Cartoon by: Yanai De Leon
Published by: Shaina Pajarillo
Date Published: June 17, 2025
Time Published: 6:00 PM
Category: Poetry
Subject: LGBTQ+ Pride and Resilience
You—
the one who walked through storms wearing color like armor,
who learned to love your name before the world did.
They told you to shrink,
to blend,
to bend like a shadow.
But you—you chose light.
This is for the way your heart blooms.
Even when the mirror forgets how to reflect you,
for the names you've whispered into safe spaces,
for the flags in your eyes before they flew in the streets.
You carry history—
the riots, the kisses in hiding,
the ache of being seen too much and not enough.
And still,
You laugh like a protest,
You love like a revolution,
You live.
Because pride isn’t just the rainbow—
It’s the storm before it,
the hands that held yours in silence,
the voice you found and refused to let go of.
So here’s to you.
Loud or quiet, out or not,
whole, healing, hurting, rising—
You are the reason the rainbow still dares to stretch across the storm.
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