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Indiana town sued for blocking LGBTQ+ Pride festival (again)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/loogootee-indiana-lgbtq-pride-lawsuit

Pandering Pride: What Is Rainbow Capitalism? (w/ Naomi Stryker)

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/8JDrGz56Qd4QNgv5VND2Rs

@sashag that's how it's done!

I one had someone from a publisher contact me, and I told them that I'd consider working for them once they did #PrideMonth on all their accounts worldwide and actually worked towards fixing their workplace abuse problem.

They really went silent quickly. This was all eMail if I'm correct...

Texas city will remove rainbow crosswalks under orders from Trump administration

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/san-antonio-remove-rainbow-crosswalks

Egypt and Iran tell FIFA to cancel World Cup Pride Match, calling it 'contrary' to values

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/sports/egypt-iran-cancel-pride-match

So, again, it's not #PrideMonth , but with the recent discoveries about myself...the realization that, while I'm still #pansexual , I am also very firmly in the #asexual spectrum ... I asked the lovely @minettefraise.bsky.social for an edit to my last pride picture.
And yay! Thank you!
Absolutely nailed it.
And I love that Sammy also has a little asexual button for support of his bearkitty!
#diaper

Sascha the anthro bear-lynx-hybrid is holding up a blanket flag, looking at the viewer. One half if the Rainbow, the other half the asexual flag.

He is wearing a pansexual pride bandana, a black and purple hoodie and a clean white and purple adult diaper.

His plushie friend, the lynx Sammy is sitting in front of him, looking happy. Sammy is wearing a rainbow pride scarf and a supportive asexual button.

World Cup LGBTQ+ Pride Match will feature two countries where being gay is illegal

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/sports/world-cup-pride-match-countries

True Stories: Gay Memories – Coming Out Of The Closet #LGBTQI #LGBT

One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I never sat down with my mother and told her that I am gay. I chose, instead, the easy option of writing to her and telling her that I was a homosexual.

Facing Mum for the first time after writing that letter, I felt very nervous as I travelled to her home. I hesitated several times before walking up to the front door, ringing the doorbell, and announcing my arrival.

What a shock I got when she came towards me with open arms and, as she gave me one of her wonderful hugs, heard her whisper, “I always knew, I don’t know why it took you so long to tell me.”

Me and mum. Taken sometime in the 1980s, just after I had told her I was gay.

Not all my family was like mum, though. Some told me they were having difficulty accepting what I was because it wasn’t the sort of thing that happened to men in the area we came from. Hurtful words, but I already knew that the best thing I could do was to keep away from those who were upset by the life I was given, and let them live their lives as they wanted.

Over the years, I regained contact with some of those family members and, thankfully, have the changing face of society to thank for bringing us back together.

The fact that, in the past, there had been a few other men in the family who had never married never seemed to raise any suspicions that the family included gay people. It may have been discussed, but never while I was in the room.

I don’t know if any of those men ever ‘came out.’ Probably not, but it must have been tough for those who were gay when they lived. This made me more determined to live my life as I wanted and not as others expected me to.

Moving to live and work in London in 1986 was one of the most important decisions I’ve ever made. Although the city acted like a wall that seemed to shield gay people, I was still struggling to ‘come out.’

It was a strange situation because the first two jobs I took in London were in industries where other openly gay people worked.

When I took my next job, which would last 23 years, it took me six years to come out, and that was only when I heard the words “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?” Of course, nobody cared that I was gay, yet for all those years I had been terrified of what some of my work colleagues would think about me had I ‘come out’ of the closet.

Fast forward to today, and being gay is widely accepted by much of society. Or is it?

When we moved to our current home in South Wales, both my partner and I felt a little hesitant about whether people would accept us. There are fewer residents here than in the area where we had lived for over 30 years. We were returning to that place where I’d been told that ‘being gay didn’t happen.’ We could not have been more wrong!

People have been so welcoming, and we’re as much a part of the community as anyone else. Strange, though, is that every now and again, when I meet somebody for the first time and am asked who the other guy who walks our dogs is, I find myself hesitating before saying, “He’s my partner.”

Maybe some of the scars from our past never heal?

Swansea Bay. A 5-minute walk from our new home.

All photos in this post belong to me, Hugh W. Roberts

#ComingOut #Family #Gay #LGBT #LGBTQI #life #Pride #PrideMonth #queer #TrueStories #TrueStory

Happy #pridemonth !

Well, it is not #Pridemonth at any rate.
But still there had been thoughts and reflections in my mind for several months now.
And while I am still counting myself as #pansexual (that doesnt change) and a member of the big #LGBTQIA+ family... I'd like to add another identifier to myself: #asexual
Not black & white, but I am definitely on that asexual spectrum and I finally made peace with that after long deliberations

It feels right (not much will change anyway ^^' )

And thank you to @kuraiko for being the best and most supportive partner I could ever wish for!

Addendum:
This identifier is not there to limit myself. Oder define myself purely through labels and drawers (that's why I used "identifier" as a word)... but just to understand myself a little more and because it feels valid.

the rainbow pride flag, showing support and belonging to the big LGBTQIA+ family

Well, it is not #Pridemonth at any rate.
But still there had been thoughts and reflections in my mind for several months now.
And while I am still counting myself as #pansexual (that doesnt change) and a member of the big #LGBTQIA+ family... I'd like to add another identifier to myself: #asexual
Not black & white, but I am definitely on that asexual spectrum and I finally made peace with that after long deliberations

It feels right (not much will change anyway ' )

And thank you to @Kuraiko for being the best and most supportive partner I could ever wish for!

Addendum:
This identifier is not there to limit myself. Oder define myself purely through labels and drawers (that's why I used "identifier" as a word)... but just to understand myself a little more and because it feels valid.

Um sich für #gleichberechtigung #queer|er Menschen einzusetzen, fanden in diesem Jahr so viele #csd|s in Deutschland statt wie noch nie. ❤️
Unser #csd in #burgdorf fand vor dem klassischen #pridemonth statt und hat einen kleinen Beitrag für Menschlichkeit und Solidarität geleistet.
Wenn ihr könnt,unterstützt kleinere CSDs.
#pride #lgbtqia #trans #loveislove
CSD-Demo-Karten 2025: Solidarisch & vielfältig wie noch nie – auch in Kleinstädten & auf dem Land! - Volksverpetzer
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/csd-karte-2025/