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“Most of my friends are LGBTQ+. I think I have one straight cis friend!”
“I talk to my mum a bit. My family I think are aware, but we don’t really talk about it much”
“I have a lot of LGBTQ+ friends. A lot of them identify as many different things”
“A name isn’t everything”
“My school had a Stonewall award and I ended up running the LGBTQ+ group, so it was really great and really good fun. All of my teachers were completely supportive of me”
“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”
“I’ve had quite a lot of hate. My grandma is really religious and she made me have an exorcism”
“The school’s good to speak to, but they won’t really solve any of the issues that they’re having”
“They’re always asking me what certain words mean for certain things”
“So me and my mum came out to each other!”
“I don’t really mind what pronouns people use. I normally put ‘they’ on my sticker, because it’s easier than writing ‘whatever takes your fancy!”
“Although I identify as male, I still quite like wearing feminine clothes”
“This is my first Pride. I thought it would be a really nice opportunity to be around more people like me”
“I feel happy with how I identify. I’ve got a lot of choice. That’s quite nice”
“My parents bought me the ticket to Pride for Christmas”
“Sometimes I feel like I want to wear more feminine clothing, but mostly I wear masculine clothes to present how I’d like my pronouns to be”
“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”
“My dad’s side of the family is actually Muslim and I haven’t come out to them”
“My friends are completely accepting”
“That’s just how they are, so I’m quite happy. It went as well as it could do I think”
“Being part of this project has opened my mind to identities out there that I didn’t know existed. So I’m trying them on to see how they fit”
“I haven’t worked it out. How do you come out to your mum?”