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Be Proud of Yourself

@notloud-stillproud

I’m Fin || 21 || They/Them || Icon from @pixelenchanter

What the colors of the genderqueer flag represent.

(Image description: three color blocks in the shades of the genderqueer pride flag. The first is lavender and has the words “androgyny and queerness” centered in black text. The second is white and has the words “gender neutrality and genderlessness”. The third is green and has the words “genders unrelated to the binary”. End image description.)

People with lesser known or obscure pronouns are good. Their pronouns are good. They aren't cringey or weird. If your pronouns work for you then that's what matters. If you made up your own pronouns because you couldn't find any existing ones that felt right to you, that's good. Your pronouns are real and they are right. Identify however makes you comfortable.

Just want you to know, if you have a gender that’s not man, not woman, and not genderless, but is some sort of distinct unidentifiable gender on its own: that’s okay, that’s beautiful, your gender exists and is an incredible experience. You do not owe binary people anything, your gender does not have to meet their expectations or understandings of gender. Your gender is excellent however it is.

This was inspired by two things: 

1- I’m a bisexual woman dating a cis straight man. That doesn’t make me straight, and that doesn’t make my relationship a straight one. That doesn’t mean I belong less in the LGBT+ community than a gay person. 

2- The fourth example was not a joke. I’m in a fandom where two genderless entities with a temporary human shape are paired together. I’ve seen artists get hate because they drew them “looking straight”. The characters are still non-binary, still in love, STILL NOT STRAIGHT. Do not allow this toxic rhetoric in your fandom. Protect artists. 

**Note– Forgot I meant to add aro and ace in there, sorry, but this TOTALLY INCLUDES ARO AND ACE PEOPLE.

THERE IS NO HIERARCHY OF WHAT IS MORE ACCEPTABLE IN THE LGBT+ COMMUNITY.