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I’m curious, if someone identifies as LGBTQIA+, do u automatically feel “this person and I have something we can connect on” or do you only feel that if they also identify as the same one as you?
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7 upvotes, 6 comments. Yik Yak poll by Anonymous in LGBTQIA+. "I’m curious, if someone identifies as LGBTQIA+, do u automatically feel “this person and I have something we can connect on” or do you only feel that if they also identify as the same one as you?"
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Anonymous 14w

i feel in community with other queer people who identify themselves with our community and struggle, it’s not about whether or not someone identifies as “LGBTQIA+” or whether their identity is “similar” to mine. for ex, i don’t see myself in community with or identity with caitlyn jenner or kalvin garrah etc, but there are many other trans people (even famous trans people) who i would identify with or as in community with.

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Anonymous 14w

Why not all identities /gen

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Anonymous 14w

I mean there’s degrees of it. On some level I do feel it with every queer person but if they’re more similar to me then it does make the connection stronger.

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Anonymous 14w

I think it really depends on the person and my mood. There have been some queer people I’ve related to a lot who are nothing like me and others who share the same identity as me and yet we were wildly different

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Anonymous 14w

i agree with #1 and i fee like i feel i’m community with anyone who is queer and has similar general belief systems as me. but wether we have “similar” identities doesn’t really matter. i’m a gay trans guy and i feel most in community with just like queer women who tbh care about similar things as me (environment, climate, humans rights, feminism, even just like anime or other shared interest too lol)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14w

I’m just glad when I meet another LGBTQIA+ person 😄

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