{"id":252,"date":"2018-06-23T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/?post_type=our-story&p=252"},"modified":"2023-05-31T01:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T01:41:00","slug":"pride-2018","status":"publish","type":"our-story","link":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/fr\/our-story\/pride-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Le festival Pride \u00e9tait de retour pour une autre ann\u00e9e et j\u2019avais fait des plans avec mes amis pour participer \u00e0 diff\u00e9rents \u00e9v\u00e9nements.<\/p>\n

Comme c\u2019\u00e9tait la tradition, je voulais organiser mon party annuel de Pride, le samedi, ce que j\u2019appelais le #SPride.<\/p>\n

Je passais beaucoup de temps avec Ian et il s\u2019\u00e9tait accoutum\u00e9 \u00e0 fr\u00e9quenter mon groupe d\u2019amis.<\/p>\n

Je me disais que c\u2019\u00e9tait un bon moment d\u2019inviter officiellement Ian au #SPride. L\u2019esprit du week-end de Pride avait toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019inclure le plus de monde possible. Inviter Ian semblait naturel.<\/p>\n

Je n\u2019\u00e9tais pas vraiment s\u00fbr qu\u2019Ian veuille m\u00eame venir \u00e0 mon party. Il faisait toujours des plans avec ses amis et participait \u00e0 une multitude d\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nements. Mais il m\u2019a dit qu\u2019il s\u2019arr\u00eaterait en passant.<\/p>\n

Ian s\u2019est m\u00eal\u00e9 tout naturellement avec mes invit\u00e9s.Quand l\u2019heure est venue de sortir dans les rues du Village, il s\u2019est joint \u00e0 nous avec plaisir. Il a laiss\u00e9 tomber le reste de ses plans pour passer la soir\u00e9e avec moi.<\/p>\n

Chaque ann\u00e9e, la soir\u00e9e se terminait chez Buddies, un bar dansant dans les locaux d\u2019un th\u00e9\u00e2tre du quartier \u00e0 quelques pas de la rue Church.<\/p>\n

On s\u2019est avanc\u00e9 vers la piste de danse et quelque chose a chang\u00e9. C\u2019\u00e9tait peut-\u00eatre toutes ces heures qu\u2019on avait pass\u00e9es ensemble. Peut-\u00eatre que c\u2019\u00e9tait aussi l\u2019arriv\u00e9e de Rita. Ou encore l\u2019atmosph\u00e8re de libert\u00e9 au festival Pride. En tout cas, je me suis permis d\u2019embrasser Ian. Un long baiser. Et plusieurs autres, l\u00e0, sur la piste de danse, devant mon cercle d\u2019amis au grand complet.<\/p>\n

Oui! \u00c7a a \u00e9t\u00e9 notre coming out devant nos amis, la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation qu\u2019on \u00e9tait plus que des amis. Et c\u2019\u00e9tait aussi une d\u00e9couverte pour nous-m\u00eames. Ce moment-l\u00e0 a transform\u00e9 ce que nous \u00e9tions l\u2019un pour l\u2019autre.<\/p>\n

Nous en avons discut\u00e9, deux ou trois jours plus tard, et c\u2019\u00e9tait bien vrai : on sortait officiellement ensemble.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \t <\/div>\n\t \n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pride was back for another year, and I had made plans with my friends for all the different events we\u2019d try to attend. As was tradition, I was planning on hosting my annual Pride party on the Saturday, the one I had nicknamed #SPride. I had been spending a lot of time with Ian and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":352,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","ptb_metabox":{"ptb_our_story_written_by":"St\u00e9phane","ptb_our_story_cover_image":["353","https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9_Pride_C.jpg"]},"ptb_taxonomy":[],"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9_Pride_BW.jpg","title":"9_Pride_BW","caption":""},"builder_content":"

Pride was back for another year, and I had made plans with my friends for all the different events we\u2019d try to attend.<\/p>

As was tradition, I was planning on hosting my annual Pride party on the Saturday, the one I had nicknamed #SPride.<\/p>

I had been spending a lot of time with Ian and he was getting accustomed to spending time with my group of friends.<\/p>

I thought this could be a good year for Ian to get an official invite to #SPride. The spirit of Pride weekend was always \u201cthe more the merrier\u201d, so this was a natural fit.<\/p>

I wasn\u2019t even sure if Ian would want to come to this party. He always had plans with his friends and would have multiple events to attend. But he told me he\u2019d swing by.<\/p>

Ian mingled effortlessly with the other party guests. When it came time to bring the party out to the streets and into the Village, he gladly came along. Giving up the rest of his night to spend time with me.<\/p>

Every year at this party, we would end the night at Buddies, a dance party at a local theatre, just off Church Street.<\/p>

We got to the dance floor and something had changed. Maybe it was all the time we had spent together. Maybe it was the introduction of Rita. Maybe it was the free atmosphere of Pride. But I just went in and gave Ian a kiss. A big long kiss. And then more, right there on the dancefloor. In full view of my entire friend circle.<\/p>

Yes, this was our coming out to our friends that we were more than friends. But this was also our coming out to ourselves that we were more than just friends.\u00a0\u00a0This moment completely changed the status of who we were together.<\/p>

A couple days later we sat down and talked about it, and yes, we were officially now dating.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-story\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our-story"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaneian.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}