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The letters LGBTQ are just another way of saying that Love is Love.
National Coming Out Day 2019
Everyone has a story to tell and today is the perfect day to share them with the world. Today is National Coming Out Day, which is observed every year on October 11th. It’s a day to celebrate coming out and also raising awareness for the LGBT community. Back then, coming out to your friends, family, colleagues, etc., wasn’t easy, and in most instances, you were disowned by them. I wrote an article about Boston’s so-called “straight pride” event over a month ago and I went in on them, especially when it first started making headlines and caused controversy. Many straight people still complain about why Pride Month, LGBT History Month, and LGBT rights exist. It’s because they are among the few groups of people who get discriminated against on a regular basis and are being refused services and other accommodations on religious grounds. October is LGBT History Month, so it’s very important to educate everyone of LGBT advocates, heroes, politicians, icons, past and present, of the sacrifices and positive actions they have done for everyone in that community. Before I share my coming out story, I want to point out a few things.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 6 years ago in Humans
Give Them a Rainbow: An Incomplete Guide for the Average Ally
What a title! If you’re here, you might be somewhat familiar with the "sudden craze" that’s sweeping the nation. The label-filled world, the colourful alphabet soup—the LGBTQIA+. No, that’s not a key smash. Promise. The LGBTQIA+ is the way to refer to those in the world who did not “default” to straight. Now, it may seem that all these rainbows came out of nowhere, that the labels are just a millennial fad, and that as a self-proclaimed ally you’re doing all you can to be supportive and understand.
By Hunter Delles6 years ago in Humans
Finding Her (Pt. 3)
I know I’ll come back. I made a promise. After I left her once, we didn’t text right? Well I decided to text her. Everything was good. Since that moment we texted, I knew everything was going to be okay with her. Catching up on our lives was beautiful, since we wasted three months not knowing what we are doing with our lives. Then I ask her:
By Liliana Moreno6 years ago in Humans
Homosexuality Is Not a Choice
Science says there is biological influences that determines someone's sexuality. But before I get into that I need to debunk the myth that there is a link between homosexuality and paedophilia. Paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder not a sexual orientation, and a sexual orientation is an attraction to a gender or a sex. Paedophiles are attracted to children. Children before gender specifically. A child is not a gender or a sex, it's an age group. Notice that there is an imbalance because an adult is sexually attracted to a child if he or she acts on it, and then is dangerous to the child. The child is too young to know what sexual consent is. Homosexuality is a consensual relationship between two people of the same sex/gender. Homosexuality is universal, but has been criminalized due to colonisation and religious intolerance
By Kieron Inniss-Anthony6 years ago in Humans
The Colours of Change
Good day (I’m African, so we must greet first even in an article.). I was watching this Breakfast club conversation about trans gender people and the LGBTQ+ community surrounding it. The focus is on the transgender community within African Americans. I have to say it was informative, and broadened my views about the topic as I had always thought that having no problem with LGBTQ+ people was an okay stance on the topic, but that has been until now.
By Bittah Dreamer6 years ago in Humans
Gender Identities
There are so many genders than we once realized, and people tend to judge. People who aren't cisgender are normal and deserve love and acceptance. Gender and sexuality are more fluid these days, they're just not understood or talked about openly for fear of judgment. I'm writing this blog to educate those who are uneducated or curious (or both). So let's get started.
By Lena Bailey6 years ago in Humans
History of Pride and Why It Still Exists
Pride has been in the news lately because it was pride month in June and a bunch of straight people wanted straight pride to be a thing. So let's dive in and see why pride is for LGBT+ and not straight people but first let's look at what pride is.
By Lena Bailey6 years ago in Humans
LGBTQ+
How are we supposed to demand respect and equality when, within our own community of types, we don't give the same? How can you ask a straight person to treat you right when you don't treat transgender people right? Or bisexuals or pansexuals—see, even the word "pansexual" is underlined in red. Well, you can't see it, but it is not an accepted word. Nor is it an accepted term, not to a lot of people.
By Aurelie M Jones6 years ago in Humans
Boston's 'Straight Pride' Has Arrived
Despite actor Brad Pitt threatening to sue the organizers, backlash, and controversy, Boston's so-called "Straight Pride" took place Saturday. I wrote an article a month ago condemning this event and even wrote an open letter to straight people, well, most who felt like they needed an event to celebrate their sexuality. To read that article and my open letter to straight people, you can click the link below:
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 6 years ago in Humans
How to Accept Your Sexuality
My Teenage Romantic Interests and Crushes I remember being nine years old, gazing at my year five teacher's umm... assets shall we say? I also remember the embarrassment when I got caught staring at her in that way. But I also remember thinking: "No, this is wrong, I can't be attracted to women, look at men instead and just suppress your feelings," I told myself.
By Jasmine Morris6 years ago in Humans
