Maybe you’ve always known.
Maybe you’re still figuring it out.
You are real and you are worthy of love.
You deserve to be not just SAFE in your love, but CELEBRATED in your love. In your Life.
I am sorry for my years of delusion and confusion.
For shouting “No she’s not!” Thinking I was defending you. “No he’s not!” Thinking I was helping.
I could have shouted “So? What’s it to you? What’s your problem?”
I’m sorry. We were children, I didn’t know. I thought I was helping.
I was afraid of myself, my differences. I knew, even then, to be Other was to be Wrong. To be Feared. So I claimed we were the Same.
What a horrible insult.
I am truly sorry.
How wonderful it is the we are Different. That there are more than just two ways to Be.
Happy Pride. I’m proud of you. I’m proud of us. And all the queer little turtles still in their shells— I’m proud of you too.
There are so many ways to Be. So many ways to love.
And I love y’all.
Xox
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