June is the most romantic month

Geeknifer
5 min readJun 19, 2024

No matter the shape, love is love… ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜. This month is to give visibility to a community that has been discriminated against for centuries.

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What if we thought that the most romantic month was not February but June? I have had this idea for a long time because I see more genuine expressions of love this month.

Why? Because June is the month dedicated to the pride and visibility of the LGBTIQ+ community. Especially in Mexico City, it is thought that the struggle doesn’t exist anymore and the collective is accepted. Nothing is further from reality. I really can’t imagine discrimination against people based on their sexual preference and gender identity.

On today’s menu, we have a book 📕, a couple of commercials 🎞️, a video 📹, a series 🎥, a short story 🖋️ and some thoughts 💭.

A book 📕

Real Men — Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

I finished this book crying. It is not typical for this to happen to me; it is easier to cry with a movie. But this volume by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is tough.

Real Men is a novel about homophobia in Senegal. A decadent thing that reminds us that tolerance is far from the norm. And I think the way to approach it is…

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Geeknifer
Geeknifer

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Text worker | UX Writer | Culture & tech enthusiast | Bad-ideas lover

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