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Why Do We Need Pride?

I was just in a planning session at work for an upcoming meeting called "Interrupting Bias." I work for a large US corporation that you would know the name of if you live in my country. We will be playing a video with three gay or lesbian employees telling their stories. My friend Lisa is one of the people telling her story, and she will also be helping run the meeting with me.

She tells how she came out of the closet as a high schooler. Her whole family rejected her. Her grandmother sent her a Bible with certain verses highlighted about homosexuality. When I heard the story, I broke down weeping. I am so, so frustrated at the amount of damage faith has caused to people in my community. Many of us in the LGBTQ+ community still carry that trauma. 😢

🌈 This is why we need Pride. 🌈

Straylight · 31-35, F
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@ShadowSister that took a lot out of me. Sometime, I need to make a post all about Sam. 🖤
ShadowSister · 46-50, F
@JustGoneNow It's good to remember her. She meant a lot to you. I wish I could have known her. It's hard to lose the people we love.

I'm sure it's almost impossible to wonder what else you could have done. "Maybe if I had just been a little more this, or a little less that..." You had a lot going on. You drifted away. Or she pushed you away. No matter what the cause, it hurts. She left a hole, and it was big enough that you still feel the emptiness 25 years later. That's a heavy load to carry.

On the other hand, think of what she felt in the moment. You've been there. I've been there. We know what it feels like. The last thing we would have wanted would be to heap guilt on our friends. We might want to heap guilt on those fuckers who made us feel like shit. "Let them live with what they pushed me to do to myself." That's certainly how I felt in the moment. But I never would have wanted my friends who were the most supportive to feel that way.

Anyway, words fail. She sounds like an amazing person. It's good to honor her memory.
@ShadowSister ty 🖤
Let me be an instrument of healing past wrongs and offering light and love. 🖤

Let that be my legacy. Happy Pride month.

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:

where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

where there is sadness, joy. 


O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen. 🖤🙏

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Degbeme · 70-79, M
@JustGoneNow Our Canadian sweetheart. 🤗
@Degbeme she’s wonderful. Beautiful soul. 🖤
Degbeme · 70-79, M
@JustGoneNow Absolutely.
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I was fortunate to have an open-minded, accepting family, who were both not surprised and not bothered by my homosexuality. But so many still deal with being disowned and bullied and carry shame for their orientation. Pride is about not having to hide it and not hating who you are. Yes, we still need it.
The trauma of belonging to the LBGTQ community comes not from within but from those outside who refuse to accept the reality that homo/bi/pan/trans/intersexual people are people. It's quite easy to understand.
zerofuks2give · 41-45, M
As a parent my heart breaks for these kids. I don’t understand how anyone could treat their own children like that 😔

 
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