voices
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“Consider why you feel the way you feel”
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“We need to be as loud as the people who don’t have to fight for their voice”
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“I’m not as well versed in it as I feel I should be as an LGBTQ+ person”
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“Most of my friends are LGBTQ+. I think I have one straight cis friend!”
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“I went to a Pride in Portsmouth, which was drastically different”
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“I talk to my mum a bit. My family I think are aware, but we don’t really talk about it much”
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“I’ve chosen the clothes for a reason”
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“I started out thinking I was cis and straight, like most people”
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“I expect it to be respected the same as anyone else’s gender identity, no more, no less”
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“I don’t associate with any gender”
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“Sex ed. is just straight and for us that’s living hell”
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“Everyone questioning an identity or an orientation wants to find out more”
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“I love the fact that they’re building in new LGBTQ+ness into the media, as we know it”
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“Politicians are there to represent us. We need to be political about our rights so that they get it”
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“In Russia, they’re putting us in concentration camps”
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“I know there was a lot of opposition against our community back in the old day”
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“It’s nice to know that you’re part of something that’s just brilliantly vibrant”
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“I have a lot of LGBTQ+ friends. A lot of them identify as many different things”
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“I’d say Brighton Pride has a brilliant atmosphere”
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“The LGBTQ+ community is vibrant within my college, but is being drowned out when it comes to identity”
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“There are genuine points when I decide ‘Let’s pop this skirt on and let’s see the world!’”
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“A name isn’t everything”
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“I’ve been through a lot and I think I’m pretty happy where I am”
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“My name has changed over the years, because I felt I couldn’t identify as my birth name”
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“It’s a joint venture between being non-binary and also being male”
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“My friends, luckily, are really accepting”
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“There was a time where I wasn’t at all comfortable with this and I was very sort of isolated”
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“I’m still actually quite new, to be completely honest, it hasn’t been long”
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“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”
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“Pride is important, because it allows us to be together in solidarity”
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“It’s increasingly becoming less of a political event and more of a just a big party, which annoys me a bit”
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“Brighton Pride, it’s sort of THE event of Brighton and also it’s an event celebrating my community”
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“It’s hard, but generally person-to-person I’m accepted”
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“Generally I identify as a girl, although some days I’m a little bit kind of not, so just like 97% girl or something”
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“Some people don’t like labels, but for me being bi has been something that’s meant quite a lot to me”
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“It’s nice to feel a part of something”
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“You can still hear people say fag and stuff. You still hear that”
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“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”
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“In the future it will become a lot easier to be yourself”
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“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”
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“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”
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“If they know about it when they’re young, they won’t be horrible to people who are queer”
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“Don’t worry if you don’t know, it might take you a while. It has taken me three years”
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“We don’t have equality yet and that’s really shocking”
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“I find it a bit overwhelming”
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“I have never seen so many openly gay people. Never”
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“I’ve had quite a lot of hate. My grandma is really religious and she made me have an exorcism”
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“Certainly, in the last few decades, we’ve made great strides towards LGBTQ+ equality”
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“At the end of the day, all we can really do is accept each other”
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“I feel like there’s a lot of ‘It’s OK to be this, it’s OK to be whatever you want to be’ but they don’t say how”
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“I think in this age and generation, nobody should be afraid to do anything”
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“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”
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“I think mainly in school we’re taught what everything means, but not really any of the past history from it”
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“I do have a lot of transgender and gay friends. Sometimes I do talk to them about stuff like this, because I want to learn more. I want to make sure I understand it”
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“There were people playing ukuleles and singing. It was so open and it was so lovely”
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“The school’s good to speak to, but they won’t really solve any of the issues that they’re having”
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“They’re always asking me what certain words mean for certain things”
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“So me and my mum came out to each other!”
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“I realised the things that made me identify as one or the other, were inherently really sexist“
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“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!”
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“To show that solidarity is very important I think”
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“I went to quite a religious school where it wasn’t really acceptable to talk about being gay”
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“I think representation is important”
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“Although I identify as male, I still quite like wearing feminine clothes”
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“This is my first Pride. I thought it would be a really nice opportunity to be around more people like me”
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“I feel happy with how I identify. I’ve got a lot of choice. That’s quite nice”
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“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”
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“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”
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“My parents bought me the ticket to Pride for Christmas”
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“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”
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“I took a long time to figure out exactly what my gender was and I’d been questioning it for a very long time”
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“You could scream anything from the top of your lungs about your sexuality, or acceptance and everyone would probably just yell ‘Cool!’ back”
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“It kind of changes how people think about you and how they act around you”
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“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”
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“I’ve always questioned my gender and I’m still not really sure”
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“I have to consider passing as male, so I don’t get horrifically mis-gendered everyday”
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“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”
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“I enjoy being open and feeling like part of the community”
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“It should be a Pride Day, Day of Pride, everywhere has it on the same day.”
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“My dad’s side of the family is actually Muslim and I haven’t come out to them”
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“I decided to come to Pride today because, number one, I am very rainbow”
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“I’m getting kind of annoyed at the way that being a gay man is kind of seen as the most culturally valid form of being queer”
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“I don’t think I have a single straight friend, so they’re all very accepting”
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“I think we need to have, globally, acceptance of everyone and unknown identities, unknown genders”
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“I feel like once I have chosen an identity, or found myself, I will be accepted”
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“I love Pride. It’s one of my favourite days of the year”
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“There were so many other people that I could relate to there.”
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“I want it to change that people don’t label people as soon as they see them”
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“My friends are completely accepting”
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“I thought I might try out male pronouns and that felt right”
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“I was told by someone, well actually by a few people, that I am the most gay person they know”
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“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”
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“That’s just how they are, so I’m quite happy. It went as well as it could do I think”
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“In Brighton, I think sexuality wise, it’s a lot more accepting ”
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“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”
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“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”
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“If everyone was just accepting, that’d be cool wouldn’t it?”
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“I haven’t worked it out. How do you come out to your mum?”
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“I guess it’s chill to realise that you can be androgynous and not just a stereotype of a girl”