The price men pay to avoid looking queer

Happy Pride!

Pride Month is a great time to celebrate the diversity of gender and sexuality among all of us. It’s a chance to celebrate the queer community and affirm the inherent goodness of being queer, especially as queer people continue to face discrimination and hate. As a therapist working in downtown Hamilton treating anxiety and depression with people of a broad range of orientation and identity, I would also offer that Pride is good not just for the queer community: Celebrating Pride is good for everybody, and uniquely good for men.