12"x12" framed (without glass)
handwoven shetland wool tapestry
 
This weaving was made by looking at what people have said about Pride over the years and asking a Magic 8 Ball if there was any truth to their words. Mainly as a way to say "who knows?", but isn't part of why we are here to understand the ways in which people have interpreted life and what it means to experience life to its fullest? Using a key tying each outcome to a particular yarn color and orientation, a pattern is made.
 
Quotes included for this weaving (pattern from bottom to top):
1. Of course, attitudes change, but only because brave people like Ellen [DeGeneres] jump into the fire to make them change. And if I hadn’t seen her on TV, I would have thought, ‘I could never be on TV. They don’t let LGBT people on TV.’ And more than that, I would have gone on thinking that I was an alien and that I maybe didn’t even have a right to be here.”
– Kate McKinnon
Concentrate and ask again (red)ask again later (kiwi) my reply is no (silver mist) 
 
2.  “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
– E.E. Cummings concentrate (red), concentrate (red) my sources say no (black)
 
3. “People used to think I was a monster. And for a long time, I believed them. But after a while, you learn to ignore the names that people call you and you just trust who you are.”
– Shrek cannot predict now (poppy)
 
4. People who don’t get what Pride is about are often people who have never asked themselves who they really are. - Me  Yes (topaz)
 
5. “To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act. And I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.”
– Lena Waithe outlook good (melon)
 
6. “How can people change their minds about us if they don’t know who we are?”
– Harvey Milk my sources say no (black)
 
7.  “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”
– Brené Brown it is decidedly so (pink)
 
8. “I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and a woman, but between love and love.”
– Frank Ocean reply hazy chicory ; outlook good melon
 
9. “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.”
– Elliot Page better not tell you now (cobalt)
 
10. “We’re all born naked, and the rest is drag.”
– RuPaul without a doubt emerald
 
11. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker yes topaz
 
12. “When we’re free to love anyone we choose, when this world’s big enough for all different views, when we all can worship from our own kind of pew – then, we shall be free.”
– Garth Brooks don’t count on it (white)
 
13. “If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can’t we just all live?”
– Margaret Cho outlook good (melon)