@siriusly.pads just one of the 7 (yes, seven. Im serious) flags hanging around our house right now.
Umm, HAPPY FREAKING PRIDE MONTH!!
I've had a rollercoaster of a relationship with the LGBTQ+ community.
It started before Hogwarts. I was this young kid with such a constricted and conservative view on the world that everything I knew was a bit distorted. I grew up knowing one thing about the lgbtq+ community. Gay = bad. When I was young, I thought gay meant weird, stupid, bad, unnatural, disgusting. I thought gay was an insult.
I learned that gay not only meant happy but that it meant homosexual pretty soon after I started hearing the word gay. My parents, and my whole family, for that matter (other than Andy) we extremely homophobic and were absolute assholes, well, they still are but that's beside the point. So, naturally, I was brought up having the homophobic mindset. I was a homophobe. I thought that gay people were lesser, they were gross and that they didn't deserve human rights.
Until I realized I was one of them. I started realizing that I was not straight when the woman who birthed me would let me watch TV with her. There came times where pretty women would be on the television and every boy would freak out over how shmexy and pretty they all were. I couldn't care less.
I later realized the reason I didn't care about the pretty girls was that I was too focused on the pretty boys. And eventually I figured out that holy sh** I'm gay.
I tried with all I had to 'get it out of me'. I hated myself, all because of who I love.
All of this changed when I came to Hogwarts. I saw these kids where were so unapologetic about themselves and there sexualities that one day some older kids stood on the tables and screamed 'VIVA LA GAY! VIVA LA REVOLUTION' for about 3 minutes.
I was jealous of all of these people that were comfortable in their skin. All I had known before was that whoever you would ever come out to will disown you, hate you and cut themselves off from you as if being gay was a contagious disease.
I finally came out to the most amazing friends ever and they're response was pretty much 'yes, and?' And I believe James's exact response was 'ok. That's all cool but we need to work on this prank.' And it was a wake up call.
I came out to the school pretty unintentionally. Someone got on a table and yelled (this seems to happen a lot) 'BE GAY! DO CRIME!' And I stood up and went 'well, I'm half way done. And no, I've never committed a crime.'
I came out to school and one of my asshole cousins (not Andy) got the message to my parents.
Now here we are, burned right off the tapestry, friends with the queerlicious people ever and living with my very Sirius boyfriend (see what I did there?)
So, 7 pride flags sounds about right.
@lupin.lupout THATS MY BOYFRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this crazy man too much.
@marlsmac IM QUEERLICIOUS!!
@logicalily wow. That's amazing. I love you, dork.
@prongster this dude. I mean, he's pretty darn awesome.

@logicalily like the shirt? Me too.
So, the lgbtq+ community has always been a part of my life.
Being little and hearing about gay people through a number of places.
Coming to Hogwarts and meeting some amazing people, most of whom are gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, pansexual and queer.
Hearing homophobic slurs coming from my 'best friend' before he called me a slur.
Getting together with my boyfriend who is proud of his bisexuality.
And now, I'm here. Im bi-curious, And still figuring things out at 19 years old.
But I'm proud to say that I am an ally. Always will be no matter what I learn about myself.
I've gotten all of the weird questions, from 'do you think your boyfriend is cheating on you with a guy?' To 'how do you not know your sexuality? You're an adult!' And I'm still who I am. So try and stop me. Try and stop everyone who identifies as lgbtq+ or an ally. You will fail.
@prongster honey I promise I'm not cheating on you. You're all I could ever ask for.
@dorkalicious 👏👏👏
@marlsmac slay queen
@im.so.vancy oh the weird questions. Those are the worst!
@quitefrankly love the shirt. Why is no one taking about the shirt?

@prongster I am bisexual.
I am bisexual.
I am dating a woman, but I am still bisexual.
Nothing can change that.
Yes, I'm mainly attracted to women but come on, some guys are hot.
I am bisexual. And I am proud.
Im proud to be who I am.
Im proud of my bi-curious girlfriend.
Im proud of my gay and dating best friends.
Im proud of my lesbian and pansexual dating friends.
Im proud of every single lgbtq+ person I know because they are so brave and so amazing.
This community is incredible. Im so glad to be a part of it.

@siriusly.pads IM THE GAY BEST FRIEND
@lupin.lupout IM THE OTHER GAY BEST FRIEND
@marlsmac IM THE PANSEXUAL FRIEND
@dorkalicious IM THE LESBIAN FRIEND
@logicalily IM THE BI CURIOUS GIRLFRIEND

@dorkalicious hey look ma, I'm gay!
Not only am I gay, I'm very very very gay.
Like Maximum Gay™️.
And I have the best pansexual af girlfriend I could ever ask for.
The LGBTQ+ community has given me everything.
From friends, to love, to home, to a sick flag, I wouldn't know what to do without the community that is lgbtq+
So, let's all celebrate. No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life. (Yes I did quote Lady Gaga) lets go and celebrate. Yell at the top of our lungs, sing our gay anthems, and just be proud of ourselves and the people around is.
Cause we only got one life, so we got to live it big time.

@marlsmac you quoted 3 songs, one slightly different than the original, and did it so smoothly. Im very proud.
@siriusly.pads WE GOTTA LIVE WHILE WE'RE YOUNG
@lupin.lupout preach SISTER!
@logicalily that's my best friend!

@lupin.lupout so im kinda late to post for pride month because I may or may not have been running around with a rainbow flag screaming the lyrics to Girls/Girls/Boys by Panic! At The Disco...
ITS PRIDE MONTH BI***!
We've come so far as a community. Of course we have a long way to go but look, we can freely have pride and we can even get married! While this is all amazing, this isn't a reality for some.
Kids are disowned and kicked out of their houses, like my very own boyfriend was.
Kids harm and kill themselves because of who they love.
Kids, teenagers, adults, elders are all shamed and ridiculed for their sexualities.
People are sprayed with tear gas and are even killed for holding hands with the person they love.
People all over the globe can't legally marry the person they love.
So everyone celebrating pride, don't only celebrate for yourself, do it on behalf of the people who can't.
Think of those who options are hide yourself or die.
And celebrate. Be loud. Be proud. And no matter what you do, please blast Girls/Girls/Boys through your house.

@siriusly.pads this went from funny to happy to sad to empowering to funny. Reading this was the best mood swing ever. Also, seeing you running around scream-singing was the highlight of my life.
@logicalily don't forget the people who have died in shootings because of their sexuality and choice of a night time activity.
@im.so.vancy yes Remus. Yes.

@magicalice inspired by Sirius, I've been yelling "BE GAY! DO CRIME!" At the top of my lungs for the past 10 minutes so if I don't have a voice the next time I see you, that's why.
So, I'm bisexual. Wow. It feels really weird to be typing that out.
Maybe because I've always denied my attraction to girls (mainly Zendaya but still) or maybe it's because I was scared.
I was scared that my dad might disown me.
I was scared my mom would hate me.
I was scared my brother would stop talking to me altogether.
Well, just came out to my family and got some free ice cream out of it so thanks dad.
Even before coming out, I've had some weird LGBTQ+ related questions asked to me, all about how my boyfriend is asexual.
"Do you have sex with other people on the side?"
"How have you not cheated on him?"
"Do you have an open relationship?"
"How does the whole no sex thing work?"
"Doesn't that mean he doesn't want a girlfriend?"
"Does he use you?"
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, at first, being with an asexual person took some getting used to, but I don't give a damn anymore.
So, my boyfriend doesn't feel sexual attraction and doesn't want to have sex. Cool! Sex isn't super exciting for me either.
So let us live.
Now every single person reading this needs to lose their voice like me at pride.
Cause we can move mountains.

@quitefrankly ugh all of those questions are so weird.
@logicalily let me be the first to say: I fully support you and don't really care if you like guys and girls as long as you and Frank stay together because I ship it too much. And hell yes Zendaya is beautiful.
@lupin.lupout I kinda see what you mean about Zendaya being pretty but have you ever seen TOM HOLLAND??
@siriusly.pads omg and all of the Marvel Chris's? Hotttttttttt
@magicalice how did this go from my coming out post to a talk about all of the marvel actors being hot?
@petetail @magicalice good question.

@petetail so, yeah. Im not LGBTQ+ myself but power to the allies.
Every single ally: we need to use our privilege to stand up for those who need it.
We need to stand up for our lgbtq friends. Use your privilege as a straight person to draw awareness to the people who don't have the privilege we do.
So, come on. We may not be lgbtq, but we can still stand for them.
So let's stand for them.
@prongster yess pete👏👏
@marlsmac it's people like you who make everything a bit better.
@im.so.vancy PREACH!!

@marlsmac YEEEEEEEEEEEEE

@dorkalicious you have brought me to tears. I have never read something so beautiful
@siriusly.pads you win. The most thoughtful and beautiful caption.
@logicalily im speechless.
@im.so.vancy you truly are an incredible writer.

A/N
If you didn't get the message before:
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!
I identify as a straight female so everything Peter said is what I believe, in case you were wondering.
Sorry this chapter came out late, it took seventy freaking years to write😬
But anyway, I hope you enjoyed! Hasta la vista!
~ Brynlee