Celebrate Pride Month With These Colorful Cocktails

Pride month is just around the corner. Welcome to a fun celebration of flavor and diversity! As we honor Pride Month, join us on a journey through a kaleidoscope of vibrant cocktails. Here each sip mirrors the multitude of identities and experiences that make our world so beautifully diverse. These cocktails aren’t just drinks; they’re expressions of love, and acceptance and deserve to be celebrated for who they are.

Whether you prefer a classic cocktail with a vibrant twist or an innovative creation that pushes the boundaries of mixology, this list promises something for every palate and preference.

Join us as we raise our glasses in solidarity and unity, toasting the past, present, and future of the LGBTQ+ community. Let’s celebrate love, pride, and the unbreakable spirit of inclusivity, one colorful cocktail at a time. 

Try The Best Colorful Cocktails This Pride Month

1. Butterfly Pea Magic Tea Cocktail
2. Queen Bee
3. Grasshopper
4. Pixy Dust Margarita
5. Gummy Bear Rainbow Cocktail
6. Naked And Famous
7. The Traditional Rainbow Cocktail

1. Butterfly Pea Magic Tea Cocktail

The beautiful violet and lemon gradient seems almost magical at first glance. It’s almost fictional. But we can assure you that this one is as real as anything. The Butterfly Pea Magic Tea Cocktail uses brewed butterfly pea tea paired with gin and lemon. This forms one of the most beautiful cocktails out there.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. vodka
• ½ oz. butterfly pea flower tea (brewed)
• 1 oz. elderflower liqueur
• 1 oz. lemon juice
• 1½ oz. seltzer water
• Lemon slice and lavender buds for garnish

How To Make Butterfly Tea Magic Pea Cocktail

1. In a cocktail shaker, add vodka, lime juice, elderflower liqueur, and ice. Shake well.
2. Add this into an ice-filled highball glass.
3. Then mix the seltzer water with butterfly pea flower tea and slowly pour on top of the mixture. This should create a gradient.
4. Garnish with a lemon slice and some lavender buds.

2. Queen Bee

This cocktail demands to be as glamorous as a drag queen. The Queen Bee cocktail is made with apple brandy (which has a very unique flavor) combined with honey and lemon verbena liqueur. It’s sweet and citrusy, perfect for the pride month celebrations. Why not go all out on this one and add some edible glitter to make it all the more exciting!

Ingredients

• 4 oz. gin (the citrusy the better)
• 1 ½ oz. lemon juice
• 1 oz. apple brandy
• 2 oz. lemon verbena liqueuer
• Edible flowers, lemon zest, rosemary sprigs for garnish

How To Make Queen Bee

1. In a cocktail shaker, add gin, lemon juice, apple brandy, and lemon verbena liqueur.
2. Shake gracefully.
3. Pour over ice and garnish with flowers, lemon zest, and rosemary sprigs.
4. Enjoy!

3. Grasshopper

The Grasshopper cocktail is the drink that certainly moves heads. Its bright green color cannot be missed. Made with heavier ingredients like crème de cacao and crème de menthe, this cocktail is soothing and accepting. And doesn’t this one remind you of someone?

We’re talking about Raj Koothrappali, who makes it abundantly clear that having a feminine side doesn’t make you any less of a man. In fact, the girls adore that side of him. So make this one for the character who taught us to accept ourselves.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. crème de cacao
• 1 ½ oz. crème de menthe
• 2 oz. heavy cream
• Shaved chocolate for garnish

How To Make Grasshopper

1. Mix crème de cacao, crème de menthe, heavy cream, and ice in a cocktail shaker.
2. Strain into a cocktail glass.
3. Add some garnish and serve.

4. Pixy Dust Margarita

Did you really think we wouldn’t include some pastel rainbow drinks? Well, you’re in luck if you love pastel colors as much as we do. Pixy Dust Margarita is made with citrus flavors and cotton candy garnish that will only provide some sugary goodness to the drink. Make this drink for your significant other and celebrate the dazzling relationship with a delicious cocktail.

Ingredients

• 1 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. Triple Sec
• ½  oz. margarita mix
• ½ oz. lime juice
• 1 cup water
• 4-8 Pixy Stix

How To Make Pixy Dust Margarita

1. Mix the tequila, Triple Sec, margarita mix, and lime juice. You can just stir it in a pot.
2. Then use a blender to blend this mixture, water, and ice.
3. Add some ice to a margarita glass, and pour the drink mixture over the ice.
4. Top with pixie dust from the Pixy Stix.

5. Gummy Bear Rainbow Cocktail

Why stop at one rainbow when you can have two? This Gummy Bear Rainbow Cocktail shows off its vibrant gradient in two ways — the colorful drink itself and the chain of gummy bears that make the perfect garnish. And do you know the best part? Even if the cocktail flavors mix together into one color, you still have the gummy bears to keep the rainbow flag flying high till the very end!  

Ingredients

Red Layer: 

• ½ oz. strawberry liqueur 
• ½ oz. raspberry liqueur 
• Splash of Grenadine  

Green Layer: 

• ½ oz. Apple Pucker 
• ½ oz. Peach Schnapps 
• 1 oz. lemonade 
• Splash of melon liquor  

Blue Layer: 

• ½ oz. Island Pucker 
• ½ oz. Blue Curacao 
• ½ oz. orange vodka 
• 1 oz. energy drink 

Garnish:

• Gummy bears of different colors

How To Make Gummy Bear Rainbow Cocktail

1. For each color, mix the respective ingredients and set aside. You should have three different colored mixtures.
2. In a highball glass, pour the red mixture, then the green, and finally the blue mixture. Make sure you do this slowly so it doesn’t mix.
3. Use a barbeque stick to arrange all the gummy bears in the order of a rainbow.
4. Place this stick on the rim.
5. Serve.

6. Naked And Famous

Naked and Famous is yet another cocktail that was first created in Death & Co., a renowned New York Based Bar. This cocktail may look simple but it oozes sweet, sour, and smoky flavors. With such vibrant flavor in the cocktail itself, there was never any doubt that it wasn’t going to be up on this list. Just like how Pride Month celebrates diversity, Naked And Famous pays its tribute with complex and powerful styles. 

Ingredients

• ¾ oz. mezcal
• ¾ oz. Aperol
• ¾ oz. yellow Chartreuse
• ¾ oz. lime juice
• Lemon wheel for garnish

How To Make Naked And Famous

1. In a cocktail shaker, mix all the ingredients with ice. The shaker should feel cold.
2. Pour the mixture into a highball glass.
3. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

7. The Traditional Rainbow Cocktail

Of course, we weren’t going to leave this one out. The Traditional Rainbow Cocktail is that drink that just had to be part of this list. One of the most popular and memorable cocktails, this drink shows off all its flavors in a perfect blend of colors. Not only does it showcase its individual flavors but also its unity in a glass, just like the LGBTQ+ community. 

Ingredients

• 4 oz. pineapple juice
• 2 oz. white or coconut rum
• 1 oz. water
• 1 oz. Grenadine
• 1 oz. Blue Curacao

How To Make Traditional Rainbow Cocktail

1. Pour grenadine syrup into a highball glass.
2. Fill the entire glass with ice.
3. In a separate cup, mix pineapple juice and rum.
4. In another cup, mix water and blue curacao.
5. Pour the pineapple juice/rum mixture into the glass with the grenadine syrup. Make sure you do this slowly.
6. Then pour the blue curacao mixture into the glass on top of that. Use a spoon to guide the speed of the pour.
7. Garnish with an umbrella.

Summing Up

As Pride Month celebrations continue to evolve, the spectrum of colorful cocktails offers a delicious way to honor and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. From the bold hues to the diverse flavors, each cocktail represents a unique expression of pride, acceptance, and unity. Whether raising a glass in solidarity or simply indulging in the joyous festivities, these cocktails serve as a reminder that love knows no bounds and that every color of the rainbow is worth celebrating. Cheers to Pride Month!

FAQs

What Are Pride Drinks?

Pride drinks are those drinks that resonate with the LGBTQA+ community. These cocktails are colorful and fuzzy and show off their individuality and presence. Rainbow cocktails are a go-to since they depict the rainbow flag and offer acceptance towards the community.

What Is Pride Month Basics?

Pride month is the time to celebrate diversity and individuality. Do this with some colorful cocktails as you celebrate with your friends.

What Drinks To Drink The Rainbow?

You can do this two ways – make different drinks for each color or make one multi-colored drink. Here’s a quick suggestion for the individual colored ones – violet: butterfly pea magic cocktail; blue: blue lagoon; yellow: bee’s knees; green: grasshopper; orange: screwdriver; pink: cosmopolitan.

How To Make A Multi-Color Cocktail?

To make a multi-colored cocktail, you first need to choose 3-4 complementary and colorful flavors. Pineapple juice, white or coconut rum, Grenadine, and Blue Curacao mostly cover all the colors. Pour each of these in the order of a rainbow, to form this multi-color cocktail. Make sure you pour slowly so it doesn’t mix.