June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate the diversity, resilience, and authenticity of LGBTQIA+ communities. It's also an opportunity to explore what connection, pleasure, and queer intimacy mean outside of traditional expectations. The word “queer,” once used as a derogatory term, has been reclaimed and reappropriated as a positive identity label for people who are LGBTQIA+. For some people, queer feels more expansive than labels such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or pansexual