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'Twas the Night Before Pride by Joanna McClintick

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'Twas the Night Before Pride

by Joanna McClintick

Narrator Vikas Adam

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Length 7 minutes

Language English

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On the night before Pride, families everywhere are preparing to partake. As one family packs snacks and makes signs, an older sibling shares the importance of the march with the newest member of the family. Reflecting on the day, the siblings agree that the best thing about Pride is getting to be yourself. This joyful homage to a day of community and inclusion—and to the joys of anticipation—is also a comprehensive history. With lyrical, age-appropriate rhymes modeled on “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” it tackles difficult content such as the Stonewall Riots and the AIDS marches.

Children's LGBTQIA+ Fiction

Joanna McClintick is a children's book author and a licensed social worker at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center in Manhattan. When she was dreaming about building her family, she wrote this poem to honor Pride's history of resistance and imagined sharing it with her future child one day. It has become a tradition to read it at their annual brunch the day before the Pride March with family and friends. She lives with her wife and child in Brooklyn.

Vikas Adam is the acclaimed narrator of over two hundred audiobooks in a wide range of genres. An inaugural inductee into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame, he has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including Earphones, Audies, and various Best of the Year lists. A classically trained actor with stage, film, commercial, and television credits, he is also a lecturer in the UCLA Theater Department.