Pride month is all about celebrating and accepting one another, and also supporting the brave members of the LGBTQ+ community, who have taken the step of coming out and sharing who they are with the world.
ButJanelle Monáe, whocame out as pansexual in 2018, doesn’t limit the fun to just June. “Pride month is every month for me,” says the star, 33, and new face of Belvedere Vodka’s new Beautiful Future campaign.
At the launch of the new bottle she helped design for the brand, Monáe, shared just how she celebrated this month, attending her first Pride festival in New Orleans.
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Monáe says that while she has her mom’s full support, “Growing up, though, I could not have imagined…there are also so many kids who don’t have that, young and old, who don’t have that community.”
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She continues, “Being able to see that community at pride and in New Orleans, to see them celebrating, dancing, laughing, just not having a care in the world for those two hours I was there was just a sight to see,” she says. “I encourage everyone, even if you’re not a part of the LGBTQIA+ community to go and experience that joy.”
“One of the things I had to do on my last album and before that was peel back my own layers so that I can walk deeper and deeper into my truth.” she says.
Just over a year after she opened up, the singer is inspiring others to do the same.
“There’s never a wrong time to promote positivity in the future. I think especially with the world we’re living in, specifically in America, we have to have conversation, important conversations” says the singer.
She adds, “When you look at the bottle you see a different design that literally has a peeling of the bottle and peeling back our layers to get to our uniqueness and walking in our purpose. It’s not about being in a system that wasn’t built for us, but really creating a new one.”
source: people.com
