Dear Editor:
I’m very late to the debate on rainbow sidewalks and Pride flags. But, in all the letters I saw published either for or against, no one mentioned how ubiquitous it is to be LGBTQ+.
We are everywhere. In every culture, in every religion, of every skin colour, of every ability, in every time from the beginning of time right to the end.
We aren’t made because people “got soft” or we saw some rainbows. We were created from the same stardust that everyone else was.
We celebrate Pride not at all for straight people. It’s for us and those that might not yet know they are one of us. It’s possible that people don’t know exactly because we are of every culture, religion, race, age and ability and we are hard to spot.
Move the conversation away from equality and more to visibility.
Because the more visible we are (even if we make people very uncomfortable), the more young LGBTQ+ lives are saved and the more happy and healthy adults we get to have in our community, even if they are really, really fabulous adults.
Tiffany Burtch,
Fergus