00:00I identify as queer, androgynous, masculine of center.
00:07I feel like some people feel constrained by labels, you know, for me to be able to find
00:13my tribe.
00:13I don't really like the term lesbian.
00:15I don't know why, maybe it's like it feels a little old school to me.
00:19I like queer, it's a wider umbrella I feel.
00:22I like queer because it's just fluid.
00:24I understand why some people wouldn't like that term because it's very like in that binary
00:29of girl and boy, but for me it's, you know, being able to play with your masculine energy
00:34and your feminine energy and express that however that may be.
00:38You know the misgendering happens like every day, but one particular time it irked me.
00:43I was at the airport and I was going to the bathroom.
00:48It smelled like shit.
00:50Someone literally comes up to me and is like badgering me that I'm in the wrong bathroom.
00:54Really, you're going out of your way to check me about peeing right before I get on a flight
01:00in this place that smells like shit.
01:01Like I really don't want to be here.
01:02So that just blew my mind.
01:04I doubted myself because everyone's narrative up to that point was, I knew since I was four,
01:10I was suppressing it, et cetera, et cetera.
01:12I was so raised straight.
01:15I was just like, you know, looking for boyfriends, et cetera.
01:17It never occurred to me that I could be gay or queer or whatever until, I don't know,
01:24do you guys feel like everyone started being gay like ten, five, ten years ago?
01:29Like that's how I feel.
01:31You know, I said I was bi for a little bit.
01:33That's why I like the term androgynous because, you know, it gives me flexibility.
01:40I feel like it's easier to be queer now, obviously, than it was five, ten years ago.
01:45You know, like the kids nowadays, they be coming out when they're like nine.
01:49I'm like, damn, like I wasn't even like sexually active or have any romantic feelings when I
01:53was nine.
01:53The youths these days, not to like, you know, sound old, but they have like this, a dictionary
02:01of words that I never even dreamt of.
02:05And to be able to see something and be like, yo, that's me.
