Not for them.
Not for me.
I'm proud of my LGBTQI+ child.
But right now, it's not safe.
Not for them, not for me.
“In just a few years, anti-trans and anti-LGBTQI+ hate has risen sharply. When I speak up in public, the attention lands on my child. It could out them. It could make them a target. Right now, the safest way to love them is without the world watching. But I still need to do something.”
What's changed this year
That's the situation so many parents are in right now. Proud, and protective, and with nowhere safe to put that pride.
So this year, Out and Proud Parents Day gives it somewhere to go.
Since Out and Proud Parents Day began in 2019, parents have marked the day by showing their faces and telling the world they love their LGBTQI+ child. That visible pride became a lifeline for other families, proof that love was possible. But when being seen puts the people we love at risk, we need another way to be loud.
So this year, we're doing it differently. Your pride, your words, out in the world.
Your name and your face, kept safe.
How it works
Send us your message.
Hope, fear, love, pain, anything you've carried and haven't been able to say out loud. This time, it's completely anonymous. We never ask for your real name, and we never will.
We'll turn your words into graphics the whole world can share.
Your message becomes a graphic in our campaign style, ready to share. No names, no faces, nothing that identifies you..
Or make your own.
Prefer to create and share your own? We've made a free Canva template you can use to turn your message into a graphic and post it yourself on 30th July with the hashtag #OutAndProudParentsDay.
[Get the Canva template]
Then on 30th July, we all share together. Everyone standing behind the same words, so no one can be singled out. Parents. LGBTQI+ people. Allies.
A sea of acceptance. A sea of much-needed hope. Visible love, to keep the people it celebrates safe.
Or download the free Canva template