#first pride

[iamnotwrongo]

Today was my first pride alongside the wise lesbian @lesbiannbat 😘🎀

Plus it was behind our parents back and we didn't get caught😝🤭

[saikiscanonicalboyfriend]

uh my first pride month

okay so i know it's been 14-15 days since pride but i forgot to share about it so here you go

First me and my parents went out to the city to go to a hotel because it was expected to have zero electricity at our place, and when we drive by a park i see people having a pride parade which made me really excited since i've never really seen one. Unfortunately my parents didn't like it since they're homophobic and stuff, but at the hotel's food thingy (forgot what you called it) there's even pride and rainbow decorations, i planned to take a picture but i was too busy exploring, besides we had to go to the hotel room immediately so that sucks

Anyways we went back to the food area for dinner since we were hungry. And lemme tell you it was so pretty, there was a pride flag in a jar, pride flags on the ceiling, and a rainbow arch thingy!! It was just basically super colorful, they even had pride cakes :0

i'm surprised at them because in my place they're almost all homophobic 💔

[gerrrdz]

Yesterday I went to Warsaw Pride Parade and it was just WOW. Absolutely incredible.

Honestly I was so glued to the whole procession that i completely forgot to take photos, so these are just pics from web :D.

I've always wanted to experience a Pride Parade, and this was my very first one. Being there, meeting so many beautiful souls, and screaming my lungs out with the crowd made me so incredibly happy. My heart is just so full rn.

[beckerart]

I was on my first ever pride today. They're wanted to ban it in hungary.

Today more than 200 THOUSAND people were there to support the hungarian LGBTQ+ community and our right to assemble.

I finally can be proud to be a hungarian 🏳️‍🌈🇭🇺

(so bad that even the introverts are here)

I can't believe that I was really there too🥹

[ivygorgon]

[littlefingies]

I am so grateful for the genuine affection that OFMD shows for little weirdos like me.

Not just:

Hey, love, be yourself, even when it's hard. You have value just as you are and there are people out there who will really appreciate your particular brand of weird.

But also:

Hey, love, be yourself. You can probably succeed at being somebody else, and it will make things easier for awhile, but that's it's own kind of cage and you deserve to be seen for who you really are. The right people will want to hang out with the real you.

Anyways I'm about to go to my first pride event and it's a little thing, but I'm going to wear the things that I really want to instead of trying to figure out what I'm "supposed" to wear.

[memento-mariii]

Went to my first Pride today!!!

My church had a booth there along with other queer affirming churches & other religious organizations, various human rights groups, unions, leftist (and sadly still very fringe) political parties including the one I'm a member of, foreign embassies from countries with legalized gay marriage (hence the Canada flag lol), and shockingly (considering how conservative Korea is I mean) they even had some corpos there (although Google was the only "big" name there so I guess rainbow capitalism isn't very profitable in Korea yet 😅)

I couldn't stay for the march 'cause I had a job thing I needed to go to, but I'm still very glad that I went!

[stevesbipanic]

I hope everyone is having a wonderful beginning of pride month! This is my first pride since coming out and I'd like to share a little bit of my own perspective this pride.

I'm 22 and I only came out a few months ago. I've been super lucky and all of my friends and family have been super accepting. The worst part about coming out has just been me.

My whole life I thought I was straight, I didn't have many crushes (see later learning about demisexuality as well) and any that I did have were very normal cis guys from school. I never had any reason to think I wasn't straight and that was perfectly ok.

My friend group has always leaned on the queerer side. Most of them were out by the time we graduated high school or shortly after and all of them talked about how they always knew that it was always there.

I've known what pansexual is since I was 14 and I'd never thought of it as a label for me, people were pretty but that was it to me, I liked guys.

There's a guilt you feel sometimes when you come out later than your peers. Whether it be like me and you're still young or years down the line. You're still just as valid but there's that part of you that feels guilty for not knowing sooner.

It's my first pride and I feel guilty.

I feel guilty because every year before now pride was for my friends with me as the respectful ally following their lead. I've never even gone to a pride parade, always seeing that as something they got to do, something they deserved to do and I didn't want to intrude.

I know I shouldn't feel guilty but I do.

I hope one day there's a part of me that doesn't feel like I'm just faking these feelings so I can be included, that it's ok I didn't always know but for now there is.

I'm grateful to everyone celebrating pride with me this year, my partner, my friends both here and out in the world and my family.

Thank you for reminding me I'm valid even when I can't always see it.

Happy pride everyone, especially if this is your first one.

❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜