Challenge
I know that Pride Month is almost over, but write something about the LGBTQ+ community. Whether you are in it or just support it. All I ask is please no negativity against the community, everyone has their views, but I'd like this to be positive.
Please, be kind, but also speak the truth.
I was approaching my sophomore year when I finally internalized that I was a lesbian. My friends made this transition from a lost, questioning girl to a gender-unconcerned woman lover infinitely easier when they came out along with me. Although they do not know it, I am indebted to my friends for encouraging me to be confident in my identity. It also helps that my sexual orientation, lesbian, is recognizable whereas my friends, who are pansexual or nonbinary, have to lay the foundation of understanding with an unfamiliar vernacular. I truly wish I could help my friends overcome the homonormativity, or the idea that all those who are not heterosexual are homosexual, they constantly encounter.
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