Facebook's Got Gay Pride Covered, More Or Less

Whether you see anything on Facebook about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride celebrations depends on who your friends are and which pages you like.

I love June, and whenever it coincides with my relationship status being, um, er — complicated — it’s blast.

Whether you see anything on Facebook about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride celebrations depends on who your friends are and which pages you like.

The more nonhetero-themed pages you like, the busier your events page and news feed gets during Pride month. Not all of the festivities use Facebook’s events features to invite revelers, but I can only guess that this is no different from party planning among other demographics.

There’s also some geographic variation here: San Francisco and New York celebrate Pride this weekend, but other cities stagger their celebrations throughout the summer in deference to the two largest hubs of activity.

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