Prague Pride
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month back home in the United States, but here in the Czech Republic, they don't celebrate it until August. Some of our students were bummed that we were missing out, so we decided to hold our own CIEE Prague Pride celebration!
We met in one of the common rooms in our dormitory to talk about what Pride Month means to us back home in our local communities as well as here in Prague. Under both Nazi and communist occupation, LGBTQ+ people were treated as criminals and sentenced to prison, hard labor, or even death. Since the middle of the 20th century, however, the Czech Republic has led the way in Central Europe for this area of human rights.
After our discussion, we travelled to a 110-year-old movie theater, the Kino Lucerna, to watch Love, Simon -- with Czech subtitles! Global Navigators laughed, cried, and laughed some more. We're grateful to be visiting in a time and place where so much progress has been made, and we're looking forward to even more recognition for LGBTQ+ rights in the future.
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