{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/iiif/kd1qf8kc22/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["112018"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/210/original/The_Empathy_Archive_logo.png?1701124070","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Project"]},"value":{"en":["Youth Citizenship Narrative Project"]}},{"label":{"en":["Theme"]},"value":{"en":["Coming-Out"]}},{"label":{"en":["Age"]},"value":{"en":["18-25"]}},{"label":{"en":["Race"]},"value":{"en":["White"]}},{"label":{"en":["Ethnicity"]},"value":{"en":["Latino"]}},{"label":{"en":["Gender"]},"value":{"en":["Female"]}},{"label":{"en":["Recording Type"]},"value":{"en":["Field Recording"]}}],"provider":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["The Empathy Archive"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["The Empathy Archive"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/210/original/The_Empathy_Archive_logo.png?1701124070","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collections/default_thumbs/000/001/731/small/DSCF6473.jpg?1694562649","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - open-uri20211202-21802-1sdthz6.mpga"]},"duration":1497.264,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collections/default_thumbs/000/001/731/small/DSCF6473.jpg?1694562649","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-culturalmediaarchive.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/130/854/original/open-uri20211202-21802-1sdthz6.mpga?1638443320","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1497.264,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["AUTO_TRINT_open-uri20211202-21802-1sdthz6.mpga [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Could you please share your coming out story?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=2.13,4.8"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, coming out was kind of fluid in a sense, where it was never like a big statement. It was more like in high school. I would say some type of comment like, Oh, that girl's really cute or something like that. And then someone will ask like, Oh, are you lesbian? And they'll be like, No. And they'll be like, Oh, so you're bi? Like, kinda. Because I was at that point where I knew I was, man, but I didn't know there was like a term for it. So that was really and I didn't want to really put myself in a label or box because there I was still unsure of who I really was. So I felt like in high school I was slowly coming out to people in a very. Like, it wasn't a statement. It was just like, Oh, there's that about her. Like you find it in tiny little snippets. And then my mom remarried and I spent a lot of time with her husband, my stepdad, and we'd be in the car and he'll talk about previous relationships and they were with women. And I asked him questions about, you know, like, what's it like dating a woman? Because I was very unsure as well, because that's not something that gets socialized on how to do correctly, I guess. So in a way, I kind of came out of the closet, but my stepdad never really took that kind of stuff seriously. He always saw like women, especially like though they always go through by phases or they don't, you know, it's just stuff for attention. So I felt like that coming out was almost useless because it was like, okay, well, you're not even going to grant this is me actually coming out. It's more like just more stories to tell. And, you know, it wasn't really acknowledged. And I feel like within dating it was kind of a parent because you'd have those conversations where it's like, Oh, I'm also attracted to women and, you know, non-conforming as well. And it was because I've only dated, unfortunately, straight males. So like, I never really got to come out in a way that was through a relationship because I never got to meet people that I clicked with that were people outside of that because it was so easy to date. Straight men like it's super just you go in any social atmosphere and it's like one of the easiest things you can almost do. And I feel like to come out in a way where it's like, Oh, I'm dating someone that's not really expected by everybody else. Like, I never really got to do that. So I feel like in a way I didn't get to fully come out because I've never officially dated someone that was not like as a cis head man. Yeah. So I feel like that's really all there is to like me coming out because I feel like it's really just one leg out more than anything else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=6.92,198.66"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you ever tell your mother?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=199.35,200.1"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e No. Oh, absolutely not. My mom, she never I mean, she just assumed because I was only dating guys that I was straight. So it was so much easier. And I've already watched her deal with my sister because my sister's out. She's 16. Oh, sorry. Oh, my God. Can I, like. Can we raise that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=201.09,220.77"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, well, no, actually, but she's not to be identified.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=221.65,224.58"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, okay, great. So sorry. I was thinking of the context of the story, but she's young, and she came out to my mom, and it didn't turn out very well. Like it was a lot of fighting that happened in my family, especially since my stepdad was involved. And it was a lot of like, Oh, you don't really know what you want. You're like just a teenager. Like, why is that something here? Prioritizing, which was kind of true. Like she made it a very big deal to make it very apparent of her sexuality. Like she would just literally meet people and be like, Hi, my name is Nay, my name is so-and-so and I'm gay. Like, she didn't even, like, smoothly do it, which is also fine. Like, you know, do what you want. But to see the reaction from my parents where it's like, Oh, she's such an attention getter. She doesn't really know what she wants. She's just saying that because she's confused, like mixed with my idea of do I even know what I want? Do I even, like I've only dated straight guys? Am I really like Pam? And I kept on doubting myself, even though, like, I have that innate feeling where it's like, I know I'm not like, just in one sector of the spectrum. Like, I know that it is as fluid as it gets. And so to say that to my mom is something that, first of all, she doesn't want to hear because there's a lot of things that we are not open to in our mother daughter relationship because of the fact of she likes living in denial, even in previous relationships and things that have happened in the past, she kind of pretends they don't happen and she would rather live that way. So he kept it that way. And she also had a lot of gay friends growing up in And I say where she was born. She was born in the Philippines. So she met a lot of like lady boys and like gay men. And she worked primarily with them. And she had to watch them be like, be mistreated and, like, go through the worst. And for her to think like, oh, like my own children are going to have to go through that. You know, it really like it was like a stress she didn't want to handle. And she'd rather have the narrative of if you can just pretend to be straight for the sake of like your own ease of living your life, why not just do that? She even brought up, like, if you had a choice, why not just stay straight as if it was a choice? So I already can tell her mindset and dynamic of anything to do with anything queer was definitely altered because of what she saw in the Philippines of her friends getting beaten, mistreated, and whatever else may have happened that she doesn't even want to mention. So to see that, you know, one daughter is already queer and to have the other one potentially be more or less queer or whatever was not something that I think she would have been able to handle. And I don't think it would have affected her in a positive way, like it would have just strained our relationship. And it's not something that I don't like. My mother already doesn't know that much about me anyway. Like why even bring this in? Like, she barely even knows what I study, you know? So, you know, it's more expectations that I do not want to feel for her. So, yeah, I just decide not to even talk about it with my mom. Because even when she brings up, you know, my sister, it's just like, okay, we're we're never going to see eye to eye. So why pretend, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=225.27,442.02"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Have you ever told your sister?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=442.59,443.19"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yeah. Ever since she's been out, I'm like, Oh, yes, same. It's kind of it's been really mutual. And it's like one of those things where she'll tell me, tell me about, like, girls or guys she'll date and I'll give her my perspective on it because of my experiences. And it's just like I feel like the way we see our queerness is just like normal. Like, okay, you're dating. Whatever. You're not dating. It's it's, it is what it is. And it got to the point where it's like it wasn't like such a huge deal. It just made us closer, in a sense, to where we had this connection that no one else in the family had because we were the only queer ones in the immediate family. We have an aunt that I personally lived with for about three months and she was one of the most open and one of the only people in my sister's side of the family who was out like since she was a kid and she got a lot of positive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=444.39,506.66"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, is that right? No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=510.68,512.39"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e So, yeah, I lived with my aunt for about three months and she was super open, and I feel like that gave me a lot of clarity on where I was in the spectrum, at least her and like, the fact that I bounce off and on and what not. And she introduced a lot of queer people in my life that really helped me become more open minded and understanding about myself and others. And then my sister was really close to her, too. So, you know, queer culture finally became more apparent. It was something my sister and I got along with that nobody else in the family, like, understood, Like, we'll make jokes and nobody else really gets it because they don't get it. And it was just it was just nice to have that little bonding thing that, you know, and to be able to come to each other when there's heartbreak or when there is any type of negativity due to the fact. So it was definitely it was it was a good feeling to know that there's somebody else that's like immediate that you can go to. And I'm sure she feels the same way since she's at such a young point in her life. And I feel like with both of us being queer, we have a little brother and he like, does not get that. Like, he's still kind of I don't think he's homophobic, but I feel like the jokes he makes makes those unintended just he makes jokes and doesn't really like the implications that it has. And I feel like by having two openly queer sisters to him, you know, he he keeps quiet as well. I feel like he now has that extra understanding of how your words can truly hurt another person or just make those negative stigmas and whatnot. So yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=514.28,623.81"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e When did you realize you felt different? You felt like in a young age or more like when did you realize?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=626.42,633.35"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e So I found my sexuality at a dauntingly young age. When I moved to the to America, I was already becoming very sexually aware because of reasons of like previous trauma abuse, harassment from a previous marriage that my mom had in their families was extremely abusive. And then from there it was already like I realized there's something about my body that does things that I didn't know it did, so that natural like exploration didn't become as much as wanted as a child should go through because it's natural for children to find out, Oh, my body does this, but then to find it in such like a almost demonic way, it was like, yikes. And I had to learn how to accept that because at the time I was like a devout Christian. So to think of anything like to see myself as like a sexual being at all was already like, First of all, you're a child. And second of all, you know, you're you know, you're Christian, so it's like you you already know this is bad. You know, stop it. And I got introduced to the Internet like at a very early age. And so I was already you know, it is awful because it's like I was already finding porn at such a young age. I would say around I would say it's early is like middle school, maybe even late elementary school was because my mom's ex-husband in his closet, he'd have these disks and I had my own mini DVD player and I was a curious person. And I went through his desk and I found out they were born. And I went through it and I realized, like, I'm attracted to women, like, no way. Cool. But then, like, over time, it's like, you know, you start getting used to it and then you become so desensitized. Part of me was like, Are you actually attracted to women or is it just the fact that they're so objectified that you're attracted to them? And I went through a whole, you know, am I doing this for attention? Am I doing this because, you know, I've been so desensitized to it. And I was actually battling my sexuality for quite a long time. And it was weird, like I would go to school and I'm like, am I attracted to girls? And I would literally try to find girls that I was like, attracted to. And I didn't do that with guys, but I felt like because I was so used to that, but it was like I was at a time where it's like, I'm not even thinking about dating. And because dating in a heterosexual way was so normal, it was like, okay, I can get used to this. More like, part of me is like, I want to really know by actually dating a girl. And there was a time that I really wanted to just strictly date girls for that reason as well. And I realized how much of a. Basic idea that was and how it naturally would be. But at that time, of course, I don't really know. And I would, you know, there would be some girls that would be a little flirtatious and stuff like that. But I lived in the Bible Belt area. It wasn't that easy to just be open about your sexuality. It wasn't just like, you know, if you if you were gay, you were the gay guy, you were the lesbian girl, you. Majority of the women in my life that they've just recently come out of the closet that I've seen any involved moved outside of the state. We an area we lived in to live happier open lives. So even then, it wasn't even something that I could experiment with myself or find out through that through actual experiences. And then I moved to California and I get in my first actual relationship and it was very toxic. And that relationship actually brought me more considerations of actually exploring my sexuality because at first he mentioned that he was okay with being in an open relationship until he realized that I would be getting more attention. And then the idea was over. Like I've already found people that were interested and then I had to shut it down for the sake of that person's insecurity. So never mind. So that was already shaken off. And we didn't have an openly gay community in my high schools. But I've been to I've been to three high schools and neither of them had like an openly like LGBT. Yeah, none of it. Because the one I went to the first high school I went to in California, there were already I was in band and there were people who were in the closet and you can tell and there was one person who was not out of the closet and it was a a trans individual. And there would be another student who's actually friends with that person somewhat, and they would say, Oh, stop calling her. He, you know, she wins whenever you say that. And just stuff like that. Like you could tell like what the climate was and why people kept quiet because people even made jokes about the band director being gay without clarification, if he was or not, just by the simple means of a Facebook profile photo. So just that judgment from that, it's like, why would anyone come out? You know, so and then when I did come out to people, especially in band and like the high school setting, I just came out as bi and a lot of women who were straight felt That was like an invitation to just like grab my boobs. And I was just like very in shock. Like part of me was so naive and was thinking like, Oh, like you should be happy that you were even getting attention because I never got it. And then part of me is like, This is really wrong. Like I'm being taken advantage of again, and this time by this, you know, the gender that I was so hoping to possibly have a relationship with one day. And it was really it was a very, very confusing time. So that was a lot of high school is just not finding much of the gay community. So I kind of just like kept it and just kept being in straight relationships, never really like felt fully satisfied with my sexuality. Even to this day. I'm in like a very happy, very, very, very happy, satisfied relationship. But I still feel like there's a component of my sexuality that will that won't be discovered if I do decide to commit for, you know, the whole lifetime run, which is fine because, you know, some people beg to have like a wonderful relationship. But part of me is just like I feel like me, my sexuality and my spirituality has not been fully awakened because of that lack of, I guess, you know, those experiences. And I've expressed that even to my partner. Like I've said, I've talked about my sexuality and it's, um, fluidity and the wide spectrum that it is, and it's like something that's still kind of like, I don't think I'll ever be able to come out because of that, like fully, fully come out. Like people know that I might be this, that I label myself that. But is she really because she never really lived that life? You know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=634.91,1080.44"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e You came out to your bandmates. What was the reactions?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=1081.64,1084.16"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I was sexualized like I became another lesbian fetish. Like it was just another one of those where it's like, are you going to take a video or are you going to let us like this? It was immediately, but I felt like a lot of it was my fault because of it. I was a very promiscuous person, that it was very attention getting that as a high school, I was very immature and negative attention was still attention. So I was at that point where. It was another way for me to basically I hate saying this word, but like Scout, like, Oh, she's bi, so we should, you know. But I was always in a relationship, like, I was always in a stupid relationship too. And even coming out to like, like I've had other band mates who would come out to me but not even fully come out where it's like, Oh, I have sexual relations with my best friend who is the same sex, but it's platonic. Like they wouldn't even admit that they are breaking their own sexuality and they're already doing the act like they wouldn't even accept it. So to be in that environment where it wasn't free to just be who you are and do what makes you happy, pleases you, whatever. It was very it wasn't an open place. It was exploitation more than anything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=1086.71,1166.07"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e So have your experiences coming out, being sexualized as you have? Have they put coming out in a negative light to you coming out to other people?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=1166.93,1175.31"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I think so, because I feel like if I say I'm pan or I'm bi or whatever it may be, it's just I feel like it's always questioning that validity, like I can't be myself without validating it to others. But and I feel like I need to do that to even validate it to myself when I know, in fact who I am. Like, I'm like so confident within myself. And I feel like every time I even try to mention that aspect about myself, it's like you're not gay enough, obviously, because you're straight. Like you prove a straight lifestyle. So there's no point in coming out when you don't have enough proof that you're even someone worthy of coming out. It's like when someone comes out, people kind of expect that Instagram photo of, you know, finally showing their partner or, you know, a sad story about coming out to their parents or something like it always people kind of expect it to be like a big thing. And for me, it's just like it's part of who I am. It's not the biggest thing of who I am. There are parts of me that wishes I could explore it more, but it's like, that's not it's not a singular being. It's just, okay, cool. This is part of it. And I don't intend to come out to others because I don't feel like a lot of conversations will need it. Unless if we were to talk about something like queerness or sexuality or, you know, things of that matter. But I just feel like that topic has never become something that needs to be addressed, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=1176.39,1275.27"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e In the league community coming out, how have you experienced that? Has it been different? Have you been more accepted like or have you been feeling any like Biphobia or anything like that? Or is the biphobia you're feeling? Is that strictly for like heterosexual individuals or has it been any of the LGBTQ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=1275.99,1299.36"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I feel like I definitely gotten biphobia, especially from like heterosexual men. Like I remember being in a previous relationship and I addressing that I was bi and he mentioned that he took a gender studies course once and how, you know, gay rights were, you know, adamantly fighting against bisexuals because, you know, you choose one or the other. And he was addressing it as if he kind of believed that too, that women are just being their usual sexual selves and just, you know, making a profit out of being by It just it just didn't make sense, like the way it was presented to me. And I felt like in the LGBT community, I felt like and the previous college I went to, um, there was like a gay straight alliance, and I wasn't really involved in it because there were a lot of people who were part of that establishment that were toxic individuals. And I refused to be part of something that didn't represent the community well. So I just decided not to become part of that community. And I was friends with certain individuals and our queerness was celebrated in our personal safe spaces with our friends that identify and respect who we are and etc.. But other than that, it was just those people. I mean, unless if it was a close friend that knew, Oh yeah, she's, she's been. But it's not like something we constantly talk or even really bring up to light. I mean, I'll have best friends that'll be guys. And you know, they feel they're very accepting because they know like, oh, they kind of treat me like I'm another guy friend to talk about women and all that stuff. And a lot of it gets kind of disgusting with the way that, you know, women get objectified by other men. So there are times that I have to call them out on that kind of behavior. But because they feel comfortable talking to me about that kind of thing, I feel like that is an avenue where people can truly learn from each other to, you know, unlearn those kind of things. So I felt like in ways my queerness could be such as could be celebrated because of the narratives it brings in conversations. So other than that, I mean, this is pretty like this is pretty much the first experience being in a new university, being in an actual, like LGBT community. And it's it's definitely such a new experience and I can't even say much more besides it being one of the most positive and inclusive experiences I've ever. Like, I don't have to question things. You are just who you are. It's not even like I have to explain myself. It's just you are who you are. You're accepted and you owe no one any explanations. And I think that's one of the more beautiful things of actually finding a real accepting community, whether it be a specifically like LGBT community or just a community who loves and accepts you for who you are, period, for all your weirdness or whatever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=1300.0,1487.0"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e So yeah. All right. Well, thank you so much for.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854#t=1488.05,1494.07"}]},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1731/collection_resources/56659/file/130854/transcript/44937/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/044/937/original/open-uri20230706-255393-klubtr?1688668156","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/044/937/original/open-uri20230706-255393-klubtr?1688668156"}]}]}]}