Victor Archuleta, author of The Power of Energy Healing and Press Here: Chakras for Beginners
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What does LGBTQ+ Pride mean to you?
LGBTQ+ Pride is an opportunity to celebrate our identity and self-expression while at the same time honor those that fought for our freedom to do so. It also is an opportunity for non-LGBTQ+ folks to become familiar with our community and celebrate our diversity together.
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Hope Brasfield, author of Satisfying Stitches
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Who in the Queer community inspires you right now?
Where do I even start! The first person who comes to mind is a dear friend and fellow fiber artist based in Texas, Jessica Gritton (@jessgherkin, JessGritton.com). Jess is an incredible artist who creates beautiful, intricate, “I can’t believe that’s fiber” type pieces documenting trans joy, resistance, and activism. Living in Tennessee, I feel so much solidarity with what Jess is up against in Texas, and her work inspires me deeply.
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Kate Davies, author of Fairy Tale Land, Illuminatomy, and The Incredible Hotel
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What's your favorite queer space?
Gay's the Word, an amazing LGBTQ+ bookshop in London. It's the oldest queer bookshop in the UK, and it's been a real center for the community since 1979. It's so welcoming - visiting feels like seeing family.
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Sam DeMase, author of Power Mood
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What words of celebration do you have for queer youth today?
Surround yourself with people you love and celebrate the magic that is you.
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Rowan Ellis, author of Here and Queer
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What does LGBTQ+ Pride mean to you?
Pride for me is about looking back at our history, as well as celebrating where we are today, wtih an eye to the future. So often we are inundated with the hardships and suffering of queerness, but there are genuinely beautiful and joyful things about being part of this community. The space we occupy alongside and outside of the cis and straight means we have the ability to reject, rebuild, and reimagine the narrow assumptions about what things like family, romance, and sex can be - and that is an amazing thing.
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Graham Laird Gardner, author of Tiny and Wild
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How do you celebrate Pride throughout the year?
Respect myself and continue to do the work to heal childhood wounds when I was bullied for being different; to build on te gift of being different while supporting other queer artists and agroecologists.
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Eric Geron, author of Farty Pants
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What words of celebration do you have for queer youth today?
Know that you are not alone and that your day to shine will come - hang in there. It might seem hard to believe, but the best chapters of your life are waiting for you.
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Dustin Harder, author of Epic Vegan and Epic Vegan: Quick and Easy
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What's your favorite thing about being an author?
I love being an author because it allows me an outlet to create. It also gives me a space to talk freely about my husband just as lovingly as Desi spoke about Lucy or Beyonce talks about Jay-Z. Our love is just as real as straight couples and I'm thrilled to have the pages of a book to share that in. I'm a cookbook author, and David (my husband) is my number one taste tester.
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Lewis Laney, author of 365 Gays of the Year
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What do you hope readers will get from your book?
I hope people enjoy learning from the book. I think it's important for us to know our history so we can learn and grow from things that have come before us, whether they be good or bad. I also hope that readers are inspired by the amazing people featured in the book, and that it prompts them to do something that makes a little change in the world too. Progress, education, and activism are so important in the LGBTQ+ community and can take on many forms. It could simply be correcting someone's use of the wrong language, or it could be super-gluing yourself to Parliament (LOL 😂).
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Alessandra Requena, author of The Boy Who Cried Poop!
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What's your favorite queer space?
Bookstragram. The bookstagram community is shockingly queer and so supportive of one another. It's a life saver for a lot of people who's real world community is much less welcoming.
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