I am grateful because while you’ve been fighting for your own survival, you’ve also been helping make it safer for me to be who I am. Wherever and whenever queerness has become more visible and more accepted, I’ve noticed that I’ve received fewer harmful reactions to my own (relatively mild) nonconformance with gender roles.
I breathe a sigh of relief whenever I see that I’m in a queer-friendly space, because I know there is safety for me there too.
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