#HeterNOsexualPrideDay: Why We Don't Need a Straight Pride Day
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#HeterNOsexualPrideDay: Why We Don't Need a Straight Pride Day

LGBT+ Pride is about standing together and remembering history that is typically erased.

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#HeterNOsexualPrideDay: Why We Don't Need a Straight Pride Day
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I understand being proud of your sexuality. It's a good thing to be proud of who you are and every aspect of yourself. Self-love is important, especially in a world that tries to shoot everyone down for having confidence in themselves.

However, Pride for the LGBT+ community is meant to celebrate the history that is so often erased from the books. Heterosexual people are learned about everyday in classrooms around the world. Their sexuality isn't erased in the history books

Heterosexuality isn't erased in movies. People aren't ignored or treated as something that can be cured when they're heterosexual. They aren't killed because they're straight. Their sexuality isn't dismissed as a phase. Heterosexuality isn't illegal in any country.

Being heterosexual means that people won't come up with ways to fire you to get around equal opportunity laws because of your. No one is tole they're too young to know that they're heterosexual. Heterosexuality is considered the norm.

And while being comfortable and proud that you're heterosexual isn't bad, there's no need for a pride day when heterosexuality is celebrated daily in the media and around the world. There's no threat to heterosexual people existing merely because of their sexuality, though there might be because of other parts of their identity.

LGBT+ Pride events and days are to celebrate those that have survived the persecution that so many people experience because of their sexuality. It's an event to remember that there are people who can support others.

It's meant to show that people can stand together in the face of persecution, especially after events like the recent shooting in Orlando at the gay night club.

Moments like those are why the LGBT+ community need pride. It's pride for surviving persecution, for standing tall with others that face similar judgement because of something they can't control.

It's the same reason we have Black History Month, International Women's Day and many other days and months to celebrate people that are traditionally discriminated against because of something they can't control.

Straight, white, cisgender men tend to get more coverage than any other group, so we have to take the time to remember their are others groups of people that have been persecuted throughout history but also who have contributed greatly to development of the world.

Pride is to raise those people up so they can be in public view for once when everyone tries so often to avoid talking about them. It's why we don't need a Heterosexual Pride Day. Instead, let's continue to raise those that traditionally face discrimination, violence, and erasure by society.

Be proud of who you are, but remember that sometimes we need to raise people out of the shadows too.

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