Pride Never Ends: Why Queer Joy is Our Year-Round Revolution

This weekend, San Francisco erupts in rainbow glory as we celebrate Pride 2025 with the powerful theme "Queer Joy is Resistance." But here's the truth that every queer heart knows: Pride doesn't end when the last parade float disappears and the glitter settles.

Our joy is too fierce, too vital, too revolutionary to be contained in just 30 days.

Beyond the Weekend: Living Loud All Year Long

While we're dancing in the streets this Saturday and Sunday (June 28-29), let's remember that every day we choose authenticity over conformity, we're staging a quiet revolution. 

Every time we love openly, create boldly, and refuse to dim our light, we're proving that queer joy isn't just celebration—it's survival strategy, it's resistance, it's the fuel that keeps our community thriving.

This weekend, my husband and business partner Celso will be celebrating at the legendary Juanita MORE!'s annual SF PRIDE PARTY on Sunday—a tradition that's been the "best party of the year" for 21 incredible years. What started as an alternative celebration has become one of SF Pride weekend's most significant nonprofit events, raising more than $1 million for local charities over three decades.

MORE! embodies everything beautiful about our community—fierce glamour mixed with generous hearts, drag irreverence paired with tireless activism. As Absolute Empress 56 of the Imperial Council of San Francisco, she's proven that celebration and advocacy aren't separate acts. They're the same gorgeous, defiant gesture.

This year's beneficiary? The Transgender Law Center—because as Juanita says, "Now, more than ever, our transgender and gender-diverse families need our allyship and support."

The Calendar That Keeps the Party Going

Enter the inaugural QUEER JOY CALENDAR—the first of its kind "pride and joy" calendar that refuses to let the celebration end.

Forget boring January starts. This revolutionary calendar begins where our hearts truly come alive: June 2025, right here in the thick of Pride Month. Co-designed by artist CJ Knight and creative director Celso Dulay, it carries that explosive joy forward through 12 months of global queer celebrations, culminating in Puerto Vallarta's sun-soaked May 2026 Pride festivities.

This isn't just a calendar hanging on your wall—it's a manifesto. 

Each month showcases the vibrant spectrum of queer life, from intimate moments of self-love to bold expressions of community strength. It honors notable PRIDE events worldwide, creating a year-long journey through the celebrations that fuel our spirits and strengthen our bonds.

Art as Activism: Your Purchase Powers Change

Here's where celebration meets action: $10 from every QUEER JOY CALENDAR sold goes directly to the Transgender Law Center. Because in times of legislative attacks and rising discrimination, our community's most vulnerable members need more than thoughts and prayers—they need legal firepower.

Founded in 2002, TLC has grown into the largest trans-specific, trans-led organization in the United States. They champion the right of all transgender and gender-nonconforming people to live freely, safely, and authentically. Prioritizing BIPOC, disabled, and HIV+ communities, they advance strategies that harness trans knowledge, power, and joy to ensure we all not only survive but thrive.

Their mission is simple: set all people free.

Their work? Absolutely crucial. From winning trans workers' rights nationwide to protecting trans students, they're fighting the battles that matter most—often for the community members who need support the most urgently.

The Revolutionary Act of Everyday Joy

San Francisco's Pride theme says it all: 

"Queer Joy is Resistance."

Every laugh shared with your chosen family, every hand held in public, every authentic expression of self—these aren't just personal moments. They're acts of defiance against a world that still, somehow, questions our right to exist happily.

Queer joy manifests in countless ways:

• Creative self-expression through art, fashion, and performance

• Building supportive and inclusive communities

• Finding love and intimacy within our beautifully diverse community

• Parenting and raising families in structures that honor all kinds of love

• Simply existing loudly, proudly, authentically—every single day

Your Call to Action: Be Loud, Be Proud, Be Year-Round

This Pride weekend, as you dance under rainbow flags and feel that electric energy of the community, make a promise: Don't let this feeling fade with the calendar page.

Order your QUEER JOY CALENDAR today (available through July while supplies last) and commit to carrying Pride's energy through every month ahead. Let it remind you daily that your joy matters, your authenticity inspires others, and your very existence is a celebration worth honoring year-round.

Because here's what they don't want us to remember: Our joy is our power.

Our celebration is our resistance.

Our refusal to be small, quiet, or ashamed is the very thing that changes the world.

Pride never ends—it just gets more creative, more colorful, and more beautifully defiant with each passing day.

Ready to make every month Pride Month? 

Get your QUEER JOY CALENDAR at GlitterWorthy.com and join the year-round revolution.

Available now through July 2025 • Limited quantities • $10 from every sale supports Transgender Law Center