Don't let body shame keep you from celebrating Pride

Mashable is celebrating Pride Month by exploring the modern LGBTQ world, from the people who make up the community to the spaces where they congregate, both online and off. Ryan Sheldon has been on the cover of a magazine, on a billboard in Times Square, even interviewed on national television. But each June, the brawn model and motivational speaker is reminded of one place he hasn’t been: an LGBTQ Pride parade.  “It’s not that I don’t want to celebrate my identity and my community,” Sheldon explains. “Of course I do. I just don’t feel comfortable there.”  Sheldon, who is an ambassador for the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA), is one of the many queer people impacted by eating and body image disorders. The 33-year-old body acceptance advocate from Los Angeles was diagnosed with binge-eating and body dysmorphic disorder in 2015, before coming out as gay two years later.  Read more...More about Pride, Body Image, Culture, and Activism