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  3. You actually have a good subscription ratio! My channel is shite compared to yours, but an amazing 98% of people whom watch me, AREN'T subscribed.
    YouTube, that's just what it is!

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  5. I hate it when I tell someone that I’m not ok and they tell me stuff like “you’ll be ok” “hang on it’ll get better soon”. Even if that’s the truth it often doesn’t feel like it nor does it help me at all. Whenever someone says that I just feel more down and not comfortable to talk to the, about it again :/

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  9. I'm straight and cisgender and I go to a United Church of Christ church (we have same-sex marriages and pastors and other leaders who are in the LGBT+ community) and I've personally learned about inclusive interpretations of the Bible (it's usually about context and translation) and I have hope for people in the LGBT+ community, but I think I would feel afraid if I had to deal with being something different. I've seen a lot of anti-gay Christians just hate people who are in the LGBT+ community and then want understanding for themselves (or other people) if they get divorced (and remarried) and it's not because someone cheated on them.

    Traditionally, it wouldn't have mattered how much they studied the Bible or how distressed they were, they would have been stuck in a bad marriage or if they were able to be divorced they would have had to stay unmarried and might even be limited in church life. However, and I can't make someone believe something, I've seen the same people turn on the people in the LGBT+ community in the same way they didn't want to be treated or in the way they didn't.

    I think that instead of hating people because we think we're better and because we had an easier time as straight and cisgender people, no matter how we see the Bible, we could at least understand that being in the LGBT+ community is not a choice and some people need to come out the same way some straight cisgender people needed divorces and understanding from their church families. Also, at least for Christians, we don't get to kill people. Jesus stopped that and I think it's that there was a time some people had to go, but really all of us are sinners and we can't kill people as Christians because they sin (and, like I said, I've learned about inclusive interpretations, but it's easier for me because I'm straight and cisgender).

    I feel like most people understand a lot of Bible passages are about people who made a choice to turn away from God, but they should understand actually gay, lesbian, bisexual, and similar people can love God so much and they cannot change their sexuality and no sexuality is not a choice. It's sort of like how people who get divorced and it's not because someone cheated never meant to do something wrong. They just felt the need to be happier and they want God's love and understanding and our love and understanding. Every person I've seen struggling with this would choose to be straight if it could save them from being hurt.

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  13. I fall into that "not sure if on the rainbow where I am or whaaa?" category. I tend to refer to myself as straight but it's more like "I like guys the best but some girls are so beautiful that I would be very interested in kissing her."

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  14. The GIC waiting times through the NHS suck. I got referred in June 2018 and it's almost June 2021 and I haven't heard a single thing from the GIC. I also haven't had any support offered.

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  15. I'm trans non binary and the amount of hate comments I've gotten when at college (UK college) was mostly from staff and not from other teenagers/students. Which shocked me. I was expecting hate to come from stupid kids but nope. It was the adults.

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  16. In Poland there are LGBT-free zones, where it's NOT EVEN LEGAL to be part of this community or just not straight in general 😓😓. it's really sad and frustrating, I hope that our Polish government will change, because I cannot live in a country like that. I can't even vote yet.

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  23. The sexualisation of bisexual people (women in particular) is so deep rooted in mysgony too because we're already deemed as lying, manipulative cheats and apparently loving more than one gender means that you are disloyal and greedy. How does that even make sense. Anyways, I now have serious relationship insecurities, anxiety and depression so… but I am working on it and I do love who I am it's just hard that other people dont.

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  27. I'm fr boutta send this to my mom she was like "if being lgbt isn't bad why do you have all these mental health problems" and i didnt know how to respond i was just like it's not bad??

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  28. I'm straight so I'm not the target audience here, but I just want everyone who falls under the rainbow umbrella to know,

    You have a friend in me.

    In the past when I've made statements such as this, I've been accused of virtue signaling. Please know I'm not — this isn't simply lip service. For whomever needs to hear this:

    You are loved and you deserve happiness and affection. Your sex and gender and other forms of identity do not change this fact. I'm so sorry for all the difficult parts that come with being part of the LGBTQ+ community, and I'm so excited for the social changes we've seen toward acceptance of that which we don't understand. There's so much further to go, but you are worth it and I am in this struggle with you.

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  30. I know you know this since you included it in the video, but acknowledging those of us that don't know where we fall in the rainbow (so to speak) or do know if a label is even a thing we want is a huge, huge thing. Thank you so much. <3

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  32. As Morgan Freeman once said " I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. Your not scared. Your just an idiot." Why do the LGBTQ+ community get hate but straight people do. Tbh though they are just jealous we have flags lol 😆 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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  33. I'm biromantic, and a few years ago in middle school, I had come out to a friend and his friends about liking another girl. One of these people, instead of keeping it a secret because I specifically told him I was uncomfortable with anyone else knowing, decided to tell nearly my entire class about it. This led to my mental health basically plummeting down to rock bottom. I felt isolated and distant from other people, I would get strange looks from other girls, I would be paranoid any time I saw someone gossiping in fear that it was about me , I hated myself, I detested going into dressrooms because out of fear of getting bad looks from other people (On multiple occasions I would change in bathroom stalls just to avoid this), I avoided consversations about LGBTQ+, I even considered suicide on multiple occasions. For a time when I became a christian again I was really homophobic as a way to distance myself from the gossip about me and tried to supress any possible attraction I might have felt for people of the same gender. And all of this because one guy couldn't keep a secret. This guy also was a huge gigantic liar, and told me one day that the entire class hated me and that he had told that girl I used to like (by that time I had gotten over the crush) that I had a crush on her and that she didn't care at all about me and hated me too. Basically a huge jerk. Now, my mental health has improved a bit and I've gotten over that homophobic phase of mine (though I'm still a christian, just one that supports LGBTQ+), though I am still a bit afraid to be open about my sexuality because of all of the crap that I had gone through.

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  36. Oh my Giddyodd! I can't believe I came across this video! Our family recently moved from the States to New Zealand. With the, what turned out to be an untrue idea, that NZ was very LGBTQ+ friendly. I understand that Auckland and the other bigger cities may be better about it, but where we ended up living is not at all "friendly".

    Not only that but NZ has very little mental healthcare. Suicide is so high here, I wonder why…None of it is easy or helpful… It cost my trans child $500 to see a psychiatrist in order for them to go on T. It's out of reach for most people. We, their parents, had to pay for it. There is a DHB scheme for therapy which you can get a few sessions a year with a therapist for 15 minutes!! What, please tell me, can you possibly get from 15 mins?
    My child and their fiancee are both depressed and have no where to turn to…I identify as Bisexual so I'm in the community as well. I too was desperately needing therapy and ended up seeing my therapist from the States. Which was much less expensive.
    This is just awful…a country like NZ which comes across as a very forward thinking place. Sadly isn't.
    My child is about to travel to Australia to have top surgery bc there's a 20-60 year waiting list here.
    So, thank you so much for making this video, it makes me feel less crazy.

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  39. Shit hurts, I'm lonely despite having so many friends. I fear I might be alone forever. Anxiety is through the roof. I don't wanna feel this way. I don't wanna disintegrate. But I don't have a way out.

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  42. I’m a lesbian and sometimes I go through phases of accepting and loving myself and sometimes I go through phases of hating myself and thinking of myself as confused. But I am a lesbian, and I constantly remind myself that I’m normal and being a lesbian isn’t anything bad. I think not being out to my mom is causing this.

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  44. I feel extremely lucky to not have experienced very much outright homophobia/transphobia. Mostly I just get ignorance. I'm a pansexual, polyamorous, non binary, mentally disabled person who lives in Texas. It's surprising to me that I wasn't bullied for my sexuality or gender in school (I went to an extremely progressive school. There were like 3 cishet people in my class. I was bullied for my disability but that's because no one (myself included) understood that's why I acted how I did), I've never been yelled at or attacked for being LGBTQ, it's mostly just the extremely exhausting task of explaining everything to people and things like ignorant people asking for my dead name or my sex assigned at birth or assuming pansexuality and bisexuality are the same thing and some slight pushback from my mom about my gender (it really just came from ignorance though). Again, I feel extremely lucky especially living in Texas with bright green hair and like 7 piercings, but there is a very real part of me that knows my luck might not last forever. Especially when I start to medically transition. We haven't won the fight until that fear is non-existent in every person. Yeah, we've made progress. Would I have been so lucky in the 60s? No almost definitely not, but I'm still not completely safe

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  45. Why would I call cops for hate crimes if every time I've tried to tell anyone that I was hate crimed everyone tells me that's not what happened and that I'm a monster for having physically defended myself?

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