NOTE: You can see all my collage artwork and other graphic designs on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/seradrakethebookwyrm/ 

This page will be used for tiles I make for LGBTQIAP+ pride. I have decided that for the month of June, I will crank out one Pride Month-themed tile per day, so going by the math, and the fact that Wattpad only lets us put ten images on a given page, there will be two Pride albums, because June has thirty days. (There may be more Pride albums after that, because we don't celebrate our identities and our right to exist and to have basic human rights one month out of the year. Pride is year-round.

June 1: "All That Glitters and Flies Is Rainbow"

June 2: "Craft Project"- because I am definitely a work in progress. (Who isn't? Cis, or trans, we are all works in progress)

June 3: "Homage to Sappho"

A June 3 BONUS TILE

June 4: "Know Your Pans"

June 5: "Pan-dora!" (more like pun-dora)

June 6: "Swans" - demisexual pride

And a bonus drop: "Let us seek cake!" This is an ace pride meme. There's an old joke in the asexual community about what is better than sex. It's cake, of course! 

June 7: Bi pride memes. I made two.

"Bi Bi Birdie"

"It Is Known" (well, it is)

June 8: Gay pride (as in M x M). 

You've heard of Hadrian's Wall, right? It was a better idea than some other walls I can think of. And Hadrian was one of the better emperors Rome had, not that I'm a big fan of monarchy as a system of government.

Hadrian had a husband (briefly). I can't remember which museum has their commemorative statues in it, but let's just say everyone knew about Antinous. He was deified after death and even had a cult.

Homosexuality in ancient Rome was perfectly okay so long as you were the top. There were jokes made about Julius Caesar because it was hinted that he might be a vers, or even a bottom.

Today, Hadrian's relationship with Antinous would be seen as problematic, due to the age gap (Antinous was barely 20) and the power gap (can anyone refuse an emperor?) but from what I've read, Antinous seems to have been okay with the arrangement.

WEEKEND BONUS: THIS POSTER

June 9: Something sapphic

June 10: Intersex pride

I used an image of Shiva/Shakti as the background for the collage because according to legend, Shiva was so impressed by his wife Parvati/Shakti's asceticism that he made her a part of his own person. Most images show the two as one in a binary half-and-half image, although the story I am familiar with has Shakti being held in his chest, near his heart. The vast majority of intersex people are not visibly 50/50 in their external sexual characteristics, so Shiva/Shakti, with Shakti being a very real but often invisible part of Shiva, seemed like a suitable background image.

June 11: Polyamory pride 

Polyamory falls into something of a grey area on the "is this queer or not?" spectrum. For some people, it's a choice and a lifestyle decision, a way to subvert heteronormativity; for other people, it's an orientation.

Arguably, polyamory, or at least polyeros, as a hard-wired orientation may be the norm, and monogamy as a hard-wired orientation a rare variant of demisexuality. Most people do have the ability to feel desire for multiple people simultaneously, and love, them. They just don't act on it.

I am going to say that since polyamory still has something of a bad reputation in the mainstream, and is sometimes used as a way to fly in the face of heteronormativity, it's something that can, and should, be celebrated during Pride Month.

Circumstantially.

Unicorn hunting (male-female couple looking for a bisexual woman to basically use as their own personal sex toy, romantic fantasy fulfillment, relationship-fixer, and house slave) is heteronormative and predatory and is nothing to be celebrated. Neither is dragon hunting (same scenario, but using a bisexual man as the toy).

Any form of polyamory that is used to support heteronormativity does not get to parade with the rest of us fabulous people.

And genderfluid pride:

I missed a day. Sorry. 

June 13: Fabulous rainbows!

June 14: More fabulous rainbows!

June 15 (oops, will need to create my second page tomorrow, this is my last image allowed for this page) - Bi pride. This meme channels the bi pride lettering on a tee shirt I wore when I marched in a pride parade in London in 1999.