SeveredData Official Site - Celebrating Pride!

Celebrating Pride!

By: Emma Onstott

Created June 5, 2025

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"I have a mission. That is to make the world a better place during my time here. Part of that involves making sure everyone, regardless of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or religion, is included no matter what."

— Emma Onstott, owner of SeveredData

Here at SeveredData, I strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and included, regardless of their individual identity. I support all types of people, including people of color and the LGBTQIA2S+ community. This is coming from me, a transgender woman, who believes in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for everyone. I also support black and LGBTQIA2S+ businesses, organizations, and non-profits, as they help bring joy to people like me and also protect us from hateful discrimination. Speaking of which...

Wanna know something? Well, guess what? All discrimination is banned and won't be tolerated on my platform. Support that orange freak? Go somewhere else. I don't believe in cults like MAGA. Wanna spread hate and misinformation about minorities? You shouldn't be doing that anyway, so get outta here! I do try to keep my community as hate-free as possible, but with the amount of discrimination people like me face just for being themselves, and the dumb, orange fascist running our country right now, it's becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the inclusive environment I strive to have. That's why we need to work together and prove we are humans just like the rest of us!

This Pride Month, in June, SeveredData not only celebrates and embraces people of all backgrounds but also reflects on the important history that helped make it happen. Remember the Stonewall Riots of 1969? It was when police stormed the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar that was a safe haven for gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals, and it led to six days of riots, which became a pivoting point in LGBTQIA2S+ history. Today, while you may feel like you're alone at times, just know that isn't true, as you have tons of supportive people and organizations to turn to, like me. We still have a long fight ahead of us, but luckily, we're not alone. Together, we will fight for our rights and be who we truly are!

Amazing quotes of encouragement:

“We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay.” — Laverne Cox
“Hope will never be silent.” — Harvey Milk
"Love is never wrong." — Melissa Etheridge
"We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise." — Elliot Page
“If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning.” — Harvey Milk
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein
“When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox
“It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else’s sexuality. It’s like telling someone else how to clean their house.” — River Phoenix
“This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.” — Elliot Page
“It’s time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want.” — Ellen DeGeneres
“Don’t be afraid. Don’t be ashamed. Don’t ever apologize for your sexuality. Just be you.” — Sonya Deville
“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now OK to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” — Senator Tammy Baldwin
“I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence and community.” — Janet Mock
“No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker
“You are the ultimate power and you have never been so visible in the world! And that beautiful light and that rainbow is shining all around you. Stand in it. Bask in it. Allow yourself to glow in it as we grow. Take that spotlight, it belongs to you.” — Lady Gaga

This one relates to me:

“I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive.” — Elliot Page