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Happy Pride Month, DEV Community! 🏳️‍🌈

Erin Bensinger on June 01, 2023

In many countries around the world, LGBTQ2S+ Pride Month is celebrated throughout the month of June. Here at DEV, we'll be celebrating by uplifting...
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Medea

happy pride month everyone!

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biagotaski

Happy pride month!!!

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Happy pride month folks

🌈🌈 Stand together for a brighter, more inclusive future! 🌈🌈

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Ja5onCo3

I am new to dev.to, and somewhat new to the Developer community. When I took an interest a few years ago, I wasn't sure what to expect. I've been pleasantly surprised, time and time again, at how open and accepting the Developer community is and has been. Happy Pride Month, Fellow Devs!

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Raghav • Edited

Happy Pride Month! 🌈 I fully support the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. Let us work together to create an inclusive community where every individual is accepted as it is.

I have written an article detailing how we can help the LGBTQ+ community. You can read it at dev.to/chetanan/how-can-we-help-lg....

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Raí B. Toffoletto

Happy Pride Month 🌈.

And for those who are hostile to the cause, Pride is not just about sexuality anymore, it's about inclusion!

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Rachel Fazio

Happy Pride Month everyone! Happy to be here :-)))

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Austin Coleman

Happy pride month 🌈

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Ritesh V.

Happy pride month developers 🥳

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Dillon Barnes

Happy pride month!
I really hope that all of those people who are disgusted at this community keep their beliefs to themselves.

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Ja5onCo3 • Edited

I see a lot of deleted posts, and a questionable comment (not sure if it was meant jokingly or not). Otherwise, it appears to be a rather inclusive and supportive space. Hopefully it will stay that way.

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ByteHide

Happy pride month! 🌈

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Sunandini • Edited

🌈 Happy pride month everyone 🌈

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Michael Tharrington

Happy Pride Month folks! 🙌

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Avi Avinav

Happy pride month everyone!

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Wes

Happy Pride Month! Here's to celebrating and respecting diversity among everyone.

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Visakh Vijayan

Happy Pride month everyone

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marie Lu-K

Happy Pride 🌈❤️

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Narasingh

Happy pride month !!!

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ZayMaungMaungMyint

happy pride month !!!

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Philip John Basile

Happy Pride Month Ya'll!!

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Matteo Bruni

Happy pride month to everyone!! 🏳️‍🌈

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Okoro chimezie bright

happy pride month everyone!

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Valdenise Costa

Happy pride month <3 <3

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poetaman • Edited

arttime --nolearn -a pride60_30 to get pride flag 🌈 in your terminal. Link to arttime's GitHub homepage: arttime github. ❤️

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poetaman

Sad to see that unix community still is not accepting of pride flag... Check the downvotes on this post

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Matt Mascioni

Happy Pride month, everyone! 🌈

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Tim McWilliams

Not my bag. I never celebrate holidays about lifestyle. Seems weird.

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Brian Bethencourt

Thank you for being polite, but I'd like to tease this statement out a bit. If you celebrate holidays at all, I imagine at least one of them would be about the way people live their lives. Memorial Day? Father's Day? Maybe I'm wrong, but from my view, these holidays are about the lifestyle choices that these veterans or fathers made (or had forced upon them) that improved the lives of people around them. We have these holidays because we want to shine a spotlight on their struggles and their contributions.

Similarly, holidays like Black History Month and Pride Month exist because there's still work to do in making sure that all people can live peaceful, equitable lives without fear of social harassment (e.g. deleted comments below) or legal discrimination (e.g. bills lately proposed by the Texan GOP-controlled Senate to pick something recent and local to you). If these problems didn't exist, there would be no need to shine a spotlight on it. Since they do, it's good to talk about them so that we can find a solution collectively. On the flip side, minority groups often make significant cultural contributions that are overlooked by mainstream society. Americans owe most popular music within the last 60+ years, from Elvis Presley to Eminem, to Black American Jazz, R&B, and other early developments.

This is all to say, all power to you if you personally don't like to celebrate these kinds of holidays, but I hope this gives you a little insight as to why they exist.

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yasin cengiz

Well I don't think Sexually based topics should be brought to the context of this community do you agree?

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Brian Bethencourt

Hey there! DEV is an inclusive community that celebrates diversity and champions folks from marginalized backgrounds. This is a big part of our values and it's important to us that we create a warm, welcoming space for LGBTQ2S+ folks.

While we want you to feel comfortable expressing your feelings, we have a Code of Conduct you agreed to when you signed up that makes our values clear and states amongst many other things:

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
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Dismissing or attacking inclusion-oriented requests

While your statement seems like it's coming from a genuine place, it still feels dismissive and close-minded to insinuate that you don't think this belongs here. This topic fits our community very well and is important to us. LGBTQ2S+ folks have been marginalized in tech throughout history and continue to be; we believe it's important to recognize these facts and to try to create a space that includes and celebrates our fellow LGBTQ2S+ developers & folks working in tech.

Going forward, please keep these thoughts to yourself. We don't want to explain or debate concepts of social justice with you and we don't want you to put others in a position to explain themselves either. This post is meant to be celebratory in nature and is not an invitation for debate.

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yasin cengiz

Thank you very much, I am really sorry, for your disturbance and your point seems really good. Just there is an issue with me and I want us to discuss it privately and thank you. Here is my twitter: twitter.com/MANNEGA8

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Brian Bethencourt • Edited

I'd be happy to talk with you about this subject, but it says you cannot be messaged on Twitter. You can message me on Twitter here: @besanko_to.

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yasin cengiz

Ok thanks, but we have to follow each other to chat ok? :)

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