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Why I hate the word “lesbian”

“It carries a weight of identity that I’m uncomfor table bearing”

I came out when I was at university and, being a newly minted member of the LGBTQI community, I sought out my spaces, my peers. There were several gay pubs in the city centre, almost exclusively full of men, and then there was the one lesbian

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