Every year it seems like June’s Pride Month celebrations last longer and include more people. The celebration is now so huge (and so commercialized) that it can be difficult to know how to talk about it. Axis dives into the history of Pride Month, discusses what Pride means for young people in the LGBTQ+ community, and lands on some ideas for how Christians can approach this cultural conversation with biblical perspective and compassion.

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Rainbow Capitalism 00:00
History of Pride Month 00:57
Identity 2:07
How should Christians respond to Pride Month? 3:05
What does Jesus say? 4:44
Conclusion 5:43

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History.com, 2024. “Origins of Pride Month.”
NPR. 2024. “People Say They’re Leaving Religion Due to Anti-LGBTQ Teachings and Sexual Abuse.”
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. (2022). “A Brief History of our LGBTQIA2-S Flag.”
Perry, Jackie Hill. (2018). Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been. (Audio version.)
The American Presidency Project. “Proclamation 7203: Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, 1999”
The US Library of Congress. 1969: The Stonewall Uprising.
The Public Religion Research Institute. (2024). “New Survey Says ‘Religiously Unaffiliated’ is the Fastest Growing Religious Category.
Trueman, Carl. (2020). The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution.