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What better way to celebrate Pride from the socially-distanced comfort of your own home than filling your timeline with some of the best LGBTQ+ Instagram accounts?

From documenting transition journeys to creating safe spaces for open dialogues around sexuality and gender, these are our favourite pride-filled LGBTQ+ Instagram accounts to inform, inspire and entertain..

Tanya Compas

20.1k followers
Tanya is an award-Winning Youth Worker and has been recognised as one of the UK’s top 100 most inspiring women. Tanya is also head of youth engagement for @UKBlackpride, an organisation celebrating LGBTQI people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American descent.

Jessamyn Stanley

432k followers
Jessamyn is a yoga teacher who leads classes all over the world, documenting her experience and giving advice on her Instagram. But it's her empowering captions about body liberation that make her one of our favourite accounts to follow, for instance: "I both have fat and I AM fat. Being fat is part of who I am. It is part of my identity. I cannot be #bodyneutral. My body has been politicized since the moment I got here and it is my responsibility to own every inch of it. Even the bad parts. Even the hard parts. ESPECIALLY THE BAD AND HARD PARTS."

Jake Graf

89.9k followers
Jake is a transgender actor, writer, and director specialising in short films dealing with transgender issues in an effort to normalise queer and trans experiences to a wider, more mainstream audience. He is also a patron of @mermaidsgender, a UK charity supporting transgender and gender variant children and their families.

Sade Giliberti

51.3k followers
Sade is a television presenter, actress and model from South Africa who uses her Instagram to talk about diversity and representation in the media, as well as tackling cyberbullying in the LGTBQ+ community with the #HaltTheHate campaign.

Munroe Bergdorf

389k followers
Munroe is a DJ and transgender activist, using Instagram to document her transition and experience as a black woman, finding support finding support on Instagram from the trans and wider community. In 2016, she was voted the third most influential LGBTQIA+ person in the UK.

Josh McKenna

17.3k followers
London based illustrator Josh uses his talents and Instagram page to elevate awareness around the LGBTQ community. His illustrations are unique in their style, and have attracted the attention of a number of brands and media, including Google, Soho House and Vogue.

Ericka Hart

@382k followers
For educational content around sexuality, race, sex, gender and health, make sure to click follow on Ericka's page. She's 'a black queer non binary femme' and a breast cancer survivor who proudly shows her mastectomy scars and creates an open and honest dialogue about her experience. There's tons of beautiful photoshoots and interiors inspo, too.

Amelia

837 followers
Amelia is a 22 year old from London. She’s a bisexual artist who works as a curator at @risenzine. Amelia speaks about her struggles with mental health issues and how finding a community at Rise has helped her find a safe space with like-minded people.

Char Ellesse

49.1k followers
Not only will Char Ellesse fill your feed with fresh, bold make-up inspiration (seriously, that winged eyeliner), but she's also on a mission to challenge gender norms and binary labels through her platform 'Girls Will Be Boys'.

Ari Fitz

26.5k followers
We came for the fashion inspo, we stayed for their infectious positivity and good vibes. Ari is a non-binary and polyamorous ASOS insider who we would like to be BFFs with, please.

Teddy Edwardes

49.6k followers
Founder of Lick Events, Teddy is a must-follow for her honest conversations about mental health as well as her dreamy travel snaps.

Charlie T Craggs

21.7k followers
Charlie is the ward-winning author of To My Trans Sisters and founder of Nail Transphobia, which sees her travel the country with her pop-up nail salon offering the public free manicures for the chance to sit down with a trans person, to help dispel common myths and judgements. She recently made it onto the Independent's 'Rainbow List', named as the 40th most influential LGBTI person in the UK.

Jamie Windust

41.6k followers
Jamie is an award-winning writer, editor, speaker and model, and their make-up skills are some of the best we think we've ever seen. How drop-dead beautiful is this?!

Jacinda Leelo

57.9k followers
A powerful voice on sociocultural and politics issues, from Black Lives Matter to body positivity, @adultsdrink is also a page bursting with innovative and colourful make-up and fashion inspiration.

Damian Alexander

13k followers
Author and illustrator Damian's feed is full of incredible artwork that also has an important message. "I'd like to inspire people to be authentic and open about who they are, especially younger LGBTQ people just starting to figure themselves out," Damien says. "My goal has always been to be the voice I wish I could have heard growing up."

AC Dumlao

10.8k followers
AC is an activist and educator whose Instagram is full of fashion inspiration as well as mental health talk and vitally important, informative content. "When I was a child, society taught me to be racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, & more," they write in one post. "As I got older I learned this was wrong (& came out!). As an adult, I’m called out & called in. I listen & learn. And unlearn. I’ve changed & grown. Growth > consistency."

Sadé & Sam

3.7k followers
Fed up of seeing travel couple content dominated by straight white people? Introducing Sadé & Sam, whose breathtaking photos of their adventures bring some much-needed joy to our feeds every time they post. We can't wait to see where they go next.

Devin-Norelle

31.8k followers
Model and writer Devin-Norelle is a fierce advocate for trans rights and visibility. Ze was the first masc model to walk for Chromat at New York Fashion Week in 2019, writing in one post: "There are countless times casting directors have told me no, or haven't said anything at all, just left me hanging. My own parent has told me I'd be nothing because "reality check" my transness meant I'd be deemed an outcast. Today I'm celebrating me and my chest full of scars on an official NYFW runway. And I'm sure this is the first of many. So...I don't know who needs to hear this but... If at first you don't succeed, keep. fucking. trying. You are a star."

Gabrielle Richardson

155k followers
Gabrielle is a curator for the 'Art Hoe Collective', launched by queer black people to showcase their creativity. We can't get enough of her style, but it's not solely about the fashion. Gabrielle summed it up perfectly in a recent post: "using my instagram to archive every version of myself and my personal definitions of black joy".

Jaimie Wilson

442k followers
Jaimie is a transgender musician who uses Instagram to document his journey as he transitions from female to male. He has embraced the vocal changes that come with the transition through his music.

Shanée Benjamin

14.7k followers

We are seriously in love with Shanée's work which is a celebration of black queer love (and features a lot of houseplants). She's an art director and illustrator based in Brooklyn, and her feed is guaranteed to make your day that little bit brighter. Her prints are super affordable, too.

@poeticdrugs

133k followers
The self-proclaimed 'king of highlighter' will inject some bright, fierce, downright masterful beauty looks into your timeline.

Lottie L’Amour

18.6k followers
Lottie is a plus-size fashion, beauty and body positivity blogger using her platform to discuss all things body positivity, self-expression and non-conformity.

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