Kim Petras: What Pride Means To Me

It starts with pop music. That's how I'd escape as a teenager when I'd get treated roughly at school and it seemed like my life sucked. On would go the headphones, up would go the volume. For a long time it was only my amazing, always supportive parents who saw me for the girl that I knew I was--for everyone else I was a boy.

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But music was escape--and my ally. No matter what the other kids said or thought, as long as I had a pair of headphones I was able to survive it all. Now I'm the one writing hit records, and not to brag, but I'm starting to really kill it, babes.

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Music has always been my safe place, and so has the LGBTQ community. My friends and live it up at Pride every year. Some of my best memories--including some of my first performances, wildest parties, and most dramatic dramas--are associated with Pride parades. So, whatever happens this Pride season, I just want remind you to celebrate your fabulous, non-conforming self... and let me deliver this year's soundtrack to it all!

Your happiness in that moment, you living for the music and the vibe and letting your cares go: that's what Pride means to me.

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