Through events and demonstrations, Mad Pride informs the public of the struggle mental patients have faced and continue to face today. Modeled on movements such as Gay Pride and Black Pride, Mad Pride is considered the next great civil movement of the twenty-first century. The crazy movement has already started to expand across the world, with events occurring in over seven countries including Australia, South Africa and Canada. Activists join forces to educate the public that people suffering from mental illnesses are simply normal people and deserve to be treated as such. Negative portrayals of mental patients in the media are false, and the Mad Pride Movement backs that claim. Millions of individuals today live with some form of mental health disorder and everyone, at some point in their lives, will come into contact with an individual with a mental disorder. (Fast Facts about Mental Illness - Canadian Mental Health Association) The goal of the Mad Pride Movement is to educate people to treat mental patients with respect, fight for mental health rights, defy the odds, and empower mad communities. (The crazy pride