Pride Walk – Roze Maandag, Tilburg Kermis (Part 2)
Young and Old, With Smiles and Pride

Part 2 of my Roze Maandag series brings you into the heart of the Pride Walk — a moving celebration of love, visibility, and community that began at Tilburg Central Station.

Though the official start was at 14:00, the first participants arrived hours earlier, ready to make their presence known. As the parade began to move through the city, so did I — sprinting ahead again and again to capture fresh angles (seven times in total, with 12.5 kg on my back and two cameras strapped to my front… safe to say, I felt it in my legs later).

In this set, you’ll find a wide-angle shot showing the sheer scale of the event — a long, beautiful river of rainbow flags and waving hands. One photo captures three generations of women — young, middle-aged, and elderly — each radiating pride in her own way. Along the route, bystanders paused, smiled, clapped, or stood in amazed silence. Even those not walking became part of the moment.

Pride is not just for the young or for one group — it's for everyone who believes in dignity, visibility, and love without conditions. That message walked right through the streets of Tilburg yesterday.

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Celebrate Pride Month 2025 this June with a bold TikTok post bursting with rainbow imagery, rainbow flags, and buildings glowing in radiant rainbow colors! 🌈 This year, Pride Month highlights the urgent fight against the Trump administration’s erasure of LGBTQ+ history and achievements. Most notably, the Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has ordered the... #PrideMonth2025 #HarveyMilk #RainbowFlags #LGBTQVisibility #PrideMonth #JunePride #RainbowBuildings #LoveIsLove #Pride2025

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  • That's why their "#RainbowDonut" doesn't have an actual rainbow on it, as #RainbowFlags are considere "Illegal Sybold if Terrorist Organizations" in reactionary regimes like #Russia and #KSA...
Thai LGBT community start Pride Month ahead of marriage equality bill readings | World News - The Indian Express

Rainbow flags filled the streets of Bangkok on Saturday at the start of Pride Month as Thailand inches closer to recognising same-sex marriages.

The Indian Express
‘Just spread love’: Crowds celebrate, wave rainbow flags at the Utah Pride Parade

Hundreds of Utahns turned out to celebrate the LGBTQ community on Saturday and Sunday, marching, cheering and waving rainbow flags.

The Salt Lake Tribune

This rant evolved from a comment on a comment on a #JerusalemPost article.

Hamas are a bunch of sexist religious conservatives, I doubt they like queers, but the objections to Queer leftists opposing the war are nuts. The biggest pro war voices in Israel are anti #LGBTQ nationalist / religious extremists like #Bezalel_Smotrich who organised a #BeastParade to mock the pride parade in Israel.

Do guys like #Smotrich mean western #queers should all be in favour of the #7October attack? that logic is just as broken as saying we should support bombing and starving Gaza.

Other than the clear danger posed to EVERYONE in Gaza, including any (probably closeted) queers, bombing #Gaza while flying #RainbowFlags and talking about #WesternValues is MASSIVELY counter productive.

Persecuting queers seems to be a very low priority for Hamas. But, for example, in #Russia it is becoming very prominent and a central part of the rhetoric involved is accusing queer activists of being malicious agents of western imperialism.

I've found two documented cases of specific #LGBT people killed by Hamas, both men, both soldiers, both shot.

One of their own killed by firing squad in 2016. Western Tabloids said it was because he was gay, but the charge was vague, I'm not very confident that's the full story. It's possible, just currently I rate it as "not enough info".

And one IDF on 7 October, obviously not killed for being gay.

From what i have seen so far, I don't believe #Hamas was recently throwing anyone off buildings. All the photos I've seen claiming to be "Hamas would throw you off a building" have been ISIS, Hamas and #ISIS hate each other.

Vigilantes might have done it, but vigilantes in Sydney Australia threw 88 gay guys off a cliff, this doesn't mean bombing Sydney helps LGBT people.

A cop in Sydney killed a gay couple this year, i still don't think anyone should bomb Sydney, but if the #IDF want too come "neutralize" the NSW police?

tangential tags…
#hamasisisis #hamas_is_isis #HamasISIS
wtf is #JewishISIS ?

#BezalelSmotrich

Florida GOP lawmakers seek to ban rainbow flags in schools, saying they're bad for students

Florida Republicans advanced a bill Wednesday that would ban teachers from wearing a rainbow flag lapel pin in public schools and universities. The language forbids government employees from displaying any flag or even depictions of flags that shows a “racial, sexual orientation and gender, or political ideology viewpoint” in a state or local government building. GOP Rep. David Borrero says children need to be protected from images of the LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter movements. Opponents say the bill is inspired by hate. Asked about other nations' flags, Borrero says Israel's would be OK as a sovereign state recognized by the U.S. That rules out the Palestinian flag.

AP News
‘We Want Equality’: Delhi Celebrates Pride March | 14th Delhi Queer Pride Parade

More than 2,000 people took part in the 14th Delhi Queer Pride Parade on Sunday, waving rainbow flags as they celebrated sexual diversity in India and also raised concerns over the country's restrictive laws.The participants walked for more than two hours to Jantar Mantar, holding banners reading “Equality for all” and “Queer and proud.”The annual event came after India’s top court refused to legalise same-sex marriages in an October ruling that disappointed the community & campaigners for LGBTQ+ rights.#LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQ #14thDelhiQueerPrideParade #delhiqueerprideparade #pride #india #delhi #jantarmantar #march #parade #laws #gaymarriage #verdict #supremecourt #queer #equality #rights #annual #prideparade #rainbow #flag #samesex #love #loveislove #tnpositive #mirrornow #mirrornoworiginals

TimesNow