It's Pride Month, and listen: We love a parade. We love to come together as a joyful, vibrant, diverse, proud community. We love to celebrate. We love love.

But that is only part of Pride.

Pride is also about solidarity, supporting one another, and building power within the LGBTQ+ community. It's about defiance — of laws and lawmakers who would dare to tell us how we can live, who we can love, and what we are worth. It's about building a future of liberation and equality.

It's in that spirit of showing up and speaking out, of solidarity and defiance — and, yes, of love — that Planned Parenthood is supporting partner organizations rooted in the LGBTQ+ community this Pride Month.

Click here to make a donation that will be shared among these partners:

• Gender Justice
• Marsha P. Johnson Institute
• SPARK Reproductive Justice Now!

As a wave of abortion bans has swept through state after state, so have bans on gender-affirming care and other legislation targeting LGBTQ+ people. Each one of these is a direct attack on the right to control our own bodies and lives.

Our movements are deeply intertwined, and our causes are inseparable. When courageous lawmakers stood up to filibuster anti-trans legislation in Nebraska, bill sponsors added an abortion ban to the bill to help force it through.

They showed us who they are in that moment, and demonstrated once again that these bills — abortion bans, gender-affirming care bans, and so much more — are about power and control. The only way to stand against them is to stand together.

Make your special Pride Month gift right now and support grassroots organizations powering this movement.

Thank you for your commitment, your solidarity, and your defiance. And thank you also for the joy, celebration, love, and pride you bring. We need all of it, together, now and for the work ahead.

— Planned Parenthood