🌈Happy Pride Month🏳️‍🌈Celebrating Diversity and Love with Pride - Page 32

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Power move!!! 🥳 ✨✨hope he unlearns the homophobic behaviour ✨✨

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Happy last day of Pride 🏳️‍🌈

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When Pride month rolls every June, the LGBTQ+ community and our allies gear up to celebrate our identity and humanity while preparing to protest against discrimination and systemic oppression. It’s a season when LGBTQ+ issues take center stage, when every gay anthem becomes a protest song, and when every rainbow becomes a political statement.

Now that Pride Month is coming to an end, we need to focus on the follow-through of what we chant about and march for in our protests. Now, more than ever, we must continue to spark discourse on gender and sexual orientation.

Whether you identify as LGBTQ+ or as an ally, you have more than enough options to keep fighting for equality and acceptance.

Here are some suggestions to make every month Pride Month:

1. Have conversations with and about LGBTQ+ people and issues. Cliché as it may seem, it can be as simple as listening and talking to each other about things that matter. Conversations are an easy way to raise awareness levels even when the media spotlight and public attention aren’t focused on LGBTQ+ issues.
2. Let’s advocate for LGBTQ+ policies. Our oppression is systemic. These systems control our lives and rob us of our rights, freedoms, and dignity.
3. Attend or host events that are LGBTQ+ inclusive. Pride events can and do happen all the time, just as any event can also include people of any SOGIE. You can support films, art, music, talks, and other work by LGBTQ+ people. If you organize events yourself, why not consider featuring LGBTQ+ artists, performers, and speakers? Let’s celebrate, and celebrate with Pride.
4. Join organizations that share your vision and aspirations. Connect with fellow advocates within your community in efforts to discuss, educate, and campaign for the rights of the LGBTQ+ Filipinos. Pride started off as a riot and a campaign for political advancement. Let’s build on the work of past LGBTQ+ activists and let’s continue to advocate for equality together.
5. Continue supporting LGBTQ+ business owners, writers, and artists. Systemic discrimination can limit the economic opportunities of many members of the LGBTQ+ community. When money is there to talk, make sure you put your money in good hands. Let’s support LGBTQ+ businesses, works, and events so that the community not only survives, but thrives.

We still have a long way to go in fighting for acceptance. One month of Pride is not enough when the LGBTQ+ community still experiences violence and discrimination all year round.

Pride doesn’t have to end in June. Let’s work together to make every month Pride Month for everyone.

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“Pride is a celebration, but it shouldn’t stop after that one day of you waving your flags and marching with other human rights groups,” Castillo said.

“It needs to continue when you get home, when you get to your work. It needs to seep into the different parts of your circles, and even beyond your circles. Go to urban poor communities, go to rural areas and reach out. It’s not just that one day,” Castillo added.

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My country, Canada, still has discrimination against blood donors, requiring three months of abstinence for men who have sex with men.

The policy is supposed to change this year, no later than September 30, to asking whether a blood donor (regardless of gender or sexual orientation) has "had new or multiple sexual partners in the last three months," and if that is anal sex, the donor has to wait three months.

Why is it not a problem when someone who had vaginal sex with a new partner or multiple partners wants to donate blood without waiting three months?

Shouldn't donors who didn't use condoms have to wait three months, just in case STD infections won't be detected by routine screening of the blood?

Equality is so frustratingly slow!

In one of my fan fictions (Chapter Twenty-One), I revealed a character as HIV positive. My intention was to include this detail and relate it to his sexual behaviour (not his orientation) without limiting him as a romantic lead.

https://www.indiaforums.com/fanfiction/1763

Are there any other fan fictions on India Forums that have HIV positive characters?