Sophia Bush marked her first Satisfaction Month since popping out as queer with an impactful message.
“You might be excellent. Regardless of how lengthy it would take, you’ll discover your folks,” Bush, 41, wrote by way of Instagram Story on Sunday, June 2. “And they’ll allow you to discover increasingly of your self. It’s value it. You’re value it.”
The One Tree Hill alum additionally reposted a quote from social media account We the City that learn, “Satisfaction is essential as a result of somebody tonight nonetheless believes they’re higher off lifeless than being themselves.”
Satisfaction Month started on Saturday, June 1, to have fun the LGBTQIA+ group in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York Metropolis.
Bush, for her half, publicly got here out as queer in April.
“As I got here into myself, I already felt it was my house. I believe I’ve at all times identified that my sexuality exists on a spectrum,” the actress penned in a Glamour essay. “Proper now I believe the phrase that greatest defines it’s queer. I can’t say it with out smiling, really. And that feels fairly nice.”
She continued: “I type of hate the notion of getting to return out in 2024. However I’m deeply conscious that we’re having this dialog in a 12 months once we’re seeing probably the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQIA+ group in fashionable historical past. There have been greater than 500 anti-LGBTQIA+ payments proposed in state legislatures in 2023, so for that cause I wish to give the act of popping out the respect and honor it deserves.”
Bush additional famous that popping out “lastly [feels] like [she] can breathe.”
“I don’t suppose I can clarify how profound that’s. I really feel like I used to be sporting a weighted vest for who is aware of how lengthy,” Bush added. “I hadn’t realized how heavy it was till I lastly simply put it down.”
Bush lately discovered love with soccer star Ashlyn Harris, bonding in late 2023 over their respective divorces. Bush filed for divorce from Grant Hughes in August 2023, two months earlier than Harris, 38, filed to finish her marriage to Ali Krieger.
Bush and Harris, who shares two youngsters with Krieger, made their purple carpet debut at April’s White Home Correspondents Dinner. Regardless of their romance heating up, they squashed engaged hypothesis late final month.
“I hear the web is being wild? Y’all 🤣⚰️I’ve no ‘information’ for you,” Bush wrote by way of Instagram Tales in Might, after followers questioned why she hid her left hand in an image with Harris. “However wouldn’t you place your fingers all up in her jacket in case you might?? (To be clear you may’t as a result of boundaries, however I’ll proceed to do it for you as a result of I’m simply beneficiant like that.”