JAMIE EVANS

What LGBTQ+ History Month Means To Me

LGBTQ+ History Month is a reminder. It’s a celebration of all our achievements, despite adversity.

It’s a chance to remember that throughout the world we all don’t share the same freedoms.

It’s an opportunity to appreciate those who came before us and paved the road to acceptance with words and actions.

And finally, humbly, it’s a moment to show respect to the countless souls we lost along the way.  

By celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month, and by living as our authentic selves, we also light the way for those that will come after us.

People may think that the work is done, that we enjoy the same rights and freedoms as everyone else.

But we know this is fiction when people are arrested, abused, or worse, worldwide for the simple crime of being who they are. 

We proudly make it known who we are every February as a reminder of this, and to show that we aren’t going anywhere.

And even when the work is done, whenever that may be, there will always be someone who needs to know that who they are is okay.

There will always be someone in desperate need of a light to guide them down their path.