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During this Pride Month, and following the tragic shooting in Orlando, it’s important to take time for some self-love. The #QueerSelfLove hashtag on Twitter allows LGBTQ people to share just what they love about their identity. Dylan Marron started the #QueerSelfLove hashtag and encouraged users to join in on the self-love. In an email to GLAAD, Marron stated, “In the wake of Orlando and in the context of a world that has taught us to hate our queerness, I wanted to create a little corner of the internet where people could scroll through queer folks loving themselves out loud, fully and unapologetically.”

I am a soft-spoken brown queer man who wears his mother’s pearl earrings. And I love my queerness. Let’s start a #queerselflove hashtag

— Dylan Marron (@dylanmarron) June 15, 2016

As the hashtag started spreading, Twitter users self-identified their #QueerSelfLove in response to Marron’s tweet.

I’m a transmasculine, pansexual, polyamerous queer man. And I love my queerness #queerselflove t.co/mFBCc15JJA

— Loki Leigh (@Mx_Loki) June 15, 2016

I’m queer black and agender. I like horror movies and musicals. I love very hard. I sing songs to myself. I dream in b&w. #queerselflove

— T’challa @ ur gurl (@Kamthekiller) June 15, 2016

Accepting my gender identity and my transness has helped me on the road to loving myself. I have #queerselflove

— BURFDAY BEAN (@transmurdock) June 15, 2016

Soon, #QueerSelfLove was full of self-loving, queer people sharing and loving their selfies.

#queerselflove hunny pic.twitter.com/ts12TQyrVI

— Matthew Williams (@highpriestmatt) June 15, 2016

#queerselflove gotta love myself cos im the only one I’ve got pic.twitter.com/Chqatc9iMa

— elizabeth blewitt (@shedoesntblowit) June 15, 2016

#queerselflove I’m a nonbinary trans woman with a rainbow that follows me wherever I go pic.twitter.com/fKyIQPYm9Z

— Gabriel Squailia (@gabrielsquailia) June 15, 2016

I’m a Korean-American (KAD), queer trans woman who loves Star Wars, comics, and weightlifting. #queerselflove pic.twitter.com/imS7JTCrNL

— Allie (@tinyasterisms) June 15, 2016

If you question any dimension of my identity, you question my very existence. I am unapologetic.#queerselflove pic.twitter.com/UeWRlv2lYW

— aiight (@punchbuggiez) June 15, 2016

Thanks for being you, Twitter, and sharing your #QueerSelfLove.

The #queerselflove hashtag makes me so so happy. Keep being amazing. pic.twitter.com/evJ24YzmZo

— Harry Cook (@HarryCook) June 15, 2016