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I don't like it as a person who's idea of their gender identity and sexuality changes multiple times over the course of a day.

Its more overall I think its a complicated situation, the ideal one is to have it normalised in the sense its neither given a lot of attention, but not ignored either.

As a kid around 10 years old I saw gay/bi characters on tv in sitcoms and such who I knew were dating but as I was so young I didn't think about anything sexual or past the idea they were just 2 people who were in a relationship.

Why does gay identitity and such still mostly get shown to be flamboyant, and its not straight people who do this its actual gay people who just roll with stereotypes?

Theres no right way but I think so many wrong ways that end up doing more damage than good.

I have a "offensive" view that I think sexuality and gender identity is complicated and not automatically label, indirectly someones preference can be affected by factors in life, by preference I don't mean someone can't be born gay or straight but a butterfly effect can have effects on their personalities and judgement, over recent years many people I have spoken to who labelled themselves seem to be more like a tick box exercise and very often because the media tells them they fit these stereotypes therefore they must be a certain way, especially when it comes to teenagers and kids.

The most common is, teenagers we know feel like outcasts due to things like their changing hormones and becoming young adults, but they are the first to be told if they have feelings for say the same gender they must automatically be gay or bi, when the reality like pretty much everything theres a broad range of things and no one size fits all, its more damaging to say they tick boxes so thats all they can be.

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