LGBT Community Pride Monologue

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All the shots mentioned in the chapter about the title sequence are from San Francisco. The city is known to have a high population of gay people and there are many pride flags all over the city and especially the Castro district showing the pride of the LGBT community. This is why it is no surprise that Nomi Marks lives in that city with her girlfriend.
Her girlfriend Amanita Caplan wears her hair in dreads of which some parts are coloured pink, lavender and blue which are the colours of the bisexual pride flag. So even though it is not explicitly said that she is bisexual it is shown through her hair. She takes pride in her sexuality and is not ashamed to show with her looks that she is bisexual.
Nomi is as well proud of her identity, she

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