Pride Month
Pride Songs
When I started researching for this article, I did not expect it to turn into mostly Foo Fighters and Paramore songs. I was happily surprised that I found so many songs from them. In this article I am going to take songs that are not necessarily gay songs and relate them to pride and coming out.
Jeremy WhitePublished 2 years ago in PrideStanding by the Closet Door
I was eight-years-old when I started to suspect I was "different". I would see all sorts of girls at school and they always took my breath away. They were all so pretty, so very pretty. But I was never jealous of them. There was no reason to be jealous. I hadn't yet learned to hate my body, so I hadn't yet started comparing myself to them. If anything, I was jealous of the boys. I was having "sinful" thoughts of the girls - "unnatural" thoughts. I knew that none of them had those ideas or feelings too. They had made that very, painfully clear with their comments about the "evil" gays and their chasing of the boys in our class. So, I decided to keep it to myself.
Thorn DeathPublished 2 years ago in PrideI Found Peace in the Violence
I wish that I could sit down with my younger self and take all of her self-hatred and loathing and explain to her the truth that would bloom out of her life. It took me so long to figure out who I am and grow into who I am today. I still have so much growth to do. When I was younger church was a huge part of my life. My friends were there, my family was there. I grew up in one church for most of my life.
brooke vecchiPublished 2 years ago in PrideSight
Sight A stale, foul odor rose from the little lagoon in the middle of my paradise. The wind picks up and wafts away the awful stench of algae and decay, only to be replaced by the sweet smell of German Chamomile, Plumeria, and Oak. The mixture inflamed my senses. I drank in this welcome aroma in tall glasses as I reached back to my faraway home. I drifted in the limbo of time to when I was a little girl sitting on sandy beaches.
Alex PiercePublished 2 years ago in PrideIlluminated Shadows
Chapter One I'm not too fond of jobs like this. You know the ones that require you to acquire the target by all means necessary. However, I am not like everyone. I will do what I please and how I please, to hell with my employers.
Alex PiercePublished 2 years ago in PrideI Married Just Because
Looking back, It would have made my life so different if only my dad would have accepted me for who I was. Now I am so blessed to be"Me"
Cathy DeslippePublished 2 years ago in PrideAlexandria
Epilogue The morning was dark, the air cold. The coffee was growing cold as always. The team had started lining up. The pullers was already in position.
Jeffrey AllisonPublished 2 years ago in PrideGrowing up Gay in Tennessee's Countryside
Winchester, TENN.— Tucked away on Old Tullahoma Road Maplewood Apartments, where Seth Garrison and Jarred Garrison have built a home together. The garden in their front yard is decorated with small pride flags, which stick out of flower pots and line the sidewalk leading to their glass door.
The Nature of My Love is Not a Choice
I was raised in a very religious household in a very conservative town in Georgia. Whenever someone says that a person isn’t born gay—that it’s a choice—I have to wonder from whom they are getting their intel. It’s always a straight person who says this, and I think, How would you know? What makes you an expert on the complex and drastically unique experiences of all homosexuals everywhere? Please, show me your degree in Homosexual Studies.
Navaris DarsonPublished 2 years ago in PrideI'm Queer and I'm Here All Year
Every year on June 1st I get a handful of messages wishing me a Happy Pride Month. I usually respond with the generic, "thanks, you too!" because to be honest, I don't have the energy for more.
Oneg In The ArcticPublished 2 years ago in PrideHappy Pride Month!
My name is Angel, and this is my autistic confession. You probably know that June is Pride Month. So I thought I’d tell you a new fact about me.
Angel MannPublished 2 years ago in PrideGender is a Performance
It's not too much of a stretch to make the claim that people under the transgender umbrella give their gender far more thought than the average cis person. Transgender people spend years and thousands of dollars on adjusting their presentation to match their gender, but gender is something that everybody has so what's up with the backlash towards transgender people lately then? A lot of the reasons cisgender people give for not supporting transgender rights is that they don't understand how it works, they can't fathom someone putting themselves through years of medical work just to feel comfortable in their body and I honestly get it. It can be pretty overwhelming when someone you love comes out as transgender because it may feel sudden or like you suddenly have to change everything you know about that person but I want to try and give another way to look at the concept of "gender" as a whole.
skittly booPublished 2 years ago in Pride