{"id":15624,"date":"2021-06-09T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=15624"},"modified":"2021-06-09T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T21:04:38","slug":"is-it-bad-to-not-support-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/06\/09\/is-it-bad-to-not-support-pride-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it bad to not support pride month?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I personally have some friends who are LGBTQ, and I don&#8217;t want to upset them by saying I don&#8217;t support them, but I don&#8217;t really love pride month. Does that make me a bad person?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I think you and the LGBTQ+ folks you know might have a different definition of &#8220;friend,&#8221; if your definition doesn&#8217;t include supporting the month that celebrates an important component of their identities. Many LGBTQ+ folks are facing familial pressure, pressure from institutions and friends, and legal battles against living as their authentic selves. Pride month is a bulwark against this erosion of their right to live openly as LGBTQ+. You might not &#8220;love&#8221; pride month yourself, but please think about how important it might be to people you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I personally have some friends who are LGBTQ, and I don&#8217;t want to upset them by saying I don&#8217;t support them, but I don&#8217;t really love pride month. Does that make me a bad person? I think you and the LGBTQ+ folks you know might have a different definition of &#8220;friend,&#8221; if your definition doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/06\/09\/is-it-bad-to-not-support-pride-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is it bad to not support pride month?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15627,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions\/15627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}