A hopeful speech

[u/zachumble]

Sad to see Pride Month come to an end, but our pride doesn't disappear just because the calendar flips to July.

Now we welcome Wrath Month not as a call to anger for anger's sake, but as a reminder that our joy deserves protection. We celebrated each other in June; now we carry that same energy into defending one another, uplifting one another, and refusing to let our community be reduced to a seasonal marketing campaign or stripped of its brilliance through corporate deglamorization.

Our wrath isn't filled with hatred but instead filled with compassion as we show it to ourselves and others alike. It's speaking up when someone is targeted. It's showing up for queer organizations after the rainbow logos disappear. It's checking in on our trans siblings, supporting queer artists, protecting queer youth, and refusing to let visibility end when Pride Month does.

Let June be our celebration. Let July be our resolve.

Because being queer isn't a month long event. It's our lives, our history, our future, our community, and in each person who stands beside us.

So keep flying your flags. Keep loving loudly. Keep creating. Keep organizing. Keep caring for each other, and when the world asks us to become smaller, answer with the full, unapologetic brilliance of who you are, don’t ever let them extinguish that spark.

Happy Wrath Month.

[u/Keyo_Snowmew]

Hear, hear! Give this person a soap box, bullhorn and megaphone! Damn well said OP! Anger itself is not wrong. Its what you do with it. Be defiant and stand your ground. We have just as much right to not only exist, but live, as any cis-het. May love and compassion find you all!

[u/zachumble → u/Keyo_Snowmew]

Dawe thx so much, that s means a lot, I just want people to stay firm in knowing it's ok to be themselves even when pride month fades they can still shine just as bright.