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OutBoisemag.com | Issue 20 | June 2016
Photo: Paul Budge
If we truly want to represent our community,
shouldn’t we be celebrating everyone? Every aspect?
Even the dirty parts?
There is NO shame in expressing your identity
outwardly and openly. Sure, Boise - and Idaho, tend
to be far more conservative than San Francisco, or
New Orleans, but that doesn’t mean that you don’t
have the right to express who you are.
Apparently, no.
This is EXACTLY why you see people with “masc
only” or “no fats, no fems” on their GRINDR profile.
We’ve thrown ourselves into a world where no one
ever fits in any more. And we tear each other apart
for it.
You don’t need to be “just like everyone else.” You
shouldn’t have to be thrown aside because you don’t
meet certain criteria that the world deems “appropriate.”
This, to me, is unacceptable. And, going forward,
OutBoise will not tone anything down for our readers. We’re meant to express who we are. We should
celebrate as loudly and as proudly as possible. And
we shouldn’t care how inappropriate something
thinks it is.
When we become this society that judges our own
more than the rest of the world does? Didn’t we
already have to move past this to come together to
make things happen?
I encourage you all, during Pride, to show this spirit
by showing the true spirit of gay pride. Fly your freak
flag out their as high as you can. Be you. Not what
society says you have to be.