 Why am I proud? I'm proud because it took me years to understand who I am. I grew up in a place that told me my queerness wasn't possible. I didn't see people like me in movies, in church, in school, and I'm proud because despite all of this, after 10 years of lying to myself, I still figured out who I am. And I'm proud of us. I'm proud of generations of LGBTQ people who have been told that we are less than, not enough, not even worthy of God's love, and yet we're here and we're surviving. So yeah, of course we're proud. Our identities are miracles.