JessicaAKA.
Rainbow Generation:Lauren
-Who are you?
I’m Lauren(@sharp-force-trauma), I work part time as a receptionist for student accommodation, and spend the rest of my time boxing.
-What do you identify as?
I identify as queer, I find it so much simpler to describe myself as that than breaking my sexual and romantic attraction into different categories. Being LGBT gets easier as I’ve got older and found more LGBT people to be around; when you’re in school, you can’t be fully out or out at all. There’s still a lot of issues surrounding the LGBT community, there’s still homophobia and there’s still divide in the actual community towards bisexuals, asexuals, and trans people. I’m glad I can be openly queer, I don’t feel the same fear I did as a teenager to be who I am, but there is always that worry of being rejected from the community when I’m in a heterosexual relationship’
Rainbow Generation:Lauren
-Who are you?
I’m Lauren(@sharp-force-trauma), I work part time as a receptionist for student accommodation, and spend the rest of my time boxing.
-What do you identify as?
I identify as queer, I find it so much simpler to describe myself as that than breaking my sexual and romantic attraction into different categories. Being LGBT gets easier as I’ve got older and found more LGBT people to be around; when you’re in school, you can’t be fully out or out at all. There’s still a lot of issues surrounding the LGBT community, there’s still homophobia and there’s still divide in the actual community towards bisexuals, asexuals, and trans people. I’m glad I can be openly queer, I don’t feel the same fear I did as a teenager to be who I am, but there is always that worry of being rejected from the community when I’m in a heterosexual relationship’