HOLLY-BOLLY-TOLLY - PRIDE MONTH SUPPORT FROM CELEBRITIES by Aranya Bhattacharyya

In recent years, the idea of people identifying themselves as queer and non-binary have become accepted and even celebrated for those who have ‘come out’ or have managed to identify themselves as per their wish and thought process. This is the LGBTQ+ community. The community is represented by the colours of the rainbow. There are a variety of sub-communities such as the transgender community, the bisexual community, they gay and lesbian communities, binary and non-binary communities as examples. These communities have their own variations of the pride flag.
In order to celebrate the uniqueness in gender identification, fluidity and personal sexual orientation, the celebration of pride month takes place across the world. Pride month celebration however does not happen on a fixed day across the globe as per other global festivities. Pride month is celebrated in accordance to the date of the country on which LGBTQ+ was decriminalised and accepted as a part of the country’s legal system.  
We are going to take a look at some of the actors in Bollywood, Hollywood and Tollywood who have shown their support for Pride Month.

Mithila Palkar

The actress from Bollywood took to Instagram to share and celebrate pride month. She mentioned “bringing the unicorn back! Happy Pride month, err’baady!” the picture has her in front of a store that has been decorated with balloons in the layout of the pride colours with a unicorn in the background.

Source : Instagram

Sharad Kelkar

The actor took to Instagram with a picture of himself playing the role of a transgender woman in the Bollywood film, Laxmi. The image featured the actor wearing a sari, women’s earrings, necklace and a huge tip. The message read “Acknowledge their presence and spread love because all they need is Love, Respect and Equality!”

Source: Instagram

Sonam Kapoor

The actress expressed her love for the queer community and wished the community with a picture that read ‘love is love’. She wrote “Wishing all my queer friends, fans and followers a month filled with love beyond borders and boxes.”

Lil Nas X

The pop star famous for the song, Old Town Road, the well-known pop country song. The pop star recently came out and identifies as Gay. He took to Twitter with pictures of himself wearing a purple jacket, eyeliner, nail polish and rings. The room was decorated with a pink backdrop. The pop star surrounded himself with a multitude of balloons, each colour as part of the pride Flag. He urged everyone to let their LGBTQ friends know that they are loved.

Source: Twitter

Demi Lovato

The actress recently came out as non-binary. They changed their pronouns to they/them. Lovato is one of the biggest celebrity advocates of the LGBTQ community. Her  Tweet  has the text “Breaking the Binary” in the colours of the non-binary flag. The second frame consists of an image of an individual holding a Non-binary flag. Lovato has also written “IT’S PRIDE EVERY DAMN DAY Y’ALL!” They have also given hearts in the colours of LGBTQ.  

Source: Twitter

 

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga recently celebrated the 10th Anniversary of her song, ‘Born This Way’. It was released back in 2011. The song was a tribute to the LGBTQ community. Lady Gaga took to Twitter to thank her ally and LGBTQ advocate, Versace.

Versace has always been a leader. Since Gianni, Donatella, Allegra, and still now they have celebrated the beautiful colors of love we have within us to offer each other. We were all more different, and different is beautiful. pic.twitter.com/ACC5kOvW2N

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) June 1, 2021