Anime con time.
I fucking love pink, bitches.
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That is a fine outfit hope many pictures were had.
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I wish I could wear cool glasses like that.
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dat hair 
Itās either early Garnet from Steven Universe, or Izzet colors in Magic. Either one is cotton-candy good.
@Apreche i know right? i wanted glasses like this forever and transitioning was the perfect excuse
@pence when I put my hair up it forms a little trans pride flag on my head. 
I will second the Dat Hair comment. The colors look AMAZING.
I really wish I could grow my hair out. However, genetics has decided that Iāll be unable to do so T_T
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Same. I grew a ponytail in high school and it just looked ridiculous. Anything longer than āslightly long for a manā ends up entering into āUncontrollable mad scientist bullshitā, and my hairās too dark to color without extensive, extensive bleaching. I can pretty much wear a side-par mid-length standard male haircut.
Ok hi!! Itās Pride Month so FYI Iām bisexual and Iām also questioning my own gender identity lately (in case that wasnāt clear ;P), things are going great! Happy Pride
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This is the first year I found out that June is pride month and I couldnāt possibly be happier. I was born in pride month! That makes me very happy! 
I want to complain about Pride on Facebook or Twitter but Iāve made some friends since I went back in the closet about my gender and I donāt really want them to know that about me and I really donāt want them to hear me say this without context. Pride hurts for me because itās a celebration of a community that largely rejected me and let me down when I needed them. They consistently told me feelings I couldnāt help were wrong and had more interest in complaining about heteronormative people than actually helping each other through their very real struggles.
I might have a more positive view of Pride, if not the community, if I lived somewhere where it was necessary. Boston Pride is thousands of people gathering around to celebrate very little. So youāre gay, what struggles have you had to endure living in Massachusetts as a gay person? Iād probably get along better with the folks at Clraksdale Pride, where saying youāre gay means something.
Really sorry to hear that, sounds like you were just around really shitty people. Iām lucky that there is a transgender/gender non-conforming community at my job that have been an excellent resource. But often, as Iām now 30, I feel that I missed out on a lot of the more formative experiences that most people have when they are young and growing up. Itās hard to feel you have to actively work really hard to fit into an already existing community, and often itās not really a simple process to fit in.
However, I will call bullshit on the idea that somehow itās less necessary to celebrate in a place like Boston than a smaller area. People still have to deal with bathroom shit, bigots, workplace retaliation/harassment, and all sorts of other bullshit regardless of the area. Not to mention that there are many people who constantly need to be reminded that LGBTQ+ people need respect and equal rights. Itās a never ending process.
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So I Googled Clarksdale Pride and all I got was a car dealership. Iāve complained about the lack of gay bars in Boston but honestly thereās three they just all suck. The closest gay bar to Clarksdale is in Jackson, 150 miles away. Massachusetts was the first state to establish same sex marriage and has outlawed discrimination against LGBT people in housing and employment. Mississippi passed a Religious Freedom law to allow businesses to not serve gay people. So yeah Iām gonna go out on a limb and say that Clarksdale needs Pride more than Boston (I chose Clarksdale since it was the first town in Mississippi I could think of, probably because Son House was from there).
Boston Pride specifically has also lost itās edge. If it was still primarily about advocacy of rights Iād feel differently, but sometime around when Delta joined on as a sponsor it stopped being political. I want queer liberation, not rainbow capitalism. But again, thatās just Boston, I know itās different elsewhere.
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I just think itās really shitty to put a value on someoneās identity based on the fact of the hostilities they face because of it. Itās not a fucking competition. My identity means something not because itās an act of defiance, but because itās who I am.
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I donāt value identity at all. I value accomplishments. Sometimes identity means you accomplished something. Sometimes it doesnāt.
I mean considering that Mass tended to be on the leading curve of gay rights, wouldnāt that denote they did accomplish something?
Iām not saying Boston shouldnāt have Pride, Iām just explaining why I donāt care for it.
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