Once again - PRIDE DAY - what is it to you?

[CharleyH]

Its not just about getting laid and getting loose - there are many people who wish there was a Pride Day FOR THEM, straight, BDSM, that US Mid-western wife and even that ug, KKK member on the AH. PRIDE to me has always been about the celebration of my "own" sexuality.

What is PRIDE to you?

 

[CharleyH]

PS - As porn and erotic writers I would hope you all would be PROUD about some "sort" of sexuality? CELEBRATE IT!

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

From the time I first came out as bisexual, and then lesbian, I don't remember trying to hide who I was. I always knew something was different about me, from the time I was very little, and until I had a name for it, I hid it. Once I was out, I was out, and I was proud of it. Classmates of mine that I never would have expected to support and stand behind me, were more of a support system than I could have ever hoped for. I was the only out student at my school. I ran the Gay/Straight Alliance, became more involved with student body activities, and worked to achieve ultimate understanding and acceptance within the school.

Pride, to me, is remembering those four short years of high school, and my transformation within those four years. High school was the prologue to my personal change, as a person and a lesbian. It was my transformation, my first step to emerging from my shell.

 

[CharleyH]

From the time I first came out as bisexual, and then lesbian, I don't remember trying to hide who I was. I always knew something was different about me, from the time I was very little, and until I had a name for it, I hid it. Once I was out, I was out, and I was proud of it. Classmates of mine that I never would have expected to support and stand behind me, were more of a support system than I could have ever hoped for. I was the only out student at my school. I ran the Gay/Straight Alliance, became more involved with student body activities, and worked to achieve ultimate understanding and acceptance within the school.

Pride, to me, is remembering those four short years of high school, and my transformation within those four years. High school was the prologue to my personal change, as a person and a lesbian. It was my transformation, my first step to emerging from my shell.

Beautiful - thank you, SIMA.

I invite other sexualities also. WHAT IS IT TO BE PROUD of your sexuality?

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Beautiful - thank you, SIMA.

I invite other sexualities also. WHAT IS IT TO BE PROUD of your sexuality?

Thanks Charley

 

[CharleyH]

Just a bump because it is mucho better than white KKK TRASH.

 

[Goldie Munro]

Just a bump because it is mucho better than white KKK TRASH.

LOL!

I have been on a few Pride marches in London and for me its just a huge celebration of life - but I do hate having to use those portocabin loos - yeeeuchh!

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

I'm with Charley here...I'd love to read other responses too...

besides, it's Pride Week in Chicago...and in other places as well. Be proud...

 

[CharleyH]

I'm with Charley here...I'd love to read other responses too...

besides, it's Pride Week in Chicago...and in other places as well. Be proud...

BUMP HETERO PRIDE??

 

[Guest]

BUMP HETERO PRIDE??

Sorry.

I've been busy having great hetero sex. Midwestern wife and all.

It was great.

And I am very proud.

 

[Liar]

I don't do the carnval thingy.

Eye yam what eye yam. I don't need no bells and whistles to prove it. And I'm no less proud just because I don't join the parade. Because "PRIDE" is not about pride, but about flaunting. Now, there's nothing WRONG with flaunting, but one should call things for what they are. It's about letting your sexuality be a key definer of your identity. And those who are so inclined should go right ahead and flaunt.

Eh...forgive my grumpiness on the subject matter, but ever since it was established that I'm not the straight norm, it has been expected of me, by both straight and gay friends, that I should a) be a part of some "alternative communtiy" that I don't even know what it IS, and b) shout my sexuality from the rooftops. Or else I'm repressed. And it's annoying me to no end. Why should I do all that, based on who and how I choose to fuck?

So, Pride Day is a reminder for me that the community seems to expect me to "act the part", since I'm in a sexual minority. i know that's not the intention, but it is the effect.

 

[CharleyH]

I don't do the carnval thingy.

Eye yam what eye yam. I don't need no bells and whistles to prove it. And I'm no less proud just because I don't join the parade. Because "PRIDE" is not about pride, but about flaunting.

Jesus, you sound like my mother! As I once told her? HAPPY PRIDE DAY.

Edit to add: I forgot the hug.

 

[Liar]

Jesus, you sound like my mother! As I once told her? HAPPY PRIDE DAY.

Edit to add: I forgot the hug.

Sounds like a clever lady.

In my world, it's pride day every day. Happy Midsummer Night's eve.

 

[frozen_north]

Proud to be trisexual.

 

[AchtungNight]

Pride Day seems like it shouldn't mean much to me on the surface. I am straight and will always be straight, I have no interest in being otherwise. However, I know people who are not straight, and call many of them friends. One I call stepbrother, another I call sister, two I call lovers. I call many more acquaintances (at the very least). Other people I don't even know who are not straight, such as the actor Ian McKellen, I call admirable and worthy of all the respect they get. Pride Day is to me, a day to support these people and let them know that they have a place in this world no matter how often jerks make them feel they shouldn't. I provide such support quite often, and am glad the world has set aside a day for people to join me in that.

To me too, Pride Day is a celebration of life.

 

[Goldie Munro]

PS - As porn and erotic writers I would hope you all would be PROUD about some "sort" of sexuality? CELEBRATE IT!

This made me laugh - you would think that everyone here would be proud of sexuality whatever form it took!

For me sexuality is fluid and ever shifting - I know thats not the same for all - but lets celebrate it!

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

Pride~

I am not proud of my sexuality. I am proud to be a mother, a good woman, good Domina, a good caretaker, a good person...None of that has anything to do with who I choose to fuck (or not fuck as the case may be)..

That being said~ I don't celebrate Pride Day (week, month) because I am proud of my choice of lovers...I celebrate the strides we as people have made. I celebrate the freedom those of us who practice not so straight loving are now experiencing. I celebrate people....I celebrate love...but I am not proud of my sexuality..I am proud of the people who came before me so that I wouldn't have to be proud of it...

 

[Anniejustagirl]

for me.... Pride is more about visibility....

living in the midwest.... and the small and narrow-minded midwest at that.... Pride celebrations are a time when i am NOT an invisible minority... i'm a human being with a sexual fluidity that is accepted and embraced.... if only for the duration of the celebration... and it is a Brilliantly Powerful occurrence

 

[Guest]

BUMP HETERO PRIDE??

I'm proud to be me. Don't have a lable (although happy, horny slut might do).

I celebrate my sexuality, and the full and diverse range of it - within HET, so far - although there was once...

I digress!

I celebrate as hard and as often as possible, with somebody else who shares my tastes in the feeelthy and diverse.

I wouldn't go out and parade it, though. What would the neighbours say???

 

[Liar]

I wouldn't go out and parade it, though. What would the neighbours say???

"Hi, Lou."

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[Guest]

"Hi, Lou."

?

LOL!

 

[rgraham666]

What would the neighbours say???

Hi, Lou. We still on for tonight?