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Bring the B! Quotes To Rock LGBT Pride Month

Commemorating the Stonewall Riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969, Pride Month recognizes the impact LGBT people have had around the world. Take Pride!

Just because you’re in the middle of the spectrum doesn’t mean you’re off the rainbow. 30 snippets to pre-game for Pride Fest!

1. “I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is really a problem when I’m walking down the street…??? – Angelina Jolie

2. “I think people are born bisexual. It’s just that our parents and society veer us off into this feeling of OH I can’t……but it’s a beautiful thing.??? – Billie Joe Armstrong

3. “I had no idea I was gay until I actually kissed a girl.??? – Heather Peace

4. “I think it’s exciting to try anything you possibly can??? – Juno Temple

5. “I would probably list myself as mostly straight, but who knows? I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close minded.??? – Josh Hutcherson

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Let There Be Pride And Let It Begin With Me.

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.

Ariana Grande Defends Herself After Being Accused Of ‘Exploiting’ The LGBTQ Community

Ariana Grande has stepped in to defend herself from criticism that she’s exploiting the LGBTQ community by headlining a big Pride festival.

For weeks there had been rumors that Ariana would head the bill at this year’s Manchester Pride. She hasn’t performed in Manchester in two years—the last show was the One Love concert, which she and her team put together in 2017 to aid the those who were affected when a bomb went off outside her Manchester concert, killing 22 people.

But when the official announcement was made, both the festival and Ariana herself came under fire from people who were upset about the choice of headliner, both because she’s not queer and because the tickets were suddenly very expensive. (BuzzFeed reports that a weekend ticket cost £28, but this year it’s shot up to £74.50.)

Ariana Grande headlining Manchester Pride and then Pride subsequently charging £75 a ticket is exactly why rainbow capitalism needs to go die in a ditch

— john persona 5 royal (@copyofamity) February 26, 2019

https://twitter.com/hernameismais/status/1100360237280911360

https://twitter.com/diceydarkiplier/status/1100351540139884544

People were also (understandably) upset that the Pride festival was now being treated more like a regular music festival, which is not what it was meant to be. Even homophobes were planning to attend.

https://twitter.com/princessmolly04/status/1100088516460064768

https://twitter.com/indxae/status/1100172757936025600

And then there was the issue of the LGBTQ artists that could have been hired instead of a straight woman.

So let me get this straight… Manchester Pride made headlines for including the Black and brown stripes in the Pride flag, then upped their ticket prices to £70 thus making the event very inaccessible, then got Ariana, a CIS-Het white woman to headline? How revolutionary *yawn* pic.twitter.com/m7YaBBZuXU

— Tanya Compas (@TanyaCompas) February 25, 2019

https://twitter.com/fka_j/status/1100707762919608321

https://twitter.com/Ioseloselose/status/1100128699960180742

One person made what they later called “a passing comment” that blew up huge on Twitter. They wrote, “idk …. ariana headlining pride when she’s straight (as far as we’re all aware) …. and doubling the price of tickets …. kinda smells like exploitation of the lgbt community to me …..”

https://twitter.com/raininjulyvinyl/status/1100072623327924224

They added a few follow-up tweets explaining that they had no problem with Ariana as a person, they just found it “weird/uncomfortable” that a straight woman would be the “‘face’ of the whole event.”

https://twitter.com/raininjulyvinyl/status/1100426455652229120

It was at this point that Ariana stepped in to respond.

https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/1100833408144498688

She responded to the tweet about exploitation, writing, “i saw many people discussing this so I wanted to chime in…. hope that’s okay.” She included a long note which read:

hi my love. i have nothing to do with ticket pricing — manchester pride sets those rates, and they’re mostly out of my control. the lgbtq community has been so special to me and supportive throughout my entire career. the relationships i have with my lgbtq fans, friends, and family make me so so happy. i want to celebrate and support this community, regardless of my identity or how people label me. and also i wanna visit a city that means so much to me. lgbtq representation is incredibly important, and i’m always proud to share the stage with lgbtq artist! over the years, pride events have been headlined by performers and artists of all sexual orientation and genders, including straight allies like cher and kylie minogue. i do think there’s room for us to talk about these issues without equating a performance *for*an lgbtq audience with exploitation of the lgbtq community. if you truly feel like i didn’t deserve to be offered this spot, i respect that. but i did accept it excitedly and gratefully. i’m not claiming to be the hero of the communityor the face of the lgbtq rights movement — i just wanna put on a show that makes my lgbtq fans feel special and celebrated and supported. that’s all i wanna do.