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July is Disability Pride Month

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The disability pride flag, with a muted black background and a diagonal stripe of red, yellow, white, blue, and green, symbolizes the barriers disabilities create and the history of ableist violence. The black background represents mourning the victims of ableist violence, the diagonal line cuts across societal barriers, and the colors represent physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual/neurodivergent, and invisible disabilities.

Disability Pride Month commemorates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990. Over 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. live with a disability — that’s more than 70 million people. The first Disability Pride celebration took place in Boston in 1990; the first parade was held in Chicago in 2004. Barriers still exist in health care, employment, public access, and representation — Disability Pride Month is a call to address them. Disability Pride affirms that people with disabilities do not need to be “fixed” — they deserve to be embraced just as they are.

Source: https://ad.lacounty.gov/about-us/campaigns/disability-pride-2025/