12 activists marched in our 4th annual Vegan Pride Parade!

🏳️‍🌈💚✊ Thank you to the 12 terrific vegan activists who marched with us in our fourth annual Vegan Pride Parade!

Together, we championed animal rights as a vital social justice issue, showcased the vibrancy and diversity of the vegan movement, and helped fuse the struggle for animal freedom with the fight for human rights!

We proudly carried our banner down Market Street as part of the Grand Pride Parade hosted by Pride St. Louis, demanding justice for all, especially the most vulnerable! We believe that animals, queer folk, trans people, disabled people, People of Color, immigrants, and women are under attack, and that we must all resist their oppression. Because justice for all means justice for animals and every other oppressed group.

And contrary to what some animal activists say, building a more inclusive, intersectional movement for animal freedom is not a “distraction” from animal issues; it is essential to achieving liberation for all beings. As the saying goes, no one is free until everyone is free, and a threat to justice anywhere is indeed a threat to justice everywhere.

We are proud to have carried signs making the case for total liberation at St. Louis’ most colorful parade of the year. For there is no true liberation without animal liberation, just as there is no true liberation without trans liberation, queer liberation, or eco-liberation.

To everyone who doubts the value of queer vegan outreach, consider this: hundreds of people cheered for us, some even chanting the slogans on our signs. Thousands more witnessed our action yesterday, and not a single one of them heckled us. This was truly our funnest, most visible action of the year, and arguably our most impactful.

Please help keep our local momentum for animal freedom going by joining us this Saturday for our Animal Freedom March!

Want to bring vegan visibility to your own city’s Pride? Read our complete guide to hosting a Vegan Pride Parade.

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