Celebrating Pride in 2022

 

Last year, we were proud to share our first ever Pride logo for Connected Voice and the meaning behind the design. Having a Pride logo is important to us, not just as a way to show support for our LGBTQIA+ communities but also to highlight to people and organisations that our services are inclusive and relevant. Some of our services, such as our Health and Care Advocacy, are also specifically for LGBTQIA+ people. Our organisation has a history of supporting LGBTQIA+ communities (you can read more about this in Celebrating Pride on Tyneside) but we felt our support wasn’t always as visible as it could be. This logo is a small part of the ongoing actions we’re taking as an organisation to champion equality.

 

About our Pride 2022 logo

Our first Pride logo was based on the Progress Pride flag. The colours include the traditional six colour Pride flag in addition to white, pink and light blue from the transgender flag, and brown and black to represent people of colour and those lost to AIDS. You can read more about the colours of the Progress Pride flag in our 2021 blog.

This year, we have added a purple circle on a yellow background to represent intersex people. The intersex flag was first designed in 2013, and last year Intersex Equality Rights UK developed a new Progress Pride Flag to incorporate the intersex flag. The intersex flag uses purple and yellow to avoid gendered colours like pink and blue, and a circle to avoid gendered symbols. The circle also represents ‘wholeness and completeness’ as intersex people still fight for bodily autonomy.

Another element of our brand that is getting in update for this year is our use of the acronym ‘LGBTQIA+’. It might seem long but, as highlighted during some excellent training we received from Curious Arts, it is important that the letters representing queer / questioning, intersex and asexual / ally are included alongside lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender so people feel represented.