CONTEST 🏳️‍🌈PIMD Pride Parade 2023🏳️‍🌈

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Pride was the whole reason I felt safe to come out in my community. Pride helped me to realize that I was NOT alone, and I wasn’t broken. I made friends, and stood before my student council to bring more inclusion to the LGBT+ community with clubs as soon as the school year started up again in 2015. We stood together, and we got that club started! Pride to me is a feeling of security, and safety. Knowing myself and others are loved for who we are.
 
🏳️‍🌈ʜ ᴀ ᴘ ᴘ ʏ ᴘ ʀ ɪ ᴅ ᴇ 🏳️‍🌈
ɪ ᴄʜᴏꜱᴇ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴘʀᴇꜱᴇɴᴛ ᴘʀɪᴅᴇ ʙʏ ᴜꜱɪɴɢ ʙᴜᴛᴛᴇʀꜰʟɪᴇꜱ, ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴍᴇ..ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴀʟʟ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴘʀᴇᴀᴅ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡɪɴɢꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴏᴛ ʙᴇ ᴀꜰʀᴀɪᴅ ᴛᴏ ꜰʟʏ. ᴛᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴘʟᴀʏ ᴀ ʀᴏʟᴇ, ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇᴘᴛᴇᴅ. ᴛᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ʜɪᴅᴇ ᴀʟʟ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪꜰᴜʟ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀꜱ, ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴇᴍʙʀᴀᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴜᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴡʜᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʀᴜʟʏ ᴀʀᴇ.🩷
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Coming out for me was hard. My parents are very religious and that always frightened me. I remember the day I told my dad and he says, “You’re no child of mine!” Among other explicit words, I remember it almost felt like my heart was broken, just like that. My dad was my best friend and now it was like he was a stranger. I remember being so hurt until my grandmother sat me down and told me, “Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you. Feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.” Ten years later and I barley speak to my dad but I am thankful my grandmother never made me feel as though I was alone or not good enough. I miss her everyday. Moral of the story, I just want someone, anyone who reads this to know that no matter what, you are never alone.

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month Y’all🏳️‍🌈
 
In another life
I'll reach for her hand
And no one will wonder
If we're fiends or something more
In another life
I'll kiss her in the streets
To our favorite song
And noone will look at us
Like we're doing something wrong

-the road between
 
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Recoloring these as my version of Disney Prince Charmings falling irrevocably in love.

As a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community,
P R I D E
has always been a celebration of self expression,
cultural acceptance, and genuine freedom for me.

Happy Pride, PIMD!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
 
Zubat said:
Pride to me means embracing who i
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Anyway, Pride to me means embracing who I am and meeting others who can relate to how I feel. For the longest time I felt alone because of how I identify, but opening up about things and talking to others has made me feel like I’m part of a ‘family’ almost. I no longer feel alone and I’m so grateful for that 💜
 
As a proud mom to a trans son, I just want to say how much it means to see the representation here on PIMD. Having a safe place does not come easily to most lgbtq+ people even in 2023. As a mom I struggle between worrying about my sons safety in public when I’m not around and his mental health safety if he was to not be allowed to be who he is. To anyone who struggles with their parents and acceptance just know I will adopt you and you will always be loved no matter what. Happy pride to all my fellow lgbtq+ players!!! 🌈

♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
 
For this pimd pride parade, I'll share a quote that shows what pride means to me:

"In a society that educates us to feel shame, pride is a political response ". 🏳️‍🌈 Carlos Jauregui (1957-1996), Argentinian gay activist.

I share it in my social media every year during pride month because it's so meaningful to me. LGBTQ pride is not the pride that one feels for an achievement or a talent, is a pride born as a response for have been shamed during so long. It's a way to say "I'm not ashamed nor should I be for being who I am, for loving who I love".

The translation is mine.
 
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This is a subtle bi flag I painted. I currently live in an area that is unsafe for me to come out, so I have only celebrated pride online or in private with close friends. Although this is not very true to a bisexual flag, it is enough to make me feel happy of myself :)
 
Pride for me has always been about being my most authentic self whenever possible. I was one of the lucky one's who never had to worry about my mother's reaction to the news as she had been a bisexual woman. While she never really understood what it meant to be pansexual she never doubted my feelings for the people I brought into my life and welcomed them with open arms. This pride is a little bittersweet for me as my mother, the first person I told, and my biggest supporter, passed away in April. She lived a long wild life and she always taught me to be proud of who I am. My mother was always there for people who did not have the most accepting families. When I was in high school one of my friends came out to their parents and it went horribly so my mother let that friend move in with us despite the fact that we did not have much and lived in small studio apartment. My mother taught me to value strength, compassion, and understanding. She taught me that while we might not have much we had to share what we could. Our small apartment became a safe space for so many of my friends who didn't have anywhere else to go because my mother was the kind of woman who just couldn't turn a scared kid away. America has never been the safest place for the LGBTQ+ and only seems to grow more dangerous as time goes on, it is becoming increasingly hard to be proud of who we are when so many seek to cause us harm. My mother carved out a safe space for so many of mine and my siblings friends and I want to one day be able to provide a similar safe place of my own. America may be sinking into the dark age but if we who live here continue to fight, continue to have pride and continue to carve safe places for those who need them like my mother did then maybe we have a shot to make it out of this darkness. Your life doesn't matter less because of you who love, how you identify or who you are you deserve to live a long happy proud life.
 
I give you all that i am for you to be proud in me
There is no cost to my friendship or all of anything you see

The love i bring makes colours in the sky above
The power of my light a prysms rainbow love

Im not like the others not the majority to conform
But im a million other wonderful things and its how i was born
 
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