Ivi Alejandra Hiller Vargas: Be respectful towards those near you. Jimena Gomez: “Pride” means being loyal to myself and not settling for less than I deserve, which is being happy! It means living my life as I want. No matter how long it took for me to realize who I really am, and no matter what I have or have not done, I am ME today – and that is enough. It also means honoring all the ones that were not able to be their selves and/or suffered for it. Ivi Alejandra Hiller Vargas: PRIDE means security, feeling safe, being myself, expressing love, being visible, helping others to understand the LGBTQI+ community, and being an example for those who are not able to speak out. And even if it has indeed become a loss-political event, it is very important for all our community to gather for the Pride month. And since then, I join virtually or physically as much as possible to bring the attention of the public to Pride events. PRIDE is also a time to reflect on the people who put their livelihoods and their lives at risk to stand up and demand equality, as well as a time to bring awareness to the disproportionate inequities that the LGBTQI+ community continues to suffer – especially for queer and trans people of color.Īdrien Dixneuf: Growing up, I had a lot of internalized homophobia, and many people around me would criticize Pride events by saying, “I have no problems with LGBTQ+ people but why do they have to parade in the streets?” For many years, I must shamefully admit that I may have said that myself during my closeted years.īut getting more into the history of the LGBTQ+ community, I finally realized that, Pride was a political expression of occupying the public space because this very public space is sometimes if not often not open to us because of safety reasons or even because of repression. Devin Crock: PRIDE to me is about celebrating all of the diversity of the LGBTQI+ community.
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