”But why do you need Pride Month?”
I remember my parents and their friends and family always taking opportunities to say homophobic stuff, especially when schools teaching about the LGBTQ was brought up. My parents would make me skip school on IDOHOBIT day and if the school was doing an event for pride month.
But there were days when my class taught about it, and it gave me a jumping point for when I eventually did my own research.
As a fellow ex-jw trans fellow, I'm really glad to hear you found yourself, and that pride month helped!
I didn't have any of that, my country is slow and I lived in the middle of nowhere, where all the queer talk came through places on the internet it was sinful to go to. It took me until I was well into my 20s, committing the sin of higher education (because thankfully my parents weren't that dumb) and leaving the JWs to finally start encounter and talking to queer folk about queer things. And I found myself almost immediately. I'd like to think if pride month was a thing where I was growing up that maybe I wouldn't have lost all my teenage years, all my youth, to the mask. It really is so important to make people know that other ways exist. That we exist.
And that we are happy <3
