Pride can be many things. It can be a chosen configuration or a sacred celebration. Often, it’s loud and screaming. But it doesn’t have to be.

Enter these six individuals, with different labels and pronouns, who move through life with fluidity. They remind us that sometimes the most intimate act is meeting yourself at your rawest and choosing to stay. Because Pride isn’t always defiance. Sometimes it’s a quiet knowing: letting people meet you exactly where you are, as you are. It’s a state of not having to aspire to be anything but yourself; you have arrived.