Sophia Bush is celebrating her first Pride Month with a powerful message.
On Sunday, the “One Tree Hill” actor kicked off the month celebrating LGBTQ Pride with a post to her Instagram story.
“You are perfect. No matter how long it might take, you’ll find your people,” her post reads. “They will help you find more and more of yourself. It’s worth it. You’re worth it.”
Bush shared her message alongside a post from We the Urban, which reads: “Pride is important because someone tonight still believes they’re better off dead than being themselves.”
The Black-owned brand promotes inclusivity and marginalized voices.
In April, Bush came out as queer in an essay she wrote for Glamour magazine.
“I sort of hate the notion of having to come out in 2024,” she wrote at the time. “But I’m deeply aware that we are having this conversation in a year when we’re seeing the most aggressive attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community in modern history.”
The 41-year-old actor went on to share her feeling of “safety, respect and love” in the queer community before adding that she felt as if she’d always been aware that her “sexuality exists on a spectrum.”
“Right now, I think the word that best defines it is queer,” she added. “I can’t say it without smiling, actually. And that feels pretty great.”
Bush is now dating 38-year-old former member of the United States women’s national soccer team Ashlyn Harris. In her essay for Glamour, Bush explained how the support of women around her helped her pursue a relationship with the goalkeeper.
“It really took other people in our safe support bubble pointing out to me how we’d finish each other’s sentences or be deeply affected by the same things,” Bush wrote. “When you’re so in the trenches of hardship — plus you have the added weight of having to go through it on a public stage — it can be hard to see anything but what’s right in front of you.”
The couple have been photographed alongside one another at various events, including Elton John’s Oscars party in March and the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April.