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Explaining a gay relationship can already be daunting.
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Let alone explaining the more complicated nuances about queerness.
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Or any number of deeply personal romantic alignments unfamiliar to most.
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There's benefit in naming each identity.
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In that knowing they exist alleviates some measure of loneliness.
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Words can be used in ways that broaden — rather than restrict — everyone's happiness and choices.
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This can take time for you to discover.
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Or to explain to others.
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That doesn't mean you choose your partners that much differently than others.
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Queer should make these questions obsolete.
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Because it's about not trapping anyone in set binaries.
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And making more people feel at home in the LGBTQ community.
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As well as everywhere else.
