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Sophia Bush Shares Heartfelt Message About Why Pride Month Is Very Important, Her 1st Since Coming Out
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Sophia Bush marked her very first Pride Month considering that coming out as queer with an impactful message.
“You are best. No matter for how long it may take, you’ll discover your individuals,” Bush, 41, composed through Instagram Story on Sunday, June 2. “And they will assist you discover a growing number of yourself. It’s worth it. You’re worth it.”
The One Tree Hill alum likewise reposted a quote from social networks account We the Urban that checked out, “Pride is very important since somebody tonight still thinks they’re much better off dead than being themselves.”
Pride Month started on Saturday, June 1, to commemorate the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City.
Bush, for her part, openly came out as queer in April.
“As I entered into myself, I currently felt it was my home. I believe I’ve constantly understood that my sexuality exists on a spectrum,” the starlet penned in a Glamour essay. “Right now I believe the word that finest specifies it is queer. I can’t state it without smiling, really. Which feels quite terrific.”
She continued: “I sort of hate the idea of needing to come out in 2024. I’m deeply mindful that we are having this discussion in a year when we’re seeing the most aggressive attacks on the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood in contemporary history. There were more than 500 anti-LGBTQIA+ expenses proposed in state legislatures in 2023, so because of that I wish to offer the act of coming out the regard and honor it should have.”
Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Kimball Stroud & & Associates
Bush even more kept in mind that coming out “lastly [feels] like [she] can breathe.”
“I do not believe I can describe how extensive that is. I seem like I was using a weighted vest for who understands the length of time,” Bush included. “I had not understood how heavy it was up until I lastly simply put it down.”
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Bush just recently discovered love with soccer star Ashlyn Harris, bonding in late 2023 over their particular divorces. Bush declared divorce from Grant Hughes in August 2023, 2 months before Harris, 38, submitted to end her marital relationship to Ali Krieger.
Bush and Harris, who shares 2 kids with Krieger, made their red carpet launching at April’s White House Correspondents Dinner. Regardless of their love heating up, they compressed engaged speculation late last month.
