Pride Month
Pride Songs
When I started researching for this article, I did not expect it to turn into mostly Foo Fighters and Paramore songs. I was happily surprised that I found so many songs from them. In this article I am going to take songs that are not necessarily gay songs and relate them to pride and coming out.
By Jeremy White4 years ago in Pride
I Found Peace in the Violence
I wish that I could sit down with my younger self and take all of her self-hatred and loathing and explain to her the truth that would bloom out of her life. It took me so long to figure out who I am and grow into who I am today. I still have so much growth to do. When I was younger church was a huge part of my life. My friends were there, my family was there. I grew up in one church for most of my life.
By brooke vecchi4 years ago in Pride
Sight
Sight A stale, foul odor rose from the little lagoon in the middle of my paradise. The wind picks up and wafts away the awful stench of algae and decay, only to be replaced by the sweet smell of German Chamomile, Plumeria, and Oak. The mixture inflamed my senses. I drank in this welcome aroma in tall glasses as I reached back to my faraway home. I drifted in the limbo of time to when I was a little girl sitting on sandy beaches.
By Alex Pierce4 years ago in Pride
The Nature of My Love is Not a Choice
I was raised in a very religious household in a very conservative town in Georgia. Whenever someone says that a person isn’t born gay—that it’s a choice—I have to wonder from whom they are getting their intel. It’s always a straight person who says this, and I think, How would you know? What makes you an expert on the complex and drastically unique experiences of all homosexuals everywhere? Please, show me your degree in Homosexual Studies.
By Navaris Darson4 years ago in Pride
Gender is a Performance
It's not too much of a stretch to make the claim that people under the transgender umbrella give their gender far more thought than the average cis person. Transgender people spend years and thousands of dollars on adjusting their presentation to match their gender, but gender is something that everybody has so what's up with the backlash towards transgender people lately then? A lot of the reasons cisgender people give for not supporting transgender rights is that they don't understand how it works, they can't fathom someone putting themselves through years of medical work just to feel comfortable in their body and I honestly get it. It can be pretty overwhelming when someone you love comes out as transgender because it may feel sudden or like you suddenly have to change everything you know about that person but I want to try and give another way to look at the concept of "gender" as a whole.
By skittly boo4 years ago in Pride
What were Queer Movies like For You Growing up?
I’m 52 and a half years old, been out as a queer person since I was 23. No matter what generation we come up through, we are all looking for popular culture to reflect our own existence. We all want to find some way to connect to the larger world to know that we are real, to have some sense that we are normal and we will be okay.
By Angela Englert4 years ago in Pride
