Editors Note: This post was originally published in 2016, Show Pride this month and every month, because Love is love.
October 1, 2016
The first time my friends and I have ever gone to a Pride event.
As a straight, white, female I guess you could say I’m privileged, or spoiled, and I guess, to an extent, you’d be correct.
I was fortunate enough to grow up with a mother who let me think for myself and form my own thoughts and opinions on the world, and one thing I’m a supporter of is the LGBT community/movement.
In my mind, Love is love, and everyone is deserving of love and acceptance.
This is what my first experience of Pride was like….
Pride has to be the most incredible thing I’ve ever witnessed.
To me, it seems like all of the evil that has happened this year, in the LGBT community, and beyond, never happened. Even if only for a moment in time, everyone was so friendly and excepting.
It’s truly a beautiful thing for people from all walks of life to come together and support the LGBT community.
No one fought anyone, no one said anything negative to anyone.
It’s like I was in a whole other world. Since I don’t go to that area of town ever, I was a little apprehensive, but that was immediately lifted once the events began. Everyone was friendly.
It really made my heart so happy to know that so many people do support the LGBT community. That as a city, community, state, we can learn to come together and support love and acceptance. It’s a beautiful thing when people can be in a place of peace and be who they are and who they were meant to be.
Everyone should experience pride at least once in their life.
Let there be love, and let it begin with me.