Personal Narrative-LGBT + Students In Middle School

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When I was in sixth grade, the best way I could imagine coming out was by using a chemistry pun. (I still stand by that choice, to defuse tension and take a step behind the comfortable shield of my academics- but unfortunately, we hadn’t had our chemistry class by that point, so the girl I was talking to had no idea why 83 electrons were at all significant.) but I was lucky- once I used the B-word, I got the same thing said back to me. Thus began my fledgling niche as the leader of my little group of LGBT+ kids at my middle school. While life carried on and our friend group had shifted and reconstructed, I haven't forgotten what I felt being in such a precious and valuable place to people like me. I adored being able to positively influence

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