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We are Humans: LGBTQIA+

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It may not be pride month, but still continue on raising the flag. Photo retrieved from bento.cdn.pbs.org  “Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.” ―  Connor Franta      During my English class, I got a wonderful opportunity to meet Michael, the writer of a letter that my English teacher gave us to read. In his letter, he disclosed to his parents that he was homosexual with no one influencing him. There he opened how being gay is, what it taught him, what he experienced as a child and when he found his home, San Francisco. And in the end, he thanked his parents of what he became and reminded them that he is still the same Michael.      Every coming out story is different from others, some will have to repeatedly undergo the same process to different people and some will have to do it once. However, it will always be hard for those people who wish to come out fearing that they will be j