Acceptance Archives - Into The Outside

“Consider why you feel the way you feel”
“I talk to my mum a bit. My family I think are aware, but we don’t really talk about it much”
“I started out thinking I was cis and straight, like most people”
“I expect it to be respected the same as anyone else’s gender identity, no more, no less”
“Sex ed. is just straight and for us that’s living hell”
“Everyone questioning an identity or an orientation wants to find out more”
“I love the fact that they’re building in new LGBTQ+ness into the media, as we know it”
“Politicians are there to represent us. We need to be political about our rights so that they get it”
“I have a lot of LGBTQ+ friends. A lot of them identify as many different things”
“The LGBTQ+ community is vibrant within my college, but is being drowned out when it comes to identity”
“There are genuine points when I decide ‘Let’s pop this skirt on and let’s see the world!’”
“My friends, luckily, are really accepting”
“There was a time where I wasn’t at all comfortable with this and I was very sort of isolated”
“I’m still actually quite new, to be completely honest, it hasn’t been long”
“We are only beginning to reach a period in culture where representatives of the kind of broader definitions of LGBTQ+ culture are being able to speak for themselves in the media”
“It’s hard, but generally person-to-person I’m accepted”
“It’s nice to feel a part of something”
“You can still hear people say fag and stuff. You still hear that”
“I’ve always kind of dressed like a tomboy since I was a kid. I hated girly things, but I’ve never really thought much of it”
“In the future it will become a lot easier to be yourself”
“It’s like a remembrance day. You remember a war because something bad happened. It’s the same for Pride. So many bad things have happened in history to gay people”
“If they know about it when they’re young, they won’t be horrible to people who are queer”
“Don’t worry if you don’t know, it might take you a while. It has taken me three years”
“We don’t have equality yet and that’s really shocking”
“I have never seen so many openly gay people. Never”
“I’ve had quite a lot of hate. My grandma is really religious and she made me have an exorcism”
“Certainly, in the last few decades, we’ve made great strides towards LGBTQ+ equality”
“At the end of the day, all we can really do is accept each other”
“I think in this age and generation, nobody should be afraid to do anything”
“My sister’s girlfriend, her mother didn’t approve of it really and spent a long time trying to make sure she didn’t feel comfortable”
“So me and my mum came out to each other!”
“I went to quite a religious school where it wasn’t really acceptable to talk about being gay”
“I feel happy with how I identify. I’ve got a lot of choice. That’s quite nice”
“I remember the one time I actually said to a group of people that I was straight and it was when I was really uncertain”
“I’d almost been out a year and so I wanted to feel like I was really part of the community and fully comfortable with my identity”
“It shows we’re a part of society. Everyone feels like they can express themselves in their own way. They don’t have to hide away”
“I took a long time to figure out exactly what my gender was and I’d been questioning it for a very long time”
“You could scream anything from the top of your lungs about your sexuality, or acceptance and everyone would probably just yell ‘Cool!’ back”
“I’ve always questioned my gender and I’m still not really sure”
“I talk to most of my friends. Quite a lot of them are queer, so it’s fine. Then the ones that aren’t, I try and talk to them and they ignore me”
“I enjoy being open and feeling like part of the community”
“It should be a Pride Day, Day of Pride, everywhere has it on the same day.”
“My dad’s side of the family is actually Muslim and I haven’t come out to them”
“I think we need to have, globally, acceptance of everyone and unknown identities, unknown genders”
“My friends are completely accepting”
“One thing I’ve noticed I start doing now is when I meet someone new, I don’t just ask their name, I ask their pronouns as well”
“This is just part of who I am and I should accept that. Everybody else should accept that and if they can’t, then that’s their problem”
“If everyone was just accepting, that’d be cool wouldn’t it?”
“I haven’t worked it out. How do you come out to your mum?”