In July, GBH celebrates Disability Pride Month to honor the history, achievements, experiences, and struggles of the disability community. The Disability Pride flag was created by Ann Magill, who has cerebral palsy. The soft colors and order of the stripes were specifically designed to accommodate people with certain disabilities, including red-green color blindness. The parallel stripes stand for intracommunal solidarity. The black background mourns disabled people who have died due to negligence, suicide, rebellion, illness, and eugenics. The colors on the flag symbolize various disability experiences.
- Red represents physical disabilities.
- Gold is for neurodiversity.
- White represents non-apparent disabilities and disabilities that have not yet been diagnosed.
- Blue stands for emotional and psychiatric disabilities, including mental illness, anxiety, and depression.
- Green is for sensory disabilities, including deafness, blindness, lack of smell, lack of taste, audio processing disorder, and all other sensory disabilities.
Today is the 34th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), legislation that protects people with disabilities against discrimination in the workplace and ensures equal access to public accommodations. GBH is proud of its long history of making media accessible to people with disabilities.
[The GBH logo is set on a soft black background, surrounded by stripes in the colors of the Disability Pride flag. The caption reads, “Celebrating Disability Pride”]
