By Katelyn Fry
June 14, 2017

June is National Pride Month, and while its goal is to celebrate the LGBT community and accept differences, we want to shed a little light on what makes us all the same: the kids in our lives and the love we have for them.

In being a gay aunt, or LesbiAunt as we say at Savvy Auntie, explaining what that means exactly to your nieces and nephews one day is inevitable. As I shared earlier, my niece, Mikayla, and I were able to cross that bridge in one afternoon, and since then, I haven’t been her "gay Aunt Kate" – I’m simply Aunt Kate.

We share the same experiences that all aunts and their nieces and nephews do, and when we’re together, the fact that I’m gay is the farthest thing from our minds. What kids unintentionally offer the adults in their lives is so powerful because it’s universal. The love one has for a child is unconditional and exists outside and above all else.

I remember when my nieces were born, and my whole family loved them the second they were brought into the world. In an occasionally dysfunctional family like ours, this tiny little person effortlessly gave us one thing in common: we love this child. And that is exactly what connects all Aunties, gay or straight, this month and always.

As the saying goes, “love is love.”

Photo: Yastremska