogynoir, femmephobia or an otherwise unlisted manifestation of white supremacy, patriarchy, Capitalism or oppressive societal norms.
  • We agree that PRIDE must create sacred space for our young people and elders, and that our elders and young people will lead and create these spaces.
  • We agree that PRIDE must center Black, Latinx, Indigenous people in our storytelling at its core.
  • We agree that PRIDE must center specifically Queer and Trans forms of art and culture.
    • We will include ballroom history
    • We will include Drag
  • We agree that PRIDE must support community control of HIV prevention in Black and Latinx trans and queer communities by Black and Latinx people, not white-run organizations.