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It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

Celebrating Pride Month on the SANE Forums

The month of June is Pride Month, and we will be celebrating with a discussion here on the forums.

Pride Month is a time to celebrate our LGBTQIA+ Community, and on the Forums we will continue to elevate the discussions that we started during the 🏳️‍🌈 IDAHOBIT: Week long discussion 🏳️‍🌈 in May 2021.

Pride Month was born from a social justice movement, and continues to be a time for advocacy and empowerment of the LGBTQIA+ Community. We celebrate those that have come before, and to strive for social change to address the key issues that are still faced by the community. All across the world, there are community events celebrating Pride!

How will we be celebrating on the SANE Forums?

This discussion will be open for the month of June, with a new question every week. We will be building on some of the key themes and messages that were shared in the 🏳️‍🌈 IDAHOBIT: Week long discussion 🏳️‍🌈 and below you can see some of the key quotes fellow forumites shared.

To get involved, check back in each Monday for the new question. There will be questions about your experience, how you are celebrating pride month, the role models you look up to and an opportunity to share resources, books, artworks, events and activities.

You can get involved by:

  • Making a post in repsonse to each question
  • Supporting posts made by other members
  • Reading along
  • Sharing how you will be celebrating pride month this year

There are lots of organisations in Australia who have events, resources and activities for Pride Month, so feel free to share them here too!

Here is an overview of some of the key messages from the SANE Forums from our IDAHOBIT discussion last month:

Check back in on Monday the 7th of June for our first question! If you would like to be tagged when each new question is posted, click the "support" button on this post and we will make sure to notify you.

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Open and honest discussions about social justice are really important, and we are committed to making this discussion a safe space for LGBTQIA+ people to share their experiences, thoughts and ideas. To keep this safe space and respect the experiences of our community, we ask that all members refresh their understanding of the community guidelines in advance so that we can make this discussion inclusive and welcoming.

If you have any questions about this month long discussion, you are welcome to email our Community Managers at team@saneforums.org

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In response to: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

Some brilliant quotes here about what Pride means to us:

"Pride means loving ourselves for who we are and loving all those around us and allowing them to be their authentic selves without imposing limits or judgements. Pride is love!" - @Oaktree

"Pride for me is being able to show true colours and finding others who stand beside together. Pride is a community. Pride is helping change." - @petrichor

"Pride to me means way more that rainbows, it means the ability to represent ourselves for who we are, being part of society without repercussions. It means safety, it means relationships, it means honesty. It's taking back the right to be human." - @Rebel.

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

I'm late catching up on SANE action, as is usual lately! Happy to be tagged here, thanks @Daisydreamer @petrichor

Happy PRIDE month to all here and following along.

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

I just had to share this. It's a funny pride story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAzwvwMSWo&t=173s

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

What is pride to me?

Pride is strength. Pride is affirmation that our sex, gender identity, or sexuality are healthy the way they are, not a problem to be fixed or something to be ashamed of. Pride is demanding our rights and fighting for each other. Pride is remembering the most marginalised in our communities- who are often left out from mainstream pride discourse- and platforming them. Pride is wanting to do more than survive- it's wanting to thrive and be happy. Pride is community. Pride is joy and celebration. Pride is inspiration and love 😊

Happy Pride Month ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤💗🤍

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

In a world that tries to make us feel ashamed for being who we are, we stand with pride knowing we are defiant in the face of adversity. Happy Pride everyone!

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

Happy Pride Month everyone!! xx

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

I am proud to be an ally. I have had some beautiful loud and proud gay friends over the years and to me what has always stood out the most is the courage, strength, respect, love, joy and confidence they all have in living their truths.

So when I think of pride, that's what I think of, my gay friends all living and loving their truths and not giving a hoot what the world thinks. xx

BB 🐰💙

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

I had a moment as an "ally" in a supermarket aisle this week. 2 people were talking and then bent together and gently kissed through lovely cloth masks. I was less than a metre away and passing through but laughed and said "thats beautiful". It was only as I spoke that I realised they were both women.

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

Thank you to everyone who has joined in the first week of our discussion for Pride Month! @Appleblossom @bipolarbunny @Former-Member @Former-Member @wellwellwellnez @eth @Oaktree @petrichor @Rebel @Former-Member @Schitzo @Clawde

Building on our last question about what pride means to you...

How will you be celebrating pride month?

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

I'm not celebrating as such @Daisydreamer because I believe in PRIDE every day of every month. But it is a good time to remind and educate those who are not allies. e.g. my Godmother who continues to use my adult child's dead name after 12 years since they came out as transgender F to NB. I find it frustrating in particular when trying to explain to my mother's generation. Most of them just won't open their minds, particularly to new ways of using pronouns etc. Godmother actually expected my NB adult child to be pushing that onto their children, when the whole point is that people can be/choose their own identity, find their own authenticity. My 7 year old grandchild is clear about being she/her and that's fine. My 2 1/2 year old grandchild is just starting to experiment with pronouns for toys etc and will make their own preferences clear in the not too distant future. But their preferences at this young age are not necessarily forever. Being gender fluid is another of the options!!

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Re: It's Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Join the discussion here

Our question for this week is all about celebrating role models and people we look up to in the LGBTQIA+ Space:

Are there people in the community that you look up to? Feel free to share stories, articles, songs, books, videos by your idols/those you look up to and why what they do is important to you

(Just a reminder for this activity it is okay to share videos, music, images, books etc that are publicly available if they also include a recognition of the author. Some of our idols and role models might be friends, family and loved ones- it's okay to share why they are important to you, just be mindful of their anonymity too).

@Appleblossom @bipolarbunny @Former-Member @Former-Member @eth @wellwellwellnez @Oaktree @petrichor @Rebel @Former-Member @Schitzo @Clawde

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