Its such a good Summer time. PRIDE month is so affirming and fun. Certainly we always go to the parade and street fests. Its food. Its social. It feels freeing.
My partner, of almost nine years, and I recently watched Milk, and I have to say as inhibited as I feel sometimes being a one in ten statistic, 2009 is an easy time for LGBT's in some ways. Of course, every one's experience is so different based upon upbringing, sense of family and community, employment, education, what block you live on, etc.
I want to help open the discussions of healthy LGBT relationships so we can be role models for one another. Each couple has strengths and we can share our experiences in order to normalize the feelings we all are experiencing - make the normal feelings...feel normal. To bring our selves out of isolation, we may be out in our lives, but there are feelings we hide. Lets start here having a dialogue about daily life and how we can positively impact one another, just by sharing our day to day stories.
I think what PRIDE means to me: a respite from the continuous requirement I put on myself to make a minute to minute decision about coming out to people. Every day at work, walking to the grocery store, having a conversation with family - what do I want to share, not that folks even care on the receiving side. I have a constant internal conversation about how to be and what to say...and I am one who does "pass," a lot of the time actually. Why should I feel that need? I wish I knew. However, and why ever...PRIDE is a release of that thinking and acting. I am just me. Out and proud. Surrounded by ones I love and feel safe with. Just me.
Happy PRIDE month. May we all feel that release more frequently as time goes on.
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