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Passionate Pieces to Celebrate Pride<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Amanda Grace<\/p>\n

June 13th,\u00a02021<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Happy Pride! Standing strong in who you are can be\u00a0a journey, but\u00a0through the ups and downs, these ten characters tell their truth without apologies of any kind.<\/p>\n

From Coming Out<\/em> by Cullen Douglas<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Female, Serio-Comic, High School 14-18, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michelle is gay. Proud. But scared to come out to her parents about it. This is her first support group meeting, but she\u2019s talking a bit too much for anyone to offer any support at all.<\/p>\n

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From About a Goth<\/em> by Tom Wells<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, High School 14-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nick is a very focused goth with a love of Existentialism, but his feelings for Greg\u2014which seem to be reciprocated\u2014are getting in the way of him living his gloomy life.<\/p>\n

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From Women of Choice<\/em> by David Rush<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, Young Adults 20s, Adults 30-40s, Mature 50s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having saved almost enough money for her gender reassignment surgery, Marcia is suddenly put under pressure when her male partner starts pushing her to have sex. She feels stuck between getting a dangerous back-alley surgery or telling her boyfriend, who she fears may react poorly, that she is trans. Here, she seeks advice from other transgender members of a community message board.<\/p>\n

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From Dick for a Doorstop<\/em> by Samantha Charlip<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Young ADutls 20s, Adults 30-40s, Mature 50s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Juju has been holding up his and Charlie\u2019s entire relationship, even while dealing with his own illness and ghosts from his past. He\u2019sso had enough of pretending to be someone he\u2019s not for a man who can\u2019t love him as he is.<\/p>\n

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From a sex thing <\/em>by Kati Frazier<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, Adults 30-40s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stevie and Alice met on the subway, continued to a bar, and ended the night with raucous sex in the bathroom. Together in person, they\u2019re hot and heavy, but once Alice has gone home, she doesn\u2019t always answer Stevie\u2019s calls\u2026<\/p>\n

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From Frozen Stars<\/em> by David Matthew-Barnes<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, High School 14-18, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Young artist Javier dreams of becoming a famous sculptor… and, he\u2019s falling in love. Here, he recounts the first time he told someone he was gay to the object of his affections.<\/p>\n

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From Faggots Are Dangerous<\/em> by Alex Kump<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Nonbinary, Dramatic, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A group of genderqueer anarchists have murdered Mike Huckabee, whose severed head they\u2019ve brought with them to break into the remote lake house of a straight couple. Shadow, the leader of the group, is willing to destroy anyone who politicizes their life and body.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>From Raggedy And<\/em> by David Valdes Greenwood<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, Adults 30-40s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ondi is asked to be the first transgender inaugural poet for the new female president\u2014but that\u2019s not a title she wants to carry. She just wants to be a poet\u2014she\u2019ll settle for \u201clesbian poet\u201d\u2014known for her work. After all, she<\/em> knows who she is.<\/p>\n

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From Living on the Edge<\/em> by Michael Wanzie<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Adults 30-40s, Mature 50s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The issues are very clear to Frank, as are their perpetrators. All the LGBTQ+ community asks is equal rights from the government as heterosexual couples\u2014including to marriage.<\/p>\n

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BRUCE: A MONOLOGUE FOR A GAY SENIOR 70+ <\/em><\/strong>by Asher Wyndham<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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(Male, Comedic, Mature 50s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce is over the objections of the young gay men at the bar. After all, he and his elderly friends are the reason these boys find it so easy to be proud.<\/p>\n

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