Queer disabled voices belong at the centre of our movements, not the margins. Too often, Pride spaces celebrate visibility without considering access, or talk about liberation while replicating ableist systems. Disabled queer and trans people have always been part of our history, our resistance, and our survival. Their stories are not side notes. They are core to what Pride is and must become.

At this intersection, survival often looks different. It means navigating inaccessible health care, medical gatekeeping, and policies that treat both queerness and disability as problems to be fixed. It means being left out of conversations about rights, representation, and justice. For many, even getting to a Pride event- physically, financially, or emotionally- is out of reach. And yet disabled queer folks continue to create, to organize, to build worlds rooted in care, interdependence, and truth.

Today, we honour that labour and that wisdom. Pride must be accessible or it is not Pride at all. That means listening deeply, redistributing resources, and refusing to centre only the loudest or most able-bodied expressions of queerness. Liberation means all of us or none of us. And it begins with asking not just who is visible, but who has been left out and why.