Pride & Community

Shame them:
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Cleo Fields (LA-06)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Eugene Vindman (VA-06)

>“Canada, we are well-known to build equality, caring, and we stand up for each other, and that is so special,” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow told a room of over 100 prominent Canadian queer people and allies last Tuesday at Uncloseted Media’s first Canadian fundraiser at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.

>“Right now, people are not really reading news. … So you have to cut through a whole lot in order to capture people’s imaginations. You have to really dig deep because truth matters. That’s why journalism matters,” she told the crowd.

>“If we don’t have truth, we have this,” she said, pointing to Uncloseted Media stories covering anti-LGBTQ movements on a TV screen. “Can I call it bullshit? Homophobic bullshit!”

>In a time when so many politicians have ditched LGBTQ rights or watered down their support, Mayor Chow’s unfiltered remarks were refreshing.

I find that I'm mostly attracted to females in day to day life.

The main reason I only ever started to feel attracted to men is because I saw some guys that had this short unshaven stubble look and I found it quite attractive for some reason. Can't explain why, I just did.

Hi everyone, I’m a man and recently I’ve had sex with a man for the first time. I’ve always been really attracted to men and always wanted to have sex with them, but when it finally happened it just felt ok, which surprised me because I’ve kinda been obsessed with it and thought it would be amazing but it was just ok and not something I really wanna do often or ever maybe, I’m not sure if this is the effect of porn or something else. Also nothing wrong happened or anything like that, plus I was in love with this man too.

Did anyone experience something like this?

(there’s no question tag so unless you can add it I’ll just use random ones) like I’m not talking about sapphics or lesbians because they’re not exclusive to women I’m asking if there’s a wlw exclusive sexuality so it’s only cis and trans WOMEN. sorry if it sounds odd

I (25M) have just had my first night of actual sex with a man. I've considered myself as bisexual since I was 16 and had kissed many men throughout my whole life. But for a few reasons (living with parents and still closeted, being in monogamous relationships with women, and so on) I had never done more than sucking a dick. I've always been more attracted to women, but also liked kissing men and always had sexual fantasies with being fucked by a guy and sucking his dick. I always knew that I was a bottom. Last night I went on a date with a guy and decided to take him to my place afterwards. We had an amazing time and I really liked being fucked by him and seeing him cum while inside of me, but I still didn't manage to mantain an erection through most of our intercourse. Does this mean I'm not actually bi?

My wife passed away a while ago, and one of the things I respected most about her was that she was always honest with me, even when conversations were uncomfortable. After losing someone like that, you start seeing dishonesty very differently.

We were always very open in our relationship, so none of this is really about sex or jealousy. During our marriage, my wife had occasional relations with another woman from a couple we were close to. I knew about it, I never cared, and there was never betrayal on my side because honesty was always part of the understanding.

Now, years later, that couple is going through a divorce, and the woman involved completely denies anything ever happened despite everyone around the situation basically knowing it did. I’m also the godfather of their children, which makes the whole thing feel even heavier and more personal than random relationship drama.

I don’t really know what the ethical move is anymore. Stay quiet because the past is the past? Speak honestly because pretending reality didn’t happen feels wrong?

The irony is that the openness never damaged anything for me. The rewriting of reality afterward is what feels disturbing.

we've been friends for a week but we've kinda had sexual tension since the first day lol. so we hung out today and i brought them sour skittles cuz they briefly mentioned that they liked them and they were so happy. then we got high and watched south park and scary movie 2 and i was waiting for them to ask me to make out but they didn't so i asked 😜😜😜

then we said we'll see each other tomorrow cuz we both go to the same weekly queer mixer event lolol i love being gay this is the first time smthg like this has happened to me :3

Real talk here and this will probably make some mad. I know this is going to get push back but I don’t even care because it needs to be said. We all know the type that I’m talking about.

Being the “sassy gay friend” isn’t cute. You’re not funny for putting down the women in your life on their weight, appearance, clothing, etc. You’re being insufferable and a bully. You’re not Regina George, and it’s weird that you idolize Regina George in the first place when the literal entire point of the movie was to show that they’re MEAN. Being a grown adult and thinking that being mean to others is a personality trait is embarrassing

If you’re this type- just know that you should be held accountable for your crappy actions. Your girl friends that you terrorize are tired of your crap and you using “but I’m just one of the girls teehee 🥰” as an excuse. The men in your life are tired of your crap and you treating them like garbage because you use the excuse that your viciousness is quirky.

Christ. Some of ya’ll really do make all of us look bad.

Hello (17m) and im a gay feminine boy. I’ve been depressed my whole life and have tried to take it away because I hated everything about me. I grew up in a religious household and I was extremely bullied in school. I liked watching girl shows, movies and my favorite color was pink. My parents thought I wasn’t “normal” and they’d always try and correct the way I am. I started to not like myself and was in a very dark place. I felt like I wasn’t even a boy but trapped inside a boys body. I’d always cry and pray to God (that’s what I thought would “fix” me). When I started high school I liked this one boy and he was “straight” allegedly. We became very close but he was homophobic to me infront of other people (I guess he was ashamed when ppl were around us). I started to like him very much and he did as well. He’d even buy me secret flowers when i was very sad. Eventually we stopped talking because he couldn’t bare to be around me and get called names. The last text he sent me was “ if you were a girl, I’d 100% date you and love you, but we can’t be together im sorry”. I cried like crazy and I didn’t eat food. My parents thought I was possessed or was going through something. They tried to take me to church but I told them that it was a cult and I never want to go there ever. They cried and told me that’s the only way you can be saved ( I still refused). Fast forward now, my mother took me to the doctors because she got very worried. When I arrived, the doctor was talking to me and asking me what’s wrong. I never told anyone about me feeling trapped in a boys body so I told the doctor. He was very concerned and told me that i have gender dysphoria. I didn’t really understand and he said that I might be “trans”. Of course he told my mother and she went insane. She started crying and said why I never told her any of this stuff. I told her that in her religion it’s prohibited to be gay and she said that’s not true. We went home and she waited and told my dad everything. He cried as well and told me that if im actually thinking that im a girl. I said yes and he didn’t say anything after. I don’t know what to do, im very confused about everything. I never knew I was trans, I thought it could never happen to me. I’m really sad and confused right now and idk what i should do.