Are You Sure You're An LGBTQ+ Ally?

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Jun 20, 2025 · 5m

We all have stories we tell ourselves about the kind of people we are, about our values, about our presence here, about our reason for being.

But those narratives are often largely subjective: a combination of unrealized aspirations, wishful thinking, and subtle main character energy narcissism that needs to make ourselves the heroes.

Eventually, though, who we are is revealed, not in who we imagine ourselves to be, but in who our actions and inactions declare we are.

We’re well into PRIDE month, which, as much as it is a time for members of the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate themselves, is…