One friend disagreed: “Maybe I don’t want my family to actively know that I’m in all of these things because they’re just gonna-they’re not gonna like it.”Īs a rare commodity, the Pride reaction has attracted a rainbow hunt among Facebook users. “Why don’t they have it, too?” he asked, referring to friends sitting with him in a salon in the larger, less-prominent California city. Yet Berri, a 21-year-old transgender artist, is conflicted over the fact that not everyone can use this new rainbow button.īack in Fresno, Berri wondered how Facebook decides who’s eligible. Throughout June, the platform is offering a rainbow flag alongside likes, hearts, and angry faces that people can click on to react to others’ posts and comments. Berri also talked about the experience on Facebook, reading and reacting to other people’s posts with thumbs-up likes and Facebook’s new rainbow “Pride” emoji. James Berri traveled three hours to Sacramento earlier this month for his first Pride parade, one of hundreds of annual LGBTQ celebrations across America.
