Pride Month 2025 is coming to a close & the Gay Internet™ is honestly ready for it

As quickly as it began, Pride Month is coming to an end.

To be fair, it’s been a packed 30 days of debauchery, parades, rainbow-colored clothes, and listening to sooo much Lady Gaga.

Considering the world is on fire and a toupee-wearing Cheeto is in the White House, the LGBTQ+ community especially needed a month of partying this year.

How about we take this to the next level?

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That said, our legs (and livers) are tired, and scrolling through Gay Twitter X today, it looks like most of the girls — and their bank accounts — are ready to stop celebrating being gay. LOL.

OK, OK, we’re not trying to gloss over the importance of Pride Month to the community and the culture.

Every June is a moving reminder of generations of queer people who fought for our rights, who quite literally paved the way for this annual celebration through protest.

Who are we to complain about having to drink White Claws while discussing if Addison Rae’s new album was the official Pride Month soundtrack for four nights in a row?!

Furthermore, as the New York Times reported, this year made it apparent that “the era of rainbow capitalism seems well and truly over” — thanks, Target — so it’s up to the gays to keep our traditions alive and continue the fight for equality ourselves.

That said, the rest of the year presents numerous opportunities to celebrate the queer community — including LGBTQ+ History Month in October — albeit with a little less fanfare and far fewer Paris Hilton DJ sets.

So, we don’t exactly blame anyone who Prided too close to the sun and is looking forward to staying in for a weekend, or five.

(Although we will judge all the brands that immediately ditch their rainbow avatars at 12:01 A.M. on July 1.)

Jokes about going back into the closet aside, queer author Leo Herrera might have said it best with this post featuring an excerpt from his essay collection, Post.

The end of Pride Month, he argues, is like finishing up “a dinner party” and “the uninvited guests leave.”

“We can get back to the good stuff: defending our rights and living our culture,” he writes.

“This cleanup, this cackling while washing wine glasses and rolling our eyes, this unpacking is the real Pride. Ours, year-long, life-long. Now the real party begins.”

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to flip the page on the calendar and drink some water!

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