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What Are You Proud Of? Pride season is upon us once again. It’s a time to


celebrate and a time to commemorate, though sometimes I think we tend to focus too little on the commemoration part... We’re celebrating a milestone here atThe Rage Monthly this June. We’ve landed solidly in our 11th year and are proud and grateful to be able to continue the great honor of bringing you tales of the LGBTQ world...It truly is an honor to do so. There are so many things to be proud of and during


this oppressive moment filled with an endless news cycle of horrors, it’s important to remember we have still accomplished much. I was reminded of this during an interview with 11-year-old C.J. Duron, Orange County Pride’s grand marshal for 2018. He is a “Gender Fluid” kid who is living his truth


with the support and love of his wonderful family. He has faced a lot of cruelty in his young life, but he is bolstered by the unconditional love of his mother and father, Matt and Lori. As a way to document and share their day-to-day successes and challenges, his mother created a blog and now a book called Raising My Rainbow: Adventures In Raising A Fabulous, Gender Creative Son. I dare you to spend some time reading the blog without tearing up as you witness the intense love of his parents. The couple are both so deeply committed to supporting their little rainbow and his creativity in any way in every way. It is a beautiful thing and made me think back to my “fluid” days and how different the world was back then. It’s so heartening to know there’s a place for kids like C.J. and that we are broadening our ideas about what makes a boy or a girl. Whether you’re a boy who likes pink, a girl who likes trucks, or a boy who likes boys or a girl who likes girls, it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that you enjoy being who you


are regardless of what anybody thinks. Albert Einstein, who was way smarter than me once


said, “The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.” I hadn’t heard the quote before, but you can bet I’m going to hang it on my kitchen wall as a reminder to not follow the safest route. Thanks C.J. for reminding me of that truth. The film Alex Strangelove was another reminder


of how much has changed and yet how challenging it still is to go through the coming out process. What has changed however, is that the access the main character has for information and support is vastly different, reflected in the kids he’s surrounded by in his progressive high school. It’s a place many of us couldn’t have imagined filled with gay and bisexual kids, trans kids and gender queer kids who are relatively well supported and safe. The world they live in is filled with access points for


knowing that you’re part of a larger LGBTQ network, with the internet, television and a plethora of other resources. Director Craig Johnson talked about the how broad it was in our discussion, “We have things like Netflix, which is such a powerful megaphone that mainlines this kind of content directly into the veins of teenagers. That’s why it was such a perfect place for Alex Strangelove. On Friday, June 8, we’ll be blasted out into hundreds of millions of homes worldwide. You can be a closeted kid in India, Egypt, Russia or Salt Lake City, and you can fire up this movie on your laptop and hopefully relate to it.” I love that. Remember to be loud and be proud


my friends. Joel Martens, Editor in Chief


“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.” - Tennessee Williams


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