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Some pure eggs. This is a moth radio hour. I'm your host and frequent moth storyteller, Alistair Bain.

It's June, K Pride Month. Most pride celebrations involve a rather fabulous parade that creates visibility, community and support.

In this hour, a mini pride parade of LGBTQI plus stories from around the world.

I'm from the Eastern Shawnee tribe of Oklahoma. Many indigenous nations here on this continent that we call Turtle Island

have a long history of loving and respecting the people amongst us who express unique gender identities.

It's an honor to celebrate Pride with all of my relatives who are LGBTQI plus, two spirit or however you choose to define your unique beautiful amazing self.

All of our families, friends and allies too.

Let's get our pride celebration started with our first story from Meg Farrell told in New York City where WNYC is a media partner of the moth. Here's Meg.

I wrote him a letter. I wrote my data letter because at that point our relationship had been crumbling apart.

And with each year we became a little bit less us and a little bit more him and me. So I wrote him a letter and I told him, I'm gay.

And I'm not telling you this just to tell you this. I'm telling you this because I don't know who you are anymore and you don't know who I am anymore.

And what I really want is a relationship.

We hadn't always been this way but to understand this you got to understand my dad's a bit of a complicated man like most of the best people are.

And he grew up in an outline of a family that never fleshed out until a full story.

And he's a reclusive engineer and when he remarried my stepmom they moved off into 163 acres in the middle of nowhere in North Carolina.

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