Over the years, I’ve realised that, for queer people in a heteronormative world, life is a series of coming outs – when you start a new job, meet new people, or navigate everyday life.
In fact, I was outed not long after that – I told one friend who told someone else, and I went to school one day to find that everybody knew.
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After I came out to my mum at 15, I used to worry that I would never make friends and find people like me.
The only LGBTQ+ people in the media were either older or archetypes, so it was confusing to navigate coming out and what that might look like for someone like me.
