Reply To: LGBT +

[Joanna Jacklin]

Hi
My experience, albeit something I am engaged in more recently is that the LGBT+ community is a broad church and one that is welcoming of people like us who have a complex relationship to our identities. Whilst perceptions matter we should not feel that being part of the LGBT+ community means we are gay, though I guess the CD community is itself a broad one when it comes to our sexualities. I have found the LGBT+ community to be welcoming allies and people who experience many versions of exclusion/misunderstanding and worse. Of course there are elements who wil have narrow agendas but for a community that is quite on its own then I think the LGBT+ community is a space where much can be gained
Thanks for prompting this discussion
Joanna