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Happy Springtime | Vernal Equinox

I Feel So Much Spring: Boston Gay Men's Chorus
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Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
It Might As Well Be Spring

Queer as Springtime

"Let's sing a gay little spring song."

-Larry Morey

“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves.

Now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.”
-Virgil

"What frolicks are here, so droll and so queer, how joyful appeareth the day.
Even bunter and bawd unite to applaud, and celebrate the first of the May."
-Song-Chant, circa 1770

"Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear.

And plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you."
W. E . Johns

Don Your Easter Bonnet... Do the Bunny Hop...

Spring is a time when flowers bloom and trees begin to grow and reproduce. The days grow longer and the temperature in most areas becomes more temperate. You can also contemplate the melting of ice and thawing of the ground. It's the time of year when everything in nature is changing and promising new life and new hope. After the long, dark, winter months, spring is literally a breath of fresh air. And as the days get longer, the nights get shorter, and it starts to feel warmer, nature responds in a big way. It is a time of rebirth and renewal.

Spring ushers in the seasonal celebrations of such holidays as Vernal Equinox, St Patrick's Day, Easter, Passover, Holi, Mardi Gras, Cinqo de Mayo, Purim, May Day, the Festival of Flora, and Ostara. This is the season of tulip festivals and cherry blossom festivals. It's the time for spring breaks, spring festivals, spring flings, and spring galas. It is the time to dance around the May pole and ceremoniously twist ribbons of colorful cloth. It's time to decorate eggs and fill your Easter basket with goodies. It's time to don your Easter bonnet and do the bunny hop.

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Happy Mardi Gras

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One of the big Easter events in the LGBTQ community is the Annual Gay Easter Parade! It was started in 2000 in New Orleans, Louisiana as a fun way to showcase the fashion and creativity of the LGBTQ community “with ladies in gowns or summer suits with Easter Hats and gentlemen in summer suits or tuxedos.” It’s meant to be a fun cultural event the whole family can attend regardless of whether or not you identify as LGBTQ.

It is also the typical time of year for the LGBTQ community to come out and have fun. Spring events with queer themes might include weddings, film festivals, brunches, dance parties, picnics, parades, outdoor concerts, street markets, and outdoor art shows. It's a great time for running, walking, hiking, cycling and field days for fundraising or just for fun. It's time for drag queen story time and gay men's chorus concerts. And it's also the time for queer prom.

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'”
-Robin Williams

"We roamed the fields and river sides,
When we are young and gay;
We chased the bees and plucked the flowers,
In the merry, merry month of May."
-Stephen Foster

"It’s May! It’s May! The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray.
It’s here! It’s here! That shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear!
That darling month when everyone throws self-control away.
It's wild! It's gay! A month of dismay!

It’s May! It’s May! That gorgeous holiday
It’s mad! It’s gay! A libelous display!

Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks.
Everyone makes divine mistakes! The lusty month of May!

It’s time to do a wretched thing or two, and try to make each precious day
One you’ll always rue! It’s May! It’s May!
It’s wild! It’s gay! Depraved in every way!"

-Alan Jay Lerner, Camelot

Beltane Ritual

Lusty Month of May

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Gay Springtime Comes to New York City

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Bloom by Troye Sivan

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Loveable Springtime

“April comes like an idiot, babbling and spewing flowers.”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes, and a laugh in her voice."
-Hal Borland

Summer, winter, and fall may have their fans, but spring is clearly the most lovable of the four seasons. There are some perfectly good reasons why spring is so delightful.

Spring marks the end of blistering winter and the transitional period to scorching summer. In many places, the season brings mild temperatures in the 60s and 70s.People tend to be most comfortable at such temperatures. So the arrival of spring means you can finally ditch the heavy winter layers and still be comfortable.

Following the spring equinox, days begin lasting longer and nights get shorter. Daylight Saving Time, which moves the clock forward starting in March, gives you even more light hours to get things done. Those extra hours of sun can be a major mood-booster. We know that the longer the sun is up during the day, the less mental distress people experience.

There is no better indicator of spring than birds chirping outside your window. Their northward migration can start as early as mid-February and last into June, meaning that throughout the spring, you can expect to see a major avian influx.

Warmer temperatures mean you can spend more time outside, which is great for mental health. You can get back to taking walks in nature, enjoying the great outdoors, and breathing in the fresh air.

Temperate weather makes it easier to get the fresh air you need. You can open your windows and let in the breeze. Spring brings the perfect opportunity to throw open those windows and doors and get the air moving again.

Bloom by Troye Sivan

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Bambi: April Showers

It Might As Well Be Spring

Look at You Now by Malinda

Purim: The Queerest Jewish Spring Holiday

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Season of Gay Awakening

Celebrating Spring in the LGBTQ Community

Spring is a season of renewal, growth, and vibrant transformation, and for many in the LGBTQ community, it holds a special significance. The arrival of spring symbolizes not only a fresh start for nature but also a time to celebrate individuality, authenticity, and love in its many forms. For LGBTQ individuals, spring offers a space to honor both personal journeys and the collective progress of the community.

One of the most poignant ways the queer community celebrates spring is through Pride events, which often take place during the warmer months. Though LGBTQ Pride celebrations occur throughout the year, the spirit of spring infuses these events with a unique energy. In many existentially important ways, Pride events are the ultimate Spring Fest!

As flowers bloom and the weather turns bright and warm, Pride marches, festivals, and gatherings become an opportunity for visibility, unity, and joy. It is a time for LGBTQ individuals to proudly embrace who they are and express their identities without fear or shame. The rainbow is an during symbol of spring as it is a key symbol of the queer community. The rainbow flag waves proudly in springtime celebrations, representing the spectrum of sexualities and gender identities within the community.

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Lucky by Malinda (at the Queer Irish Pub)
Happy Mardi Gras

"April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year."
-Vita Sackville-West

Spring also provides an opportunity for reflection and growth, both personally and within the community. As nature awakens, so too does the spirit of change. Springtime encourages LGBTQ individuals to shed the weight of past struggles, celebrate victories, and look forward to the future. It is a reminder that, like nature, the community continues to evolve—embracing new conversations about gender fluidity, intersectionality, and mental health awareness.

Furthermore, spring invites people to connect with one another. Just as trees and flowers blossom and thrive in collaboration with the earth, the LGBTQ community thrives through support and solidarity. Spring brings people together to engage in conversations about justice, equality, and acceptance, while also fostering creativity through art, music, and social activism.

Spring holds deep meaning for the queer community. It represents not only a season of growth and renewal but also a time to come together in celebration of love, identity, and belonging. Through Pride celebrations, personal reflection, and communal unity, spring reminds the LGBTQ+ community of the beauty of individuality and the power of collective resilience.

Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song

Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations

Christopher Macken - Happy Easter

Not So Bad by Malinda
Church Holds Easter Drag Service to Stand Up Against Anti-Trans Bills
I Wish I Were a Fairy
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
Lusty Month of May
Happy St. Patrick's Day

Irish People and Trans People
Easter Service for LGBTQ Christians in Social Distancing Era

Garden Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations

Happy Mardi Gras

Queering St. Patrick's Day

"When Irish hearts are happy, all the world seems bright and gay.

And when Irish eyes are smiling, sure, they steal your heart away."
-Bing Crosby

St. Patrick’s Day is an opportunity for Irish (and really any) Queers to celebrate. But the holiday also recognizes the discrimination many from the Emerald Isle experienced as marginalized immigrants. Although LGBTQ communities have been left out of the festivities in the past (New York City and Boston parades only recently allowed them to march with their banners) these groups have played an important role in St. Patrick’s Day Parades since the 1990s.

City groups have begun to realize that members of the Irish and LGBTQ communities have a lot in common. Cities with large Irish populations (like Boston, New York, and Chicago) have admitted, “We’re a city of cultures, and the LGBTQ community is a part of it.” Recognizing this intersectionality (as well as a chance to party) clubs, restaurants and bars throughout major cities are honoring Queer and Irish Pride together.

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Bambi: April Showers

Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Lusty Month of May

Happy St. Patrick's Day

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Garden Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations

Christopher Macken - Happy Easter

Springtime Quotes and Poetry

“The sun does arise. And make happy the skies. The merry bells ring To welcome the spring.”
-William Blake

“In just spring, when the world is mudluscious, the little lame balloon man whistles far and wee, and eddie and bill come running from marbles and piracies, and it's spring. When the world is puddle wonderful, the queer old balloon man whistles far and wee, and betty and isbel come dancing from hopscotch and jumprope, and it's spring. And the goat footed balloon man whistles far and wee.”
-E. E. Cummings

“The month of May has come, when every lusty heart begins to blossom.”
-Sir Thomas Mallory

Lusty Month of May

Lucky by Malinda (at the Queer Irish Pub)
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I Wish I Were a Fairy

I Feel So Much Spring: Boston Gay Men's Chorus
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“Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. And I say it's alright. Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here. Little darling, the smiles are returning to their faces. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. And I say it's alright. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes.”
-George Harrison

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
-William Shakespeare

“We'veplodded through a weird and weary time called winter by the calendar alone. We have beheld an earth pool-deep in slime. Image a heaven of stone. We've found life hid between the folds of mire, sensed life in every place, heard life in tune. The earth shell cracks with underneath desire. Spring crawls from the cocoon. Her puny wings vibrate with will to grow. She clings, expanding like an opening eye, more large, more able, more developed. Lo, the perfect butterfly.”
-E. E. Cummings

Lusty Month of May

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Gay Springtime Comes to New York City
Springtime in Arkansas: Gay Friendly Town in Rural America

Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans

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Happy Mardi Gras

It Might As Well Be Spring
Pot of Gold at the End of the...

“Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring, in triumph to the world, the youthful spring.”
-Thomas Nashe

“Spring is like a perhaps hand, which comes carefully out of nowhere, arranging a window into which people look, while people stare, arranging and changing, placing carefully there a strange thing, and a known thing here, and changing everything carefully. Spring is like a perhaps hand in a window, carefully to and fro, moving new and old things, while people stare carefully, moving a perhaps fraction of a flower here, placing an inch of air there, and without breaking anything.”
-E. E. Cummings

Christopher Macken - Happy Easter

Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song

New Orleans: Annual Gay Easter Parade

Bambi: April Showers

Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Lusty Month of May

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Garden Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations

"Oh how I love the springtime gay that brings the leaves and flowers out!
As much to hear the merry way of birds who throw their song about, to echo through the glen.
So much I love a meadow fair festooned with tents whose banners flare.
And oh, what rapture then, when ranks up on that field prepare,
each armored knight upon his mare."

-Bertran de Born

“For winter's rains and ruins are over, and all the season of snows and sins. The days dividing lover and lover, the light that loses, the night that wins. And time remembered is grief forgotten, and frosts are slain and flowers begotten, and in green under wood and cover, blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
-Algernon Charles Swinburne

"O sweet spontaneous earth, how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee, has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty, how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees, squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods, but true to the incomparable couch of death, thy rhythmic lover, thou answerest them only with spring."
-E. E. Cummings

“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.”
-Madeleine M. Kunin

“And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere. And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Bloom by Troye Sivan

Spring: Short LGBTQ Film
Gay Springtime Comes to Philadelphia
Jazz Trio: It Might As Well Be Spring
Mental Floss: Spring is the Most Delightful Season

Christopher Macken - Happy Easter

Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song

I Wish I Were a Fairy

Look at You Now by Malinda

Spring Themes and the LGBTQ Experience

What themes are found in the symbols of the spring season that resonate with the LGBTQ community?

Spring lore and traditions center on metamorphosis, emergence, creativity, and the defiance of winter, offering a natural mirror for the LGBTQ experience. Across various cultures and mythologies, three primary themes resonate deeply:

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The Power of "Coming Out" (Emergence)

Just as spring is defined by the vernal equinox (the moment light overcomes darkness) the season serves as a metaphor for visibility. In nature, seeds that have been dormant underground "break through" the surface. This mirrors the process of coming out: a transition from a hidden, protective state into an environment where one can finally be seen and grow. The courage required for a flower to bloom despite the lingering cold reflects the resilience required to live authentically in a society that may still feel chilly or inhospitable.

Transformation and Rebirth

Spring is the season of transition. In Greek mythology, the return of Persephone from the underworld symbolizes a shift in state and identity. For the transgender and non-binary community, this theme of metamorphosis is particularly poignant. Spring suggests that change is not only natural but necessary for life to continue. It validates the idea that identity is not static; we are allowed to shed "old skins" and evolve into more vibrant versions of ourselves.

Exploring The Symbolism of Spring: The Season of Renewal and Rebirth

Mental Floss: Spring is the Most Delightful Season

Spring Equinox Rituals That Celebrate Renewal
Garden Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations

Subverting the "Natural" Binary

While often associated with traditional fertility, spring lore also celebrates the blurring of boundaries. Many ancient spring festivals honored deities who transcended gender norms. For example, the festival of the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis involved "Galli" priests who challenged the gender binary of their time.

Furthermore, nature in spring reveals that "natural" is incredibly diverse—from hermaphroditic plants to varied mating patterns in the animal kingdom—affirming that queer identities are an integral part of the earth’s blooming tapestry.

Ultimately, spring traditions teach us that renewal is a cycle, not a one-time event. Each year, the earth insists on being its most colorful, diverse self, providing a profound spiritual blueprint for LGBTQ pride, creativity, and self-actualization.

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Happy Mardi Gras

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Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
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Happy St. Patrick's Day

Lucky by Malinda (at the Queer Irish Pub)
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Purim: Springtime Fun for Jewish Folks

With Elements of Mardi Gras and Rocky Horror Picture Show

Purim is a Jewish holiday celebrated annually in the Spring (March). It commemorates the saving of the Jewish people by Queen Esther from annihilation at the hands of a villainous Persian official named Haman, as it is recounted in the Book of Esther.

According to the Scroll of Esther, Purim is a time of feasting and gladness, exchanging gifts of food and drink, eating Hamantaschen cookies, and donating charity to the poor. Purim customs also include eating a celebratory meal and drinking lots of wine. In Sephardic and Mizrahi traditions, the applying of henna is included.

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The fun side of the Purim event includes wearing masks and costumes, public celebrations, and parades. This part of the holiday has the feel of Mardi Gras. The masquerade element of Purim has become an enduring symbol of this springtime Jewish holiday.

The public recitation of the Scroll of Esther (Reading of the Megillah) is a key part of the holy day and tends to be very noisy and disruptive. The reading of story involves audience participation (kind of like Rocky Horror Picture Show). As the historical legend is read aloud, the congregation interrupts the narrative and engages in noise-making whenever the name of the villain (Haman) is mentioned, which occurs 54 times. This is done to symbolically blot out Haman's name, as a way of booing the bad guy. It is typically done by shouting, banging, foot stomping, and the spinning of groggers (ratchets). You can imagine that there are often uproarious excesses (especially from the children) as the congregation raises a ruckus.

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Not So Bad by Malinda
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Queers Owe Our Spring to Our Ancestors

Queers owe our Spring to our ancestors. The Radical Faeries, Lavender Menace, Pansies, Friends of Dorothy, Dandies, Clones and Queens. Names always changing insult into revolution.

The ones who turned a pink triangle into a compass. Leather into armor, pamphlets into bibles, riots into parades. Heart medication into poppers, like water into wine. Electroshock and chemical castration into new pronouns and hormones. Their conversion therapy into our transitions. Mug shots in newspapers so we could be plastered on ads. Bartending mob speakeasies so we could stare at our phones in glistening bars.

Evicted on the same streets we celebrate Supreme Court victories. Necks under the boots of AIDS so we can hold our heads high. The fascism of their everyday into our freedom. Their sacrifices are our generational wealth. Their alchemy is our inheritance.

[Source: Leo Herrera]

Lusty Month of May

Gay Springtime Comes to New Orleans
I Feel So Much Spring: Boston Gay Men's Chorus

I Wish I Were a Fairy

Look at You Now by Malinda

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Gay Springtime Comes to New York City
Springtime in Arkansas: Gay Friendly Town in Rural America

Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
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Easter for LGBTQ Christians

Easter Message Resonates with LGBTQ Community

Churches across Christendom celebrate the core tenets of Christianity during the Easter season. But the Easter message is especially poignant for the LGBTQ community. Inclusive faith-based communities serve their congregations well by connecting the story of Jesus’ passion and resurrection to the shared life-journey of their gay church members. The heart of the Easter message is one of hope and “new life” in the face of betrayal, rejection and death. Inclusive congregations embrace their gay and lesbian brothers and sisters as both gift and task and this is the first step in realizing the “new life” reflected from that first Easter.

The events leading up to Jesus’ death resonate personally for the gay community on many levels. Gay and lesbian church members identify closely with the betrayal experienced by Jesus. Religious authorities rejected his teaching of inclusivity: dining with sinners, engaging Samaritan outcasts and challenging the self-importance of the Pharisee insiders of the religious establishment of his day. The religious peers of Jesus did not want to accept the spiritual thread he taught, establishing a common bond of brother/sisterhood that requires the response to treat others as one wished to be treated. Finally, expanding the universal invitation of God’s salvation beyond the religious elites was just too much to bear.

Christopher Macken - Happy Easter

New Orleans: Annual Gay Easter Parade

Bambi: April Showers

Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations

Happy Mardi Gras

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Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
Lusty Month of May

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Lucky by Malinda (at the Queer Irish Pub)
Garden Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations

Easter Message Compares Treatment of Gay People with Crucifixion of Christ

And so, among many unwelcoming faith communities, it is an absurdity, if not an abomination, to welcome lesbian and gay people fully as equal recipients of God’s grace and salvation. Failing to recognize that they are made in the image of God is a rejection at the very spiritual core. Identifying with the rejection inflicted on Jesus, the gay community experiences rejection of their loving relationships through the establishment of the Defense of Marriage Act; they are confronted with injustice in the workplace that could be safeguarded through the enactment of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act; as Jesus was brutalized during his scourging and crucifixion, gays and lesbians are taunted, bullied, bashed and murdered for who they are. For some gay teens, this rejection is beyond reconciliation and leads to suicide.

But the final vindication is in the Easter message. Jesus’ resurrection is more than just rising from the dead. It is a radical “new life” that is offered to all: straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. The Easter mystery is the vindication of the life and teaching of Jesus; that God’s invitation is freely bestowed on all. The gift for inclusive churches is their ability to embrace this “new life” through the acceptance of their gay children. The task remains incomplete until all Christian churches are truly welcoming and inclusive.

[Source: John Lazar, Washington Blade, April 2011]

Beltane Ritual

Christopher Macken - Happy Easter

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Spring: Short LGBTQ Film
New Orleans: Annual Gay Easter Parade

Lusty Month of May

Gay Springtime Comes to Philadelphia

I Wish I Were a Fairy

Jazz Trio: It Might As Well Be Spring
Bloom by Troye Sivan

Mental Floss: Spring is the Most Delightful Season
Bambi: April Showers

Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song

Happy Mardi Gras

Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Happy St. Patrick's Day

Earth's Holidays: Celebration of the Seasons

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