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Melancholia In Time Of Dancing & Bears
People shouldn't be open about their sexuality. Cis folk don't worry about it, and LGBTQ+ folk shouldn't worry as well. By not being heterosexual, we have the added stress that we need to reveal our sexual preference(s). At 48 years old, I am still not open about my sexuality. Family and some friends still think that I'm waiting for a woman to make an honest man out of me.
By Will Coronel3 years ago in Pride
High Notes In The Shower
I swear I use to battle with myself on what I was suppose to like growing up. I somehow found women so attractive and it killed me to think I was weird or nasty. I remembered how I crushed so hard on a girl when I was in the 8th grade. I couldn't really shake the feeling of liking a girl. Maybe I was born that way. I would come home from school and hop straight in the shower. I would have my speaker on the opposite side of the curtain and I would sing to the top of my lungs. I never really knew if I sounded good or not; nobody ever complained. My song playlist would go on for ever and all my greatest hits would play. I would sing and think about my crush. I swear my music helped me understand my new found attraction to other girls like me. Then as I got older I heard Lady Gaga's "Born this Way".. I just knew she made that song for me.
By Dominique Gray3 years ago in Pride
Proud to be Bisexual and Proud to be married to a Heterosexual Man.
I didn't come out as bisexual for a really long time. In fact, my own mother has never met any of the girlfriends I had before I married, though she has met many of my past boyfriends (many of who she didn't like!). I didn't even know what bisexuality was when I was young, I just knew that I had an attraction to both men and women that went beyond sex. It was deeply emotional, psychological, sexual and extremely strong. I couldn't describe it or put a name on it. I just knew that I was more than capable of loving both.
By Carol Townend3 years ago in Pride
Dancing Out of the Closet
If there's one thing that would spring first to mind if you ask my loved ones what they think of when they think of me, it's THEATRE. It's not just my job, gentles and lady-men. It's a lifestyle. So, of course, in fitting "me" fashion, when I came out, I did it in public, and I did it to music. I was simultaneously appearing in two musical, and completely queer, productions. So the music that helped me find myself, from those two shows, takes the top spots on my playlist for Pride 2021
By Mx. Stevie (or Stephen) Cole3 years ago in Pride