• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      It doesn’t take work to be LGBT+, that’s something you’re born as. You could definitely argue that for many people in our current society it takes sacrifice to be openly LGBT+ though

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        17 hours ago

        It certainly does take work to be gay when it’s societally unacceptable. Either you do work to hide it, or you do work to convince yourself that you’re not.

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          You’re right. In this society it takes work to be LGBT+. And if you do something based on that, it also takes effort, which can make you proud. But it’s still not a choice to be LGBT+, and in other societies it would not be anything to be proud of, just as you shouldn’t be proud to be white, or straight.