June is Pride month, so the state of the LGBTQ community has been on my mind more than usual. This comic was inspired by a study I read about on PinkNews, which concluded that large percentages of lesbian, bisexual and queer women do not feel comfortable at Pride events. As a bisexual woman, I certainly could empathized with these findings.

At the Pride parade last weekend, I felt a certain sense of progress alongside the usual nagging feelings of not being ‘queer enough’. Prior to the parade, there was an energising speech from a member of Bi+ Ireland, and it’s amazing that such an organisation even exists in this country to fight for representation for everyone under the bi+ umbrella. But there was still a lack of representation for other groups, asexuals in particular. And despite being in a definitively queer relationship, the fact that myself and my partner could be read as hetero made it seem like we didn’t fully belong.

All of that to say, I made a comic about feeling not particularly welcomed to Pride or perhaps broader LGBTQ+ events!