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Into The Outside

Building a Contemporary Queer Youth Archive in Brighton & Hove

Family and relationships

  • “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?”

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