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title: Pride & Positivity | IDEA Group
description: Embrace Pride and positivity for the LGBTQ+ community. Read this personal journey of overcoming adversity as a proud transgender.
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# Pride & Positivity
Categories: [Diversity & Inclusion](https://flagshipinc.com/category/diversity-inclusion/), [PRIDE](https://flagshipinc.com/category/pride/)
I wake up each day and celebrate the lives that my LGBTQ+ predecessors before myself tirelessly fought for, that is what pride means to me.
You see the odds were against me. I was raised in an extremely small town in the south and kept in a bubble, if you will, and although that bubble was so thin and easy to pop, I was controlled and brainwashed by my parents. I knew no other way. It wasn’t until I choose to live for me that I was able to make it out.
At the age of 17, my parents kicked me out after coming out as a lesbian, years later and now as a proud transgender man, I look back and am so proud of how I chose to keep going despite every roadblock.
Pride to me is celebrating MY life and the positive impact that I can make for my community and those around me.
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