(For how i crafted these quotes, see What i changed in survey-takers' responses and What i didn't change.)
Asian
"Being both queer and Asian, I feel a lot of pressure to hide my identity, both within and outside of my community. I'm fortunate to have relatively accepting parents, but my other relatives (aunts, uncles, grandparents) hold much more 'traditional' values and could very likely disown us if they found out. But even within the queer community, my race has often led to unwelcome experiences--especially having my relationships labeled as 'yuri', back when I still identified as female, or being otherwise fetishized."
"I would be happy to find other older people who are also trans like me because they are more likely to understand what I might be going through. However, finding someone who's genderfluid might be hard because there's not a lotta people like me and also Asian."
"I am queer and Chinese. I was adopted by two white parents when I was one year old. It is a lot to process and I find those with shared experiences can understand on a level that no other person can."
"It's easier to talk about Vietnamese culture and my queer identity with other accepting Vietnamese friends or adults and it's definitely easier if they're queer. They understand how cultural expectations play a role better than people who aren't Vietnamese and are able to support me better."
Black/ African American
"It would be easier for me to talk to an older Black queer person because they would understand and can share similar experiences."
Latine/x/o/a, Mexican, Hispanic
"Being Mexican and queer is really hard because of the Mexican norms and the machista views."
"i havent found a hispanic, demisexual bisexual adult so i wouldnt know if they'd be easier to talk to than adults who don't share all those identities with me."
"It’s harder to meet people like me, a Hispanic lesbian."
"My genderfluid and pansexual identity adds more pressure because of traditional belief, i am Hispanic and my whole family is Mexican they have the mindset of Mexico which isn't as welcoming to the queer and trans community with the older generation. But in these recent years they've been better. My mom is the only one in my family that I have come out to and I love her with my whole heart because even if she doesn't really understand my identity, she doesn't judge me or puts me in a stereotypical group."
"I am Latinx, this has resulted in me, after realizing I was gender nonconforming, struggling relating to the latino community and losing some of that identity as for me Latinx feels like the wrong term and I often find myself using Latine or Latino as Latinx is often criticized by the community as some thing that betrays oral tradition. This has caused me to reconsider both my experience of gender in a highly gendered language and in relation to my other identities."
"im a mixed latino (mexican dominican) nonbinary lesbian, i constantly feel like i dont belong anywhere, and yet thats all the more reason to realize 'hey, i can literally fit in everywhere.' "
Multiracial
Multiracial
"As a multiracial trans person I'd say that I'd rather confide to a POC and also trans."
"Okay so I'm mixed race and it saddens me that there is racism within the community as we should be united but instead we're kinda not."
