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The Promise of Pride

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

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Kalamazoo Pride: The Most Gay People You've Ever Been Around?

"It just felt so good. I mean, it was so much weight off of my chest to just kind of be myself," she says. "I'm like, everybody here loves everybody. It doesn't matter and I had just gone so many years muting myself." Her older friends have accepted her but there's still an identity with them that is not fully me.

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