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In honor of Pride month, some R29ers, who are members of the LGBT community, tell us what it means to celebrate Pride and what it means to them!

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00:00Pride to me means being visible and safe in a community that is largely invisible
00:05and unsafe in my regular life.
00:08It means power. It means self-expression. I think we live in a really fucked up
00:13world that really that like wants to like smudge me and other people like me
00:18out. It's powerful to be prideful.
00:21For me pride is much bigger than the LGBTQ community. It's a parade of freedom and
00:28equality for everyone. When I'm there with my friends celebrating our rights and
00:34the rights that we don't have, I also celebrate my allies that are there with
00:39me. The love that we have for each other makes us all one and the same.
00:48Pride to me in two words would be visibility and safety. Pride is unconditional joy.
00:55There's no right or wrong way to celebrate pride. However, you choose to be prideful
01:00is the right way for you.
01:01Hi, my name is Ash and I'm a proud dyke.
01:04Hi, I'm Michael Brown and I am proud.
01:07My name is Landon and I am free.
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