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10 aspects of LGBTQ identity that aren’t going anywhere

By Mike Fleming
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Whether you’re Team Queer Culture, Team Assimilation, or Team Both Worlds, check out our in-depth discussion on the erasure of queer culture, then take heart in this list of just a few aspects of who we are that ain’t going anywhere, any time soon.

1. Sex-Positivity (top photo)

 

2. Originality

 

3. Kink

 

4. Counterculture

 

5. Activism

 

6. Pride

 

7. Nerve

 

8. Showmanship

 

9. Survival Instincts

 

10. The Big Love

 

This feature appeared in Q ATLus magazine. Read the full issue online here:

Pick up each new edition of QATLus at LGBTQ and allied venues around Atlanta.

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