Obio Jones Talks LGBTQ+ Adovacy And Celebrating PRIDE | Blavity - video Dailymotion

Coach and LGBTQ+ advocate Obio Jones sits down with Blavity to dicuss LGBTQ+ advocay and celebrating PRIDE.

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00:00What's up good people? I'm OVO and I'm here with Flavity. They are getting all

00:04in my business so stay tuned and I hope you enjoy it. Now the space and the gap

00:08that I try to fill is liberation essentially. I want people to know that

00:15who they are is okay and enough. That you don't have to qualify to become worthy of

00:21respect, worthy of love, worthy of truth, worthy of appreciation, worthy of

00:25friendship, romantic partners, any of that you know and so for me that space is a

00:29bout when you're in that shame and when you're in that that that pre-period if

00:35you will of like your truth and that shame I want to fill that gap to let you

00:40know that there is liberation on the other side. If not every day every other

00:45day I am learning new things about myself, about the world that I live in,

00:49about other shame that I'm still carrying and unpacking and unlearning

00:53and doing those things to make sure that I am in my best self. I love that every

00:57city has their own version of pride. You know we have Atlanta pride, DC pride, WeHo pride,

01:01you know all these different prides and it may sound like a lot but again like

01:06there's never too much when you're committed to giving freedom to

01:09marginalized people. But I would love to see more stories that center love and

01:14center fun, center joy, center truth, center peace because that's a also part

01:20of the community that we don't tend to see often. You know I'd love to see it

01:24happen in movies and film and TV, playwrights, books. I would love to see

01:30more more mediums to talk about the things and talk about our joy.