Youth Pride 2015!!! An Interview

Hey Y'all, 

Yesterday was youth pride!

First we marched through Downtown, a bunch of people were watching and recording us on their phones. 

Then we got back to the festival with the community resources and performances.

 It was a little boring because the music wasn't that great but it got better at the end by the prom, we were all dancing and having a good time. 

Overall, it was a good day. 

I could really feel the pride and happiness in everyone, 

In themselves, in each other, in their identities. 

It was a beautiful experience. 

So I asked my partner Cam, 

1.What is youth pride?

2.What makes you proud to be a part of this community?

3. What can we do to improve the community?

4. What are you looking forward to for the future of the community?

And they said:

1. "Its like Pride, its a chance to stand with the LGBTQ community, specifically the youth. 

Youth Pride comes in three segments: Its the march around the Boston Common, its the um, festival and concert, and then it's the bomb ass party at the end of the night".

2. "They are accepting to a part of me that isn't accepted in most places. Being in a space with so many queer youth is very different form say a typical situation in which I am one of the only queer youth in the room. I have more room to be myself, to express the part of my identity that can't come out in other situations like school or work".

3. "Recognize that even though people are part of the LGBTQ community, they can still be ignorant. We need to educate people about the intersectionalities of the people around them. We need to support the LGBTQ youth of color, I'm tired of all these events being over run by white kids from the suburbs. We need to find out what the LGBTQ youth of color need and help them get it".

4. "More education. Less annoying ignorant people. A focus more on Trans rights. To be less of a spectacle and more of a celebration. Oh yeah, I'm also looking forward to actually having a good DJ next year. No wait, don't put that in".

Thanks Bey for letting me interview you :)

Love you!