Disability Pride Month

We celebrate Disability Pride Month every July. It’s an important moment for disabled people to come together as a community. An opportunity to share experiences and start conversations.

It’s a celebration of the creativity, resilience, and achievements of disabled people.

Disability Pride Month is for anyone who is disabled – or anyone who wishes to show their allyship by celebrating their disabled communities, like businesses.

It's a time for embracing disability identity positively. And challenging the negative attitudes that hold disabled people back. 

Where did Disability Pride Month come from?

Disability Pride Month began in Boston, USA, in 1990 – the same year the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. Since then, it’s grown into a global movement. Scope has proudly supported the growth of Disability Pride Month in the UK since 2009.

Is it the same as LGBTQ+ Pride?

No. Disability Pride is a separate celebration, focused on disability identity and rights. Some people identify with both communities and both movements are about visibility, inclusion, and challenging negative attitudes.

Why does Disability Pride matter?

Because disabled people still face unfair treatment and harmful stereotypes.

3 in 4 disabled people say they’ve experienced negative attitudes.

Disability Pride helps change the conversation. It’s a chance to speak up, be proud, and create change.

The Disability Pride Flag was designed by Ann Magill. The rainbow of colours on the disability pride flag represents the various experiences and needs within the disabled community. Such as non-visible, sensory, physical, developmental and mental impairments and conditions.

The banded arrangement of the colours represents the barriers many disabled people face and have to navigate through.

This is what each colour represents:

Red

Physical impairments and conditions

Gold

Neurodiversity

White

Non-visible and undiagnosed impairments and conditions

Blue

Emotional and psychiatric conditions, including mental health, anxiety and depression

Green

Hearing impaired, vision impaired, audio processing and all other sensory impairments and conditions

Charcoal

The charcoal background is to represent people in the community who have experienced ableism, and to protest against this

We’re proud to be working with a growing community of organisations that are supporting Scope to celebrate Disability Pride Month.

These partners helped to raise awareness, amplify disabled voices, and champion equality and inclusion in the workplace and beyond. 

Together, we’re creating a society where disabled people have the same opportunities as everyone else, and we’re just getting started. 

Thank you to all the businesses that are showing their support and driving real change. 

Please join us to continue to raise awareness and raise money in Disability Pride Month 2026. To find out more contact us at partnerships@scope.org.uk