The Trump administration hasn't targeted businesses that sponsor Pride events (yet), but that hasn't stopped some from pulling their funding. Several celebrations are down hundreds of thousands of dollars this year as a result of reduced or withdrawn donations. Some smaller, rural Pride events are down between 70 and 90 percent in sponsorship dollars compared to an average year. “We will remember who stood by us and who didn’t," Suzanne Ford, executive director of San Francisco said of disappearing sponsors. "When it was politically popular, they were lined up.”

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DEI rollbacks prompt corporations to pull sponsorship from major Pride parades

Several major LGBTQ Pride celebrations lose top sponsors due to DEI-related rollbacks costing $200,000 to $350,000 in funding.

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Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Here's a @Flipboard Storyboard celebrating the achievements of trans people and detailing how they are resisting attempts to erase them. "It's not a closet — it's a chrysalis," trans chaplain Rev. Caroline Morrison told The Advocate. "They try to make it a closet, but no. We grow, we change, we become new beings. And once we break free, there's no putting us back."

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Trans Day of Visibility

The first International Trans Day of Visibility was held in 2009 and it's been celebrated every March 31 since.

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Whilst it’s currently a very worrying time for trans people all around the world, today we observe Trans Day of Visibility. Please stay safe and remember you have a community that loves you.

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