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Enjoy free returns within 30 days of the order ship date. I may not be the best example of this, but I am trying to do my best.Enjoy free Fast shipping on orders made using a account. We have the strength to push on and be who we truly are. The ability to do the right thing even when no one is cheering you on. As crippling and exhausting this could be to a Latino writer who's beat includes LGBTQ+ content, I've decided to refocus my thoughts on pride and make it about resilience. All these behaviors make what I considered invisible homophobia prevalent within my biological network. From my family being disgusted by my proclamation of homosexuality to them refusing to show any age appropriate LGBTQ+ content to younger children. This past year, I've been slowly peeling back what I thought was a passive acceptance layer and discovered it's actually invisible homophobia that lied underneath. Throughout the years, my immediate family has been skirting around the LGBTQ+ topic and I merely took it as their form of passive acceptance. Getting back to Houston's song, I think it is so praised within the gay community not just because of the iconic late diva herself, but because of what it says: 'I need a man who’ll take a chance, on a love that burns hot enough to last/I wanna dance with somebody/feel the heat with somebody.with somebody who loves me.' Love has evolved in so many ways (online dating, polyamory, social canons, sexual liberation, etc.) but in the end it is the same premise: we all wanna be with someone that understands us, makes us go crazy, be better people…or just wanna dance with somebody who loves us."Īs the writer of this story, I felt it was important to showcase what pride means to me: Pride provides a plethora of different emotions, but this year the strongest sensation is emotional resilience. We as human beings, all have the need to feel loved, accepted and a part of a community or more importantly a part of someone’s life. What pride means to me is having the freedom to love whoever you want to. It is a privilege that took a long way with a road paved by the fight of brave people looking for justice and equality.
"Some people might think that pride is just an excuse to dress up or do a parade full of flamboyance and dance to Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody, but in the end it is the ultimate celebration of diversity and acceptance, a right and visibility that were not given to many LGBTQ+ people before our generation.
The world, just as it is, is already a vivid riot of technicolor and it would actually require a lot of work to try to pretend otherwise.”
The cameras were rolling in technicolor the whole time, but the interior of the house and the entire back side of Judy Garland's body double had all been meticulously hand-painted sepia tone for the camera to pass through on its way to Oz. It might be hard to imagine now, but in the late '30s this was actually accomplished by a practical effect. Many smarter people than me have written so much already about the thousand and one queer metaphors in The Wizard of Oz, but my personal favorite is this one little production detail: When the twister drops her house in Oz, there is a shot of Dorothy opening the door from black and white into color and it was done as one seamless shot. We get to all gather and drink and have fun and see each other and know we were never alone and there isn't actually anything all that unusual about us. “Pride to me isn't so much a celebration of being different, it's actually a celebration of just being normal.