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Everyone has their own unique sexual identities and a lot of them aren’t straight. Our mums, dads, teachers, friends, classmates and neighbours all have a sexuality. By Annie Hooper(From Minus18’s OMG My Friend’s Queer) Sure, for some people this sexual identity is ‘straight’, but for a lot of people, they’re same sex attracted. How many […]

I consider myself pretty lucky. Throughout my life, I’ve encountered many people, both in and out of the queer community, who struggle to understand themselves. But I’m not here to talk about that now, I’m here to share a bit of my life. I know how self-centred of me, but it’s the only story I

We supported our daughter by following her lead and finding as much information as we could about affirming her gender. For her it was about giving her the opportunity to wear the clothes she felt expressed her identity, to grow out her hair, and later to change her name and pronouns. We have accessed some

I started questioning my sexuality from a relatively early age, and in hind‑sight I think I was absolutely terrified of being gay and constantly willed myself to not like other girls. I developed my first crush on a girl when I was in year 8, although I didn’t know it at the time as I

My best friend in year 9 & 10 was gay, only I didn’t know it at the time, and I never really talked to him about his sexuality either. It just didn’t seem to come up in conversation. Daniel* and I were pretty close, we spent most of our time hanging out on weekends together,

The idea of being straight wasn’t something which really ever occurred to me. Ever since I first learnt about relationships, about boyfriends and girlfriends, I knew that I was never going to only like boys. As a young teenager, I tried on different labels. First among these was bisexual, as I didn’t have a preference