This year, #pride has been a new experience. I’ve been fortunate enough to have joined the boa
This year, #pride has been a new experience. I’ve been fortunate enough to have joined the board at @warnermedia’s NYC chapter for our employee LGBTQ group! Strategizing and hosting events for PRISM members this month has been incredibly rewarding and amazing. I had the humbling opportunity to talk about LGBTQ stories with students at @saysi_sa, my alma mater for a media arts education before college. Last but not least, I was featured at WarnerMedia for an employee spotlight about myself and having pride as a member of the LGBTQ community. I learned more about our community’s history and also shared my story with more people than I ever could have imagined. I was able to celebrate us and try to foster safer spaces for others! • But I also have a confession to make. I’ve spent this whole month at my mom’s in my hometown. As much as I love my parents, I think most people would be surprised to know when I go home, it feels like I’m climbing back into the closet. And I’ve gotta say, it’s a lot harder to deal with than I can put into words. I choose to be as open about my identity in all ways with my friends, my coworkers, strangers, social media, but I can’t be that with my parents, more in particular, my mom. I live without sharing my achievements with the people who made me, raised me, and it makes me sad but also ashamed because I try to advocate for our community to be open and vulnerable with others and I hate that I can’t follow the path completely in all parts of my life. • But! I am still grateful. I have amazing friends, my chosen family, other supportive extended family, and coworkers. I hope one day I get the strength to not only be the good oldest child to my parents, but also to be as close to them as I wish we could be. But until then, I hope to continue to lead by example in the rest of my life and be the person I needed when I was younger. I hope I can be proof to any person out there that longed to see themselves that they too have a wonderful life ahead of them. • Happy #PrideMonth! I love y’all [09:42pm | 06.30.2021] (at San Antonio, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQxKetWFsXy/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link
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