But as a member of the gay community, I think we ought to have a reckoning over why kink is conflated with LGBT pride at all. The two things really have nothing to do with each other.

Rainbow flags, a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and queer pride outside the Stonewall Monument in New York City on June 7, 2022. An image on the U.S. Air Force website of a ...

As June arrives, the question this year is not which companies will give their logos a rainbow refresh to commemorate LGBT Pride Month, but how much they’ll try to outdo each other in the process.

The “Gay Pride” candle offers up a whiff of “ozone,” which Mr. Dockal, 30, described as an airy odor. Ingrid Nilsen, co-founder and chief creative officer of the New Savant, ...