The Little Apple Pride celebration took place in Manhattan, Kansas, on April 12.
Here is the video I recorded of this year’s Little Apple Pride Parade.
I observed signs with the following messages in the parade.
- A Just World for All
- Today I hope you know U R Seen!
- Riley County Democratic Party
- Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church
- Trans Healthcare Saves Lives
This year, I wore my rainbow phoenix shirt, just like I did last year.
I purchased the shirt from Second Wind, a worker-owned company that publishes video game reviews.
Second Wind also creates Adventure is Nigh, an ongoing multi-season Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
I wore a necklace with a transgender symbol, and dragon pins displaying the colors of the genderfluid and transgender flags.
I showcased my LGBT button collection in previous articles on Meticulous Musings.
I painted my fingernails pink for the celebration.
This is the third year I’ve recorded the Little Apple Pride Parade.
In 2023 and 2024, I discussed the pride flags that appeared in the parade.
Most of the flags in this year’s parade were also in last year’s parade. These include the rainbow, transgender, bisexual, pansexual, progress, lesbian, and asexual pride flags.
You can read my article on the 2024 Little Apple Pride celebration to learn about those flags.
Three flags appeared this year that weren’t part of last year’s parade. They are the Philadelphia, Gay Man, and Demisexual pride flags.
I will discuss these flags, next.
Philadelphia Pride Flag
In 2017, the City of Philadelphia debuted a new LGBT pride flag.
The Philadelphia Pride Flag added black and brown stripes to the top of the six stripe rainbow flag.
Philadelphia’s Office of LGBT Affairs created the flag to draw attention to non-white LGBT people and their concerns, as part of a larger effort to combat racism in the city’s gay bars.
Daniel Quasar, a nonbinary artist and designer, incorporated black and brown stripes, representing black and brown LGBT people, into the Progress Pride Flag, which Quasar created in 2018.
At the pride events I have attended, the Philadelphia pride flag has been less common than the progress pride flag and the six-stripe rainbow flag.
You can read about the rainbow flag and its variants in my article about last year’s Little Apple Pride Parade.
Gay Man
During
the pride parade, someone displayed a fan with the colors of the Gay Man flag.
The Gay Man flag, shown above, was created by Mod Hermy in 2016.
Hermy is nonbinary and bisexual.
Hermy created the flag in response to an anonymous commenter who asked about creating a flag for gay men specifically, because the rainbow pride flag was increasingly used to represent the LGBT community as a whole.
The original flag design was published on the ask-pride-color-schemes Tumblr account.
Hermy worked with a Tumblr user, who is gay and trans, who came up with meanings for each of the flag's stripes.
Gay men primarily use the rainbow pride flag and its variants, but the Gay Man flag occasionally appears at pride events, even though it’s considerably less common.
Demisexual
I observed someone displaying a demisexual flag in the parade.
A demisexual is someone who only experiences sexual attraction after they have formed an emotional bond with someone they are close to.
I discussed demisexual and other asexual spectrum identities in my article on Sexual and Romantic Orientations.
After the Parade
I watched the somewhat disorganized drag performances at Wefald Pavilion in City Park, and the better organized drag performances that evening at McCain Auditorium, many of which were quite compelling.
I visited booths for local organizations during the pride celebration.
At one of the booths, I learned about an upcoming anti-Trump protest, organized by our local Indivisible chapter in Manhattan, Kansas.
I took part in the anti-Trump protest, and many more that followed.
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