Cleveland Pride

Cleveland Pride’s new web series, “The Umbrella,” looks to explore the ‘queer experience’ across all walks of life in the Cleveland community. Each week, a new story will be featured on our website. The best part? It’s all user generated. These stories are your stories. Send stories to ExecutiveBoard@clevelandpride.org

Here are just some ideas for stories we are looking for. The experience of:

* Being in a committed relationship in Ohio, which does not recognize any kind of civil unions or marriage for members of the queer community
* Being queer & black & living on the down low
* Being out in high school
* Being the queer son/daughter with queer parents
* Being the queer son/daughter with conservative or religious parents
* Being the straight child of queer parents/parent
* Being a queer parent
* Struggling to adopt in Ohio
* Struggling to finding adequate healthcare in Ohio
* Aging and being queer
* Being young & in a committed relationship
* Being transgender in Ohio
* Transitioning from the body you were born with to the body you are supposed to have
* Coming out as transgender
* Being transgender in high school
* Being bisexual in an often un-supportive community
* Being queer & from a culture which traditionally deems sexually deviant behavior as tabboo
* Being a part of the fetish community in Ohio
* Being queer in America/Ohio from a foreigner’s point of view
* Coming out after being in a heterosexual marriage
* Being queer today as contrasted with being queer in Ohio 50+ years ago
* Reconciling one’s religion with one’s queer identity
* Being the heterosexual parent of a queer child
* Being asexual & how one fits with the queer community
* Being intersexual & fitting in with the queer community
* Being a straight ally & advocate for queer rights

Disclaimer
The stories and opinions published in the Umbrella do not necessarily represent those of Cleveland Pride, Inc. The stories are published with little discretion so as to maintain the integrity of “user-generated” content of the Umbrella.