Cyndi Lauper's True Colors is the perfect song for Pride, and I think we all need to think about that today. You see, yesterday a story broke out of England where these two lesbians, girlfriends, were savagely attacked and beaten by four young guys on a public bus, and guess why? Melania Geymonat posted a picture of herself and her girlfriend Chris after the attack, and it's the kind of photo that makes what happened all the more real. Sometimes true colors are not so pretty, but then again...
The gay community has come so far since I was younger, but as we can see from this story, it's far from perfect today. Melania and Chris were being themselves on that fateful night in May, and there's no reason for them not to have been. Yet hopefully their story will embolden even more LGBT people to show their true colors in defiance, to be out and to be proud. It's how we got here and it is how we will someday get to where we need to be. Here's Cyndi Lauper...
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