This Pleasure Month, Billboard requested artists to jot down a sequence of affection letters to their LGBTQ followers, highlighting what the group means to them, as individuals and as artists. Beneath, Chappell Roan recollects discovering herself within the queer group and with the ability to lastly inform herself “Thank God I’m homosexual.”

To the group that saved me:

A love letter doesn’t appear close to sufficient for you. Sitting down racking my mind, making an attempt to shove love into a number of paragraphs doesn’t do you justice. The appreciation doesn’t match into my vocabulary. One of the best I can do is give you my venture, my songs, my tears, & my everlasting love for queerness.

Rising up Christian, considering being homosexual was a selection, solid a shell over my coronary heart that might solely be damaged by your pleasure and style in direction of my scared and confused 18 12 months outdated self who thought perhaps liking women wasn’t only a section anymore. Leaving my spiritual group to begin a brand new life in Los Angeles was rewarded by the queer group taking me beneath your wing and nursing me to a happiness I’ve by no means felt earlier than.

“Thank God I’m homosexual” is a sentence I believed I’d by no means say, nevertheless it’s true. Thank God I really like girls. Thank God you taught me to simply accept myself, impressed me to decorate loud, and and dance the way in which I’ve dreamt of since I used to be 9. Thank God you help me and I’ve the privilege to look at you from the stage radiating freedom and beaming with smiles. Thank God for drag performers. Thank God for strap-ons. Thank God for you.

With everlasting love,
Chappell Roan