Instagram Marks Pride Month With Several Initiatives Inside and Outside the App

Art installations in New York, rainbow hashtags and better gender identification are highlights

Instagram is marking Pride Month with several initiatives, including art installations in New York, rainbow colors on related hashtags and a guide to online safety for LGBTQ+ teens.

The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network teamed up with @lgbt_history—an account created by Washington, D.C.-based attorney Leighton Brown and former attorney and current writer and lecturer Matthew Riemer, authors of We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation—on #UntoldPride.

#UntoldPride is a series of 10 large-scale installations that will appear in New York throughout June, spotlighting historic LGBTQ+ pioneers, places and movements that paved the way for today’s queer community—such as GAA, S.T.A.R,

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