June 1st, 2018
Dear Catherine,
Today is June 1st, 2018. I am 19 years one month and 21 days old. This is a special day because it is the first day of Pride Month. Now you might be wondering what Pride Month is. I will tell you why this month is so special. Pride Month is a month to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. That is, the community of gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, queer, transgender, non-binary genders, demi-sexual, aromantic, pan-romantic, and more. There’s a lot more to it than that, but you probably don’t even understand all those words yet. I'm also not pretending to know everything about this because I am still learning about it myself, but I will learn more. The reason I'm telling you about Pride Month is because this is the first year it came around where I was sure I wasn’t straight which is saying, I might be gay or bisexual. This is perfectly okay, of course. At this point, I'm still figuring things out, but I know that I belong to this community.