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Shelby Kinnin
ENG 1201.503
Professor Dunham
23 May 2019
To some people it might seem weird but to me it is not weird at all that most if not all of
my friends and technically myself included is a part of this community. Before I found out that I
was Asexual I always joked that all my friends are gay, and I was the only straight person. Now
that I have come out to most of my friends as Ace including my very ace best friend it finally felt
like I belonged somewhere. My other very Pansexual non-binary friend now jokes about the fact
that their best friends are “Hella Ace” and that even though they really want to talk about very
sexual things they always respect us and doesn’t talk about it unless we say its ok to.
I decided to choose this topic because it seemed more lighthearted compared to my other
topic of gun control and its relation to school shootings. I decided against it because of my
personal experience in a school shooting and I knew I would not be able to write and research
about it without many panic attacks and just uncomfortable moments. Going back to the topic
that I chose, I wanted to learn more about this community because growing up I was always told
that it is terrible to be gay or just apart of this community in general. I want to know more about
the history of this group and how they have become more welcomed or attacked.
I feel like learning more about this topic will help me better understand my friends and
the people of this community. I think that this is a very interesting topic that can also be deemed
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very debatable and needs to be approached cautiously. I feel as if I might mess up and say
something that could be offensive which is not what I am wanting to do. I believe that
researching this topic might help me find out more about who I am and more about my friends
and possibly understand what they are going through. Some things that I already know about this
topic is that this community has always been under attack and has only just a couple years ago
been allowed people to marry another no matter what gender they are. I also know about some of
What I still want to know is how being apart of this community correlates to mental
health issues. I also think it was be interesting to know more about the history of the pride
parades and how it helps strengthen the community. I think I will be able to find information
about this topic by looking at biographies of people in this community and books or articles
relating to mental health and the LGBTQ+ community. I also think I will be able to find
information possibly through social media and even through some of my friends’ own personal
stories.