I painted my nails for the first time, in pursuit of understanding my gender.
How have you liked it? I felt like I couldn’t pick anything up when I first tried it. What color did you choose?
I love it! The color variety was certainly overwhelming, but i settled on a dark blue.
I’m not big on the main parade, but I love the smaller community marches, and make sure to join them if I can. So, Toronto trans march and dyke march, for sure :)
I’m playing bass for a production of Kinky Boots if that’s anything. I’m also working up the courage to come out to my close friends.
I’m trying to do this too, I’m already out to some friends, but I want to come out to my best friend and that’s going to be huge for me.
I’m hoping to attend a pride event in-person (I’ve never been to one!) but I’ll have to travel because my city does pride in the fall. Not sure if that will work out :/
You live in GA? :P Atlanta pride is some fun, but it is very busy. If you’re looking for something a bit more intimate, Savannah pride has been wonderful when I’ve gone.
Thanks for the suggestion! I don’t live in GA, but I do have family there.
Going to my first Pride not-single
Got nonbinary laces for the boots I wear, and a couple of rainbow bracelets to wear. Painted my nails red, orange, green, blue and purple, (one colour on each nail). Joined an LGBT+ forum.
Sadly not a lot, well I have to coming out to my employers this month because of my name change (because anyway they will see that my name is now Lily on the pay), they are probably the last people I want to say it. I also bought a pin to put on my shirts with my name and my pronouns, so that’s also a plus!
I would love to go to pride, but in my city, there’s no pride. But next year i’m going in a bigger city and I will always celebrate pride there
Orlando is objectively a queer friendly city, but they don’t have any pride events in June.
There’s an unofficial event each June called “Disney World Gay Days” (not affiliated with Disney themselves, who just treat it like any other summer day), so Orlando moved their pride celebration to October instead. I think it’s understandable, but it always sucks to feel left out from the rest of the queer community.
I’ve actually have never been to Pride, since other things tend to conflict, and social anxiety in general. This year, I will definitely participate (motivated by the phrase: “Pride is a Protest”). I’ve been “openly queer” for the last 5ish years, but I haven’t been “openly trans”, but I’m taking steps to own that identity, at least more openly. Perhaps people can clock me as trans, but no one ever says anything, so i think I might currently qualify as “stealth”, but I feel like I don’t pass. Just in that weird superposition.
I have at least one symbolic gesture I want to make this June. I play Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby, and I want to fly the trans flag during my player intro. It’s a very small thing to do, but trans athletics has been under attack, so I feel like choosing to be a visible trans athlete is something i need to do
I’m a derby skater as well, and the only trans athlete I know is a FTM transman who beat out two dozen dudes to make the Team USA Mens team. I’m glad our sport is generally welcoming to a diverse group of people.
I love the idea of flying a trans flag during your intro.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how polyamory plays into my queerness - I’m lucky enough to have significantly expanded my local chosen family since Pride in 2021, and over the last year our housing situation has gotten much more stable.
I think that I’m almost more committed to polyamory than I am to bisexuality, as a label. I certainly face more problems as a polyamorous person than as a bi one.
Going to my first pride! I’ve also been really wanting to meet queer people IRL and am going to be volunteering at my local pride events :)
I kind of want to check out my cities local pride events, but I also REALLY get overwhelmed by crowds, noise, and such. Also I don’t really have anyone to go with. So I might just celebrate and online. I’ll probably just buy a really trashy wlw book or two and read? I’ll be open to reading suggestions lol.
You might like hanging out on the sidelines of the staging area for the parade? You get to see everything and everyone excited and getting ready, but music isn’t playing yet and there isn’t a crowd watching until outside the staging area.
Went on a date with both members of a married couple, that’s probably the queerest thing so far. And hardly planned it this way but I’m gonna be having facial feminisation surgery in a couple of weeks, so guess that counts?
I’ll try to fit in as much gay shit as I possibly can, but that’s hardly unique to June.
If anyone has any queer nonfiction books to suggest, give me all the suggestions. I’m stuck in bed, and also barely any amount of queer anyway, so that’s the only queer thing I’d be able to do.
Edit: I should add that I can only do audiobooks, so apologies in advance if I don’t have access to your suggestion.
Wish I could wear my rainbow dress but it’s way to hot to do that lmao. I need better garb for pride month lmao.
I’m working mostly from home, but when I’m in the office I will always wear some kind of pride shirt this month. Otherwise there is not that much happening, at least in RL. We do not have Pride here, “only” Christopher Street Day but that’s in July. But I plan to attend there (it’s more like a demo, not a parade). Maybe I will finally get in contact with the local queer community. I’m not very social, so I don’t like to attend events alone. But pride month might give me a little push :)
