Overview
About the event
Disability Pride Month is observed annually to promote visibility and public awareness about the positive pride that people within the disability community feel.
Getting its start only one day back in 1990, the roots of Disability Pride Month started the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed by President George H.W. Bush as one of the world�??s first comprehensive civil rights laws for people who have disabilities.
On October 6 of that same year, the first Disability Pride Day was celebrated in the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2015, for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ADA, the event was stretched out to include all thirty-one days of July, celebrating the first Disability Pride Month. That year, New York City hosted its first Disability Pride Month parade, which has continued annually ever since.
This event is now celebrated all over the world with different gatherings, educational events, activities, parades, and much more.
Getting its start only one day back in 1990, the roots of Disability Pride Month started the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed by President George H.W. Bush as one of the world�??s first comprehensive civil rights laws for people who have disabilities.
On October 6 of that same year, the first Disability Pride Day was celebrated in the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2015, for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ADA, the event was stretched out to include all thirty-one days of July, celebrating the first Disability Pride Month. That year, New York City hosted its first Disability Pride Month parade, which has continued annually ever since.
This event is now celebrated all over the world with different gatherings, educational events, activities, parades, and much more.
