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Make sure you support your pride
3 years ago
For those that weren't aware, it's pride month.
So I kinda wanted to talk about pride for me, cause there's a lot of hate and push-back out there and it's not ok.
I grew up in a traditionally conservative, southern, methodist, close minded home. As a kid I only had that view around me and LGBT+ was not something I saw in my hometown, if it was it was "weird" and instantly got treated like an assault. So I ate it up and believed that my parents and mentors were right, I didn't question because that was dangerous, it could "lead me down a bad path". As an adult I joined into careers and groups that shared these same views, do I continued to hold them as "right".
They are not right.
I always felt "weird" while I didn't feel gay I had some feelings that I fully did not understand, and refused to believe were real, fought back against. It was 2020 before I started to embrace them, I had some really good friends who asked me important questions and made me see that weird is ok. I experimented and decided to be more welcoming and supportive of others around me. I found that when I let my barrier down I could love and actively enjoyed the way of life I so actively avoided before. It felt good to love, it felt good to accept.
I came out to my dad who I hardly grew up with a few weeks ago, so worried that he would not accept, but I needed to do it. To my surprise he was so supportive and welcoming of me that I was blown away. I have cut my mother and step-dad and all of my former mentors out of my life because they would not accept me. I am better for this.
In the world we have a lot of violent and terrible people, and they want to tell people that their way is wrong, "don't love, don't accept"
I'm here to say I am a better person because the LGBT+ community, thank you all for helping me grow and prosper, and if anyone ever tells you that you are not valid, they are wrong. You deserve to be able to stand up and show your pride, and if someone doesn't want to be here for that, they can be left behind.
Pride for me is the progress that we make together, the ability to, against all the hate, continue to love. If you have anyone in your life that you need to tell, tell them, they may be supportive or you will be able to have all of us here to support you.
Please show your pride, don't feel like you have to hide, I hope that if I can completely change my way of viewing the world and overcome the fear of being able to say "I'm weird and that is ok, walk with me or don't" that it will give courage and strength to those who need it
So I kinda wanted to talk about pride for me, cause there's a lot of hate and push-back out there and it's not ok.
I grew up in a traditionally conservative, southern, methodist, close minded home. As a kid I only had that view around me and LGBT+ was not something I saw in my hometown, if it was it was "weird" and instantly got treated like an assault. So I ate it up and believed that my parents and mentors were right, I didn't question because that was dangerous, it could "lead me down a bad path". As an adult I joined into careers and groups that shared these same views, do I continued to hold them as "right".
They are not right.
I always felt "weird" while I didn't feel gay I had some feelings that I fully did not understand, and refused to believe were real, fought back against. It was 2020 before I started to embrace them, I had some really good friends who asked me important questions and made me see that weird is ok. I experimented and decided to be more welcoming and supportive of others around me. I found that when I let my barrier down I could love and actively enjoyed the way of life I so actively avoided before. It felt good to love, it felt good to accept.
I came out to my dad who I hardly grew up with a few weeks ago, so worried that he would not accept, but I needed to do it. To my surprise he was so supportive and welcoming of me that I was blown away. I have cut my mother and step-dad and all of my former mentors out of my life because they would not accept me. I am better for this.
In the world we have a lot of violent and terrible people, and they want to tell people that their way is wrong, "don't love, don't accept"
I'm here to say I am a better person because the LGBT+ community, thank you all for helping me grow and prosper, and if anyone ever tells you that you are not valid, they are wrong. You deserve to be able to stand up and show your pride, and if someone doesn't want to be here for that, they can be left behind.
Pride for me is the progress that we make together, the ability to, against all the hate, continue to love. If you have anyone in your life that you need to tell, tell them, they may be supportive or you will be able to have all of us here to support you.
Please show your pride, don't feel like you have to hide, I hope that if I can completely change my way of viewing the world and overcome the fear of being able to say "I'm weird and that is ok, walk with me or don't" that it will give courage and strength to those who need it
happy pride Croix ^^
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