What is it like for you guys, going home for the holidays? More importantly, how many of us here in the LGBT community can go home this Christmas as our true selves? Not everyone else can, that’s for sure. Not when coming out to our family means costing us our home, and certainly not when it means facing persecution and discrimination from our home countries.
This holiday season 2019, Pantene and GLAAD had come together to create a tear-jerking advertisement called “Coming Home Should be BeautifuLGBTQ” in partnership with the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. The commercial sheds light to the issue that the LGBT community faces come Christmas time. Some of us are not welcome at home, while some of us who are invited need to read a survival guide for Christmas such as this one in order to “get themselves through the holiday season without a family fight.”
The Pantene advert starts with a text that says, “137 million Americans will travel home this holiday season. But, 44% of LGBTQ+ people feel they can’t come home as their true selves.” In their YouTube post, Pantene explained that this is because LGBTQ+ people fear that “their identity (including hair, makeup and personal style) won’t be accepted.” They added, “Let’s make the most wonderful time of year wonderful for all. Because no matter when you come home, where you call home, or who you come home to – coming home should be #BeautifuLGBTQ.”
Pantene also took the time to interview five of the members of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles and below are some of their touching stories. ( These videos will definitely make you cry)
Will you be home for the holidays, guys? Who are you going to spend your Christmas with? Are you going to spend it with your family, friends, or lover? Sound off below and happy viewing!
A million times over: I LOVE IT!!!
You are all beautiful people, regardless of whether your are trans, gay, straight, bi, or a CD, etc. I thinks it’s great for those who are able to come out to their families and still be accepted as whom they are. Holidays can be a hard time for anyone, especially those when their families don’t accept them. There is too much judgement in this world, and why can’t others just accept for whom we are. Sexual preference, race, looks, age, nationality, and other differences should make no difference. The holidays are suppose to be a time of love and gathering,… Read more »
You get a thumbs-up, I concur.
My family has never accepted who I am and never will. Fuck them, I am happy where I am.
Why the thumbs down? Because I’m happy regardless of what my homophobic family thinks? I’m gay and I’m happy.
Why is it that we expect or demand that society except and approve of us and the way we live???? Does not society have a right to expert or demand we except them for their beliefs you do realize folks that this is NOT one way street….. Let us be the first to STOP the HATE…..
Why is it that we expect society to accept us as we are but we refuse to respect society for their belief and values???? Acceptance is a two way street…. Our community is full of some of the most hateful bigoted self righteous judgemental individuals on this planet….
Tough (sadly) as it is for some LGTBQ+ plus people when it comes to families and holidays, it’s also true that countless LGTBQ+ individuals are totally accepted and welcomed by their families year round. For me, personally, a manufacturer’s grasping “Coming Home for Christmas” as advertising and a means to sell product is highly biased and troublesome. While promoting their products, they’re promulgating a one-sided not totally truthful perspective of how LGTBQ+ individuals are actually treated. This week,for example, mainstream media widely reported that an individual who burned an LGTBQ+ flag was sentenced to 16 years in prison. That is… Read more »