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June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Create art supporting equal rights and submit it with the tag #TheArcIsLong to get a new profile badge! “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Recognition and celebration of the LGBTQ+ community happens in many countries around the globe at different times. In the United States, June is recognized as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and in the wake of a tumultuous year where the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ people around the world has been threatened, DeviantArt’s focus for this month is on the long-standing tradition of art as a political statement to benefit the equal rights movement. Art as Political Statement Art has always served to speak to social messages and current events, especially within the equal rights movement. In the 1980s in particular, art became an important, functional means for activists to protest the US government’s deliberate ignorance of the AIDS crisis