CONTEST 🏳️‍🌈PIMD Pride Parade 2022🏳️‍🌈

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PRIDE SUBMISSION

  • 🏳️‍🌈 Choose something that shows what Pride means to you!
    - This can be a ✨poem✨, story, picture, painting, drawing, quote, song -- whatever! It's your choice!
  • “Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.”
  • This is a quote by Nelson Mandela, a very inspirational political leader and civil rights advocate. I believe his words hold true all-round when it comes to being SHAMELESSLY YOURSELF! And never letting anybody put you down for that. Being true to yourself is probably one of the most important aspects of life, and if you can’t be true to yourself you need to FIGHT to be able to be true to yourself. This quote is something I live by and take inspiration from everyday. ❤️
 
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Pride was one of the few times I felt comfortable being in my skin own. Growing up, many people couldn't tell if I was a boy or girl. Many times, people would call me "it" out of frustration of knowing my pronouns. It made me question what I really was. I was a girl, but did I truly want to be one? Was I meant to be a boy instead?

Pride was when I met my best friend, A gorgeous drag queen who helped me embrace both my masculine and feminine side. We went to our first parade together and it was the first time I didn't feel afraid. I didn't feel the need to wear baggy clothing to conceal myself. I didn't care what anyone called me. I was Me.

Pride is when I reflect on the pain I endured as a confused teenager. It is when I appreciate all the people that helped me throughout my self-identity journey and helped me love ME. It is when I share my pride. 💚

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I saw the opportunity to color this lovely linework with their respective flags and took it! I had a blast and thank the artist for letting us give our take on your work.

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Pride to me is the celebration of love! There is nothing more beautiful than being able to love who you love freely! Pride is the expression of your truest self! After all, “the most powerful thing you can do is become the image of your own imagination.” -Ru Paul.

Here are two of my of my own characters with their partners being unapologetically themselves and in love!

happy Pride month everyone! 🏳️‍🌈

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To me pride month is like a freedom, I can finally draw Pride peoples again, freely and feel more comfortable.
but in my country it is not legal(and would be considered as a crime sooner or later), so we don't do pride month, that's the sad part, but I want to share with all the world about how happy I am to be here, so here a small piece(that I also send to submission).

🍨🌟🏳️‍🌈 happy pride month all!
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This is the best contest I think ATA has ever had! Raising money for charity while also including those who may not be able to, it’s wonderful. Thank you ATA for improving your Pride Month more every single year.
 
✨Story Time✨

So I met this person about 2 years ago. Basically, she’s kind enough to let me stay in her club for my whole PIMD journey. Not only she let me made me a perm, she also helped me grow my stats, gave me bentos and furnis, and taught me how things work in PIMD since I was a newbie. Months later during my stay, not only she entrusted me by giving me higher ranks in club which I am so honored (Tbh, I did not know what I did for someone to trust me, but I am glad she did), she thought of me as part of the family as well as everyone in club.

Sadly, not all the time had to stay things above, everyone in club faced many hardships and arguments which led to improper goodbyes and unsolved feuds. I thought I could promise myself to stay by her side, but alas, she thought of me as a different person and my worst fears became true. She started to push me away like everyone else who left, I tried my best to be patient to her and understand her. Still, she treats me like I am not a human being with no feelings. I couldn’t handle it no more, so I stood for myself and defended my feelings because everything she said are like a barrage of piercing arrows. Aside everything she did, from the gaslighting/manipulation, offending words, restricting everyone, taking my rights to choose an avi (yes, you read it right!). Even from a male choosing a female avi, it is like an abomination to her and that’s what rings to my head: HOMOPHOBIA.

As a closeted gay person irl, the topic “being gay” still makes me uncomfortable sometimes even though I accept myself. But for others who are against gay people or anyone in the community, it is unacceptable and kind of sad and disappointing no matter how close you are to these “anti-homosexuals” These members of the community already suffered a lot even from the beginning they accept their personal selves.

After deciding that no matter how hard I try to solve the problem, it recoils to me and causing me to break myself. To be honest, I am the person who tries to do and think what’s best for everyone even though I might ended up being hurt. I realised it was already toxic for me, and I just realised that no matter how kind you are, bad things will come to you.

In the end, I left for good, I never felt so much freedom before. The strangling hand in my neck was finally gone, I know I should not be overreacting this much but it is what I truly felt. It’s like finally seeing the whole world in a new perspective and ways I couldn’t even imagine. Now, I am staying in a new club with my very very close friend and a bro that I could not even ask for more @Froggie- . He accepted me for who I am even though he already sensed that I am not straight hahaha. Still, I am so grateful to have him as kind of like an older brother who had back way back we were still in our old club.

So, to all members of the LGBTQIA+ community especially to the closeted ones, take your time and don’t feel pressured like you owe something to them. We can decide when we will do it and do not let what other people say comes to you because it will lead you breaking down (from my experience). The right people will understand and accept for who you are as a person. Probably you might lose friends (which kind of sucks) but it will set you free. Do not be afraid to cut ties to someone who can’t respect for who you are and do not spread hate to them even if they are hurtful because after all…


“We are living under one sky, so let us all live peacefully where love is our language.” - Samantha Bernardo, MGI 2020 1st RU


HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!🏳️‍🌈🥰
 
“Every gay and lesbian [and LGBTQ+] person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.” -Bob Paris

To me, pride month is a time to lift each other up and be proud of our individuality and find our commonalities - to support each other, offer a shoulder to cry on, and to grow together. 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! Be proud of who you are!! June & every other month 😉
 
I have never understood the hate when it comes to who we love. Growing up in church, I really saw how much hatred people had for those of the LGBTQ+ community. When my best friend awakened my sexual interest in females, I was scared. For years the only person who knew I was gay, was my best friend. It was hard for me to tell my parents, family and friends; because most of them where Christians and I knew how they felt about the subject. I myself am a Christian so when I came out it was a lot of “You know what the Bible says.” and “You know how God sees this.” But although I was told that by many of my family, my parents still supported me. My parents found me a LGBTQ+ church to go to, so I’d feel more comfortable. They wore LGBTQ+ bracelets, showed me and others that they where my ally. They did what they could as parents to support me. Never once did they judge me but I do have a lot people in my life that do judge me. Heck I judged myself. As a Christian it was hard to openly act on how I felt, because any time I would think about a female, flirt with a female, ANYTHING with a female, I’d be consumed of this horrible guilt because I knew what was thrown down my throat. I beat myself up so much. Then I met T and if it wasn’t for T, then I’d still be in that loop today. But T has showed me that I can be me, that I can love anyone that I want. It doesn’t matter what others think or what others believe in. What matters is what I believe in. And I believe that God loves me for who I am, no matter what my sexual preference is. People have told me I can’t have both; I can’t have my religion and be gay. But they are wrong. I know what I can and can’t have. So I just wanted to say, if you struggle with religion and being gay, or struggling with being gay in general, it’s okay. You definitely aren’t alone, and I hope you’re able to realize that. I hope everyone that feels they can’t be something because it’s not the normal, that you realize it is normal to feel how you feel. What’s not normal is people hating you for how you feel and live your life. Hope this makes since. I suck at words. 🥺🤍Happy Pride Month.🏳️‍🌈
 
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow- this is a human offering that can border or miraculous”

-Elizabeth Gilbert

I think this quote speaks volumes for all of those fighting to show their true selves and for those who are openly accepted alike. I’m so happy to be living in a society that *mostly* accepts anyone for whoever they are 🖤
 
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