Happy Pride Month, Everyone!!! 🌈🌈🌈

TheGentleReina · June 2022

I just wanted to say hi and welcome to everyone under the Umbrella and to all our Allies. I hope everyone has a safe and fun Pride Month, the most colorful time of year! 🌈🌈🌈

Special shoutout to my bestie who had top surgery four weeks ago today! Love you! 🖤🖤🖤

sillysassy · June 2022

Awwwwwwww...... LOVE THIS!!! @TheGentleReina Welcome to the Community!! And as always.... May the Cuddle Gods Be EVER in YOUR Favor!!! 🧡💛💚💙💜🤎💗💖

TheGentleReina · June 2022

TheGentleReina · June 2022

@sillysassy, thanks for the additions!

SuperManCuddles · June 2022

Happy Pride!!! 🏳️‍🌈

Drea728 · June 2022

Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈 love is love!

DaringSprinter · June 2022

nurturingman · June 2022

This gay man thanks you for your Pride Month greetings and wishes! I often “pass” as straight, or at least people assume I’m straight, but I almost always make it a point to come out to them, such as correcting “your wife” (when they notice my wedding ring) to “my husband.” Coming out is a never ending process! Here’s love to all who have diverse sexual orientations and gender identities— and their allies! 🤟🏳️‍🌈🤝

vera23 · June 2022

Nurturingman, I love your comment! I'm non binary and every time I meet someone new that might be meaningful to my life I have to come out as not a women. Before I let ppl assume what they wanted about my gender but I realized that the people who truly care about me would respect my pronouns and gender identity

Babichev · June 2022

Oh, thank you for the reminder.

There used to be a saying, “Don’t assume I’m straight and I won’t assume that you’re gay.”

I generally don’t talk about my intimate life unless it happens to be relevant to the conversation. It’s been diverse.

In 1972 I was 19 years old and sharing an apartment with three gay men. One owned a small, eclectic book store that was a hub for the gay community. Our apartment phone was the phone number for the first gay/lesbian hotline in St. Louis. I feel fortunate to have landed in just the right place at the right time. Maybe I’ll tell a bit of that story later.

Mike403 · June 2022

I was once called a homophobe because I ate at Chick-Fil-A. Like I care what their beliefs are. They just have good chicken.

CharlieBear · June 2022

Happy pride month everyone. This will be my first year where I am at least partially out. My experience here has been so great, thank you everyone for making me feel safe and welcome.

SunsetSnuggles · June 2022

@nurturingman That's funny, I have a similar experience in our small, very conservative town...everyone assumes my boyfriend and I are married. At first I let the "wife" references slide, fearing the churchgoers, especially, might be judgemental that we live together, but now I politely correct them that I'm his girlfriend. Thankfully, there has been no backlash...just surprise, and, most ironically, forgetfulness. The same people will continue referring to me as his wife even after they already know we're not married. 🤣

~ Sunset Snuggles

DaringSprinter · June 2022

@Mike403, some potentially helpful advice:

If you're concerned about being seen as a bad person because you give money to a company run by people who want everyone who isn't cishet to stop existing, and use the money you give them to do things that hurt us....

...Just donate an equal amount of money to a pro-LGBT+ charity every time you give money to Chick-fil-A, and balance that moral negative with a moral positive!

PeopleLikeUs · June 2022

Happy Pride! 🌈🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤 🌈

applepie55 · June 2022

Happy pride month! I’m only out to a few friends, and now the cuddle community! I’m thinking this might be the year I come out to my family😬
we’re not very close anyways but it’s nerve wrecking as they are all pretty set in their ways. They still make comments and “jokes” about the 🏳️‍🌈 community.

justjennn · June 2022

Happy happy, friends!

June 2022

@applepie55 Stay strong and lean on those friends for support. You can do it. Best wishes.

CrissyKat · June 2022

Cause I'm proud to be an American. 🏳️‍🌈

applepie55 · June 2022

@Btown thank you! I will!
Love to all y’all! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

pmvines · June 2022

Part of the gift of age is that I'm able to see the differences in how folks are treated and viewed over time . For example, one of my childhood friends was disowned by his father when he came out as gay. Sad case because his father raised him as a single parent and they always had such a great relationship before that. My son is bi, though his 2 most important long term relationships have been with trans female to male so I'm sure his identity prob falls somewhere outside of simply being bi but I dont know all the terms that the kids are using these days . I am just so glad that he and his LGBTQ community/family have gained a level of acceptance and normalcy that my generation struggled to have. I by no means am saying the struggle no longer exists . It likely always will exist to an extent. I am just happy to see the struggle being less than what my friends and family experienced, and that he will never know the heartbreak of his family turning against him because of who and how he loves. His grandmother, aunts , uncles, cousins, and myself have never given him a reason to believe that what he does and how he lives is anything less than just fine.