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Every June is Pride Month for millions of Queer people around the world. Pride is a celebration of all of the accomplishments, trials, tribulations, and heartache that the community has faced and made it through. In recent years it has become more and more of a political crosshair, hot topic, talking point for many conservative politicians and religious officials. However, the basic idea behind the whole point of Pride is one of freedom and liberty. Freedom to live, to have the very same basic rights as heterosexual couples. The ability to marry, have a family, and just exist.
Views have shifted over the decades, but we still find ourselves fighting over these very basic freedoms. We have people who have weaponized the bible, and other religious texts or ideologies to make their point. You have politicians who are making laws based on these ideals, which in the United States is illegal as Religion and Politics are never to crossover based on the Constitution and other rights that were established when the country was formed. No one has the right to tell another person how they can live their life, as long as it is not hurting others. And someone being a member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community hurts no one, yet violence is hurled upon the community time and time again. We have seen entire establishments bombed and people gunned down. We have found bodies of people who were unfortunately taken from us way to soon. Such persons as Brandon Tina, Matthew Sheapard, are just some of the more famous names that top that list. And for what reason? Because someone thinks that them living their life is wrong?
I have always defended the Gay Community. I have friends, and family who are part of that community. And I stand fast in my defense of them and their rights to live. Because their rights are my rights. What happens in one community eventually translates into another until all persons are finally affected by the laws, and constraints envelope everyone.
Regardless of your own personal opinions of the LGBTQIA community, we must make steps toward a future where everyone is respected and protected. You may not agree with it, but that doesn't mean that you should want those within that community to suffer. That is someone's loved one, someone's child, and what if that person was your loved one, or your own child? Would you still want them hurt, killed, or restricted in their living?
