#digital pride

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pride asks a lot of queer people. show up. celebrate. educate. organize. support each other. keep going, even when it's hard.

so every year, we take a queer week of rest.

we started doing this a few years ago because we wanted to remind ourselves (and everyone else) that rest isn't the opposite of the work. it's part of the work.

not everyone can log off for a week. but maybe it's an afternoon. maybe it's reading a book by a queer author instead of doomscrolling. maybe it's making art, taking a walk, baking something, or doing absolutely nothing for a little while.

however you spend it, we hope you make some space for yourself, because we've earned it.

Scarleteen’s fourth digital pride is happening on Friday, June 28th! We're in an extra-super-mega celebratory mood this Pride month because we're in the midst of our 25th anniversary year!

We know that in-person Pride celebrations aren’t accessible or don’t feel safe for everyone, whether that’s because of disability, lack of transportation, or because it’s just not, or doesn’t yet feel, safe for someone to be out in their community. We do a digital Pride every year for many of the same reasons we exist as an online service. While online services aren’t accessible to everyone either, they widen the net substantially, especially for young people, people with disabilities, and rural people, and tend to feel especially safer for folks who want to talk, ask or read about things like sex, sexual identity, sexual health and relationships outside the box, subjects it just isn’t safe to ask just anyone about.

Just like we have during all of our quarter century as an organization and service, we’re focusing this year’s digital Pride on Queer Care. Queer care is the backbone of so much of queer history, culture, and community. We hope you'll join us for music, digital community resource sharing, mini-histories, and AMAs with our queer and trans/gender-nonconforming staff on our sub-reddit and our message boards!

We're inviting anyone who's curious to come by any of our real-time direct services — our boards, text service and live chat — on the 28th, too. Want to experience the kind of education and support our users receive? Get help as a parent or caregiver? Maybe you’re a sex or general educator yourself who wants to find out more about what we do and how we do it, or get help finding some of our content for your own teaching. You can also pop into any of our services just to say hi! Our message boards and text line are always open 24/7, but for Pride, our live chat service will also be open and available all day long!

If you watched San Junipero, you know Heaven is a place on Earth is almost a lesbian anthem

Goblin pride icons pt.2! Hope you guys like it! Please tag me if u use it!

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all you gotta do is walk away-ay-ay-ay. JK, just answer one question each day and send it to someone

I know ow we can't all be togther in person this year but we can still feel pride 🤍🏳️‍🌈

Pronouns

Gender + Sexual Orientation

Are you in a relationship, if so how did you meet

Are you out of the closet? (You can share your experience if you’d like)

Are you religious? If so does it effect how you feel about yourself

Have you ever been to a pride festival?

What age were you when you discovered your LGBTQ+ identity?

Favorite outfit?

Is the town you live/grew up in more conservative or liberal?

Dogs or cats?

Favorite song?

Favorite LGBTQ+ character in a movie, show, book, etc.

Do you know a lot of other queer people?

Biggest role model or influence in your life?

OTP?

Favorite piece of media that has a queer storyline or queer characters?

What “group” were you apart of in school?

Dream date?

Favorite queer historical figure or queer history moment and/or fact?

If you could tell all people who aren’t in the community one thing what would it be?

Favorite flavor is icey/slushie/popsicle (it is June)

Top thing on your bucket list you want to do in your life?

Favorite queer writer, musician, influencer, etc.

Do you have any pride memorabilia (pins, t shirts, etc)

Favorite quote?

Crush stories, cringe yay stories, any stories really.

Do you have a pride playlist? If so what’s on it?

Do you do art? Or any other creative medium like that, if not sports?

Old selfie vs New selfie

Whatever you want!!! :)

have fun!!! :) <3

Happy Digital Pride everyone! @evanchambersmusic (the amazing composer for @thebrightsessions) and I got together to sing some songs in honor of Digital Pride, an LGBT+ celebration that you can participate in from your computer! It’s meant to be a pride that everyone can take part in, all at once, regardless of whether they’re out or where they’re out.