By Christopher Stanley / * Inglés y español | LAKELAND, Ga. – PRIDE is a celebration of Equal Rights for LGBTQIA+ people. L. Craig Schoonmaker, an activist and organizer for early gay pride movement, stated “not everyone has power but everyone can have PRIDE”. If you did not know PRIDE is an acronym, Personal Right In Defense and Education. This is why everyone can have PRIDE. PRIDE will always be around even if its only the LGBTQIA+ Celebrating it themselves.