#LoveIsLove – Celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month

In many cities and countries, June is Pride Month: a chance to reflect on the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and their allies have had on our history.

At Twitter, Pride is also a celebration of love for people of every gender, orientation, and identity. Twitter is where inclusion lives, empowering these diverse voices and communities to express themselves and connect.

A year ago, many Pride-related Tweets celebrated marriage equality wins in Ireland and the United States.

This year, we’ve seen Tweet conversations around the world spreading messages of love and unity, particularly in response to recent anti-LGBTQ terrorism in places like Orlando and Bangladesh.






At Twitter, we believe in that message, which is why we chose to celebrate Pride with a special #LoveIsLove emoji.



Our platform will continue to champion equality around the world.

• We will continue to partner with nonprofit organizations like the Trevor Project, which works to support LGBTQ youth in times of crisis, and are honored to have received their 20/20 Visionary Award for our work advancing an empowering message for LGBTQ young people.
• We will continue efforts to ensure all people have access to opportunity by partnering with community-based organizations like Lesbians Who Tech, which works to bring more women into technology jobs.
• We will continue to build an inclusive workplace that provides equal benefits to LGBTQ employees including covering the costs of gender reassignment surgery.
• Outside our offices, we will continue to fight anti-LGBTQ efforts that restrict the rights of our employees, such as unfair FDA regulations against gay men or Georgia’s discriminatory ‘religious liberty bill’, and support LGBTQ rights, such as the Business Coalition for the Equality Act and full marriage equality in Ireland and before the Supreme Court of the United States.

We are proud of these efforts and honored to receive a perfect 100% score from the Human Rights Campaign as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality.

This Pride Month (and always), whether you are LGBTQ or an ally, we encourage you to share the love using #LoveIsLove. Love your community, love your allies, love where you work, and love yourself.