#Pride 365

[girl4music]

Wow. Yeah, I think this just goes to show how backwards and twisted we’ve actually got it as a majority social community or a collective consciousness if oppression and suppression seems to be the grave treatment of every and all minorities.

So many famous people (which I do consider a ‘minority’) - actors, singers, writers, philanthropists - are coming out and coming home to their true authentic selves because of how much the art/entertainment industry just restricts and limits them.

To hear Dom speak about their journey and experience all the while living in the spotlight as a famous actor and talking about how much fear and shame and anxiety they felt at being able to live authentically. I won’t lie - I welled up a bit because I can imagine that it is much more difficult for famous people to do this knowing they have a reputation and they don’t want to let anyone down or make them feel alienated. But at the end of the day, they’re human beings too and they need to be able to express themselves as they truly are just as much as we non-famous people do. And at the end of the day art/entertainment is made to express, not impress. Appeasing others is overrated - and whether conscious or not - is a violence of self.

I’m very proud of Dom for being brave and strong enough in heart to do what must have been the most difficult thing they’ve ever done as a human being on this planet - and to do it publicly and transparently as their journey into self-acceptance and self-love continues. I assume that Kat helped them since she came out first and was immediate support for them. And I know that the LGBTQ Earpers rallied behind Dom immediately too. They’re not alone and never will be. It’s an intimidating journey but well worth treading through and on until we get to our most authentic self.

As Tracy said - you could live most of your life and still keep realizing and learning things about yourself. So the journey never ends. It just becomes less scary because at that point you’ve experienced enough life to know how best to navigate through it. Or so I’m told. I don’t know how true that is being young myself. I am where Dom is at. 30-something year old and constantly being thrown left, right and center by the Universe because it wants me to come home to it. And I trust my higher self to guide and direct me onwards.

Sometimes I think that this confusing LGBTQ stuff really is just a way to help us come home to our truth as human beings after being so estranged from it and forgetting that we are just as much a part of the Universe as a star or planet is. We’re not separated. We just live as if we are and it’s completely wrong.

I believe all this “starting the wave” business really is just us aligning with our fundamental beginnings again because we’ve strayed so far from that very process due to centuries of lies and betrayals and repressions. We lost the plot a bit. So now we’re coming back to it one step at a time because it’s what the Universe or God or whatever higher power we believe in asks of us in order to heal the wounds that we’ve caused and effected in us all as a collective consciousness. And we’ve come so far but we have got so very far to go.

I am obviously very supportive of the LGBTQ community and part of it myself as a bisexual but I do think we rely on it too much to recognize and define ourselves. We’re letting the letters be the experience instead of allowing the experience to carry us through. I genuinely feel that people are far too caught up on the labels of identity and sexuality and not living them. The experiences and interactions that simultaneously lift us up higher and ground us when we need them to. I talk about gender identity and sexuality a lot but I very rarely ever use the labels because I just don’t think they’re all that relevant to the process of coming out and coming home to our true authentic selves and I think eventually when we’re wiser as a collective consciousness, we will discard the labels and letters because we will no longer need them to be authentic and align ourselves with what we’re supposed to be before all the bullshit pushed us so far away from it.

Gender identity and sexuality is but a crossroads on the journey of spirit. It’s what we have to cross to get to the other side where we’re really meant to be. We can and will use it for the meanwhile, but ultimately we’ll just leave it behind like everything else we do. If it’s what people need to elevate themselves in their evolution, that’s great because it’s certainly a step in the right direction. But I just know that it won’t last. Whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer… or any other word or term of reference, it doesn’t matter as much as we seem to think that it does. We will eventually get to this understanding and drop it and instead just allow ourselves to be human beings.

[wednesdayshadow]

[tllgrrl]

Did you know that Los Angeles County’s Department of Mental Health has a history of the LGBTQ+ Flag(s) on their website? They do!

[writerobscura]

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Batala Philly banging away as the parade got moving. --sorry I don't have more pics, I was having too much fun.

[thedancingsoldier]

[alwaysbewoke]

[ky-landfill]

Mayhaps some birdflash for pride? 👉👈

[dreams-in-blk]

Janelle Monáe, Marsai Martin & Chloe Bailey

[theprojectfabulosity]

Project Fabulosity Go-To ~

Divos Supporting Divos ~

Wishing Everyone a Beautiful One ✨

Jeremiah Project Fabulosity

[froginninjago]

Day 156: Movie verse Pride Month

[wednesdayshadow]

[tredawakandan]

Been Following Goddess Aayanna for years now. Love her talks about Black Men & Women/Black Love. This right here was a well needed message 👌🏿. Shout-out to my fellow folks who don't fall for the dumb media portrayals of how are folks supposedly are depicted. Simply stop watching/listening to anything mainstream and actually go out & meet genuine real folks🤷🏿‍♂️💯💯

[kcyars520]

[mimi-0007]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[11oh1]

[cyarskj1899]

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