Lgbtq Community Reflection

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The works I do in the community shows the positive impact I bring out for the LGBTQ community. I am able to be open with others about my sexuality with them not being too judgmental about it. As I work together with other people in different organizations of the city I live in, they finally realize that people in the LGBTQ community are just like them. I love to make people aware of the sexual preference of Pa sexuality. There was a life changing experience I had in a leadership group I was and constructed with other leaders in the community. We were giving different things about ourselves and I came out to them about my orientation. Some were shocked to hear I was straight like them. They were a few that stayed away just because of who I

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