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. 🌈

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JustGoneNow

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. 🤗

JustGoneNow

@Degbeme she’s wonderful. Beautiful soul. 🖤

Degbeme · 70-79, M

@JustGoneNow Absolutely.