Phrases to reflect pronounced by Roy Galán

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“Pride is a family, a table, a place of resistance.”

Many people say that what is LGTBIQA+ pride for?

They say it from a place where no one has questioned who they are.

In which they have not felt afraid of being.

They say it from a place where their identities and orientations are approved, celebrated, represented.

Where they have always been possible.

If pride is needed, it is to claim the existence of diversity.

The possibility of being

And it may seem silly when you exist and that’s it.

Yes, but for many people to exist is a danger.

It is not because the world is like that but because people are like that.

Because people make life difficult for others.

To keep us safe.

Because we need someone other than us to have power.

When in reality we are all the same.

We are made of the same particles as a meteorite.

Or a sterlic.

Human beings are responsible for the margin of existence that we leave to others.

Not because others have no right to exist.

They got it.

But because all existences are worthy.

When you with your words, your beliefs or ideas, with your actions.

You make someone feel bad who only pretends to exist.

What you’re doing is making his life more complicated.

Less livable.

And already life is fucked by itself.

We already have so much shit.

That almost the only thing we can really do.

Pretty much the only thing we have agency on.

It is in the treatment that we provide to the other.

And not out of pity or condescension.

There is also nothing to tolerate.

What it is about is not believing that yours is the only thing.

The normal.

Or what deserves something.

What it is about is that we have a unique opportunity in the world.

And come on, you don’t have to be a bad person to waste your time making others who are not you disgusted.

They want to kill

Pride is a family, a board, a place of resistance.

It is the affection that people need to continue loving, desiring and being.

It’s the goodnight kiss on the forehead that says I love you for who you are.

I want you free.

And I will always love you.