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The lgbtq+ community has always meant power and acceptance for me, for me it has always been admirable how people continue to be themselves even between all this negativity.

So now when I think about how I reacted when I first thought that I may be bisexual is surprising. Living in a nation where homosexual relations are taboo and growing up in a household where it was considered as a mental illness, I was proud to have a different mindset, to know that love is the purest of all, regardless of its form.

But being on the other side, being a bisexual than just a teenager who supports the community is a lot different, am entire lifetime different.

Since I first thought about it, I tried everything from thinking about how much everyone would despise me if I even mentioned it to crying and asking God to guide me away from this "sin".

Then after months, it dawned on me. It came to me slowly yet all at once, that there was nothing wrong in who I chose to kiss and marry, that I should take pride that I don't have limit love because love is limitless, it is endless and it is in different forms all around us.

Lastly, I want to use this platform and communicate with the closeted lgbt+ youth, the things I wish someone would've told me when I was going through an inner turmoil:

The only way to be accepted by others is to accept yourself. You are brave enough to be yourself despite the negativity and there is nothing purer. They are afraid to give us a voice because they know we're capable of the change they wouldn't be able to handle. Happy Pride!