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You want to talk about stigmas?

Let's talk about stigmas, honey.

Stigma is really a powerful thing.

And the idea of what other people might think about us or what society might think about us

can hold a lot of power over people and their choices.

Being queer, we're very well-versed.

We just can't say it in stigma. We know it firsthand. Like, there's so many people that have been discriminated against for being gay, you know, sometimes having to hide yourself. And that can lead to, like, you know, crazy things. Like, not everybody could just come out. Those people are stigmatized too. Yeah. And even within our own community,

I mean, you think about the stigma surrounding like HIV.

Femm tops. Right. Right. Yeah, I get it. I definitely, I mean, stigma is sort of the residual kind of

impression that people get from an ignorant place without fully knowing the full story.

I used to deal with that.

I feel like a lot when I was first starting out in like doing drag because it's like people didn't know what that was.

And so they assumed the worst.

And they're...

Girl, I read your book.

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