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Hey everyone welcome back to Teenage Therapy. I'm Gyo and today we have a really special guest James

What do you like to introduce yourself?

Hi guys, I'm James

You might have seen me on TikTok

But yes, I'm excited to be here today and talk to you guys. James. Yeah, how are you?

I'm doing pretty well. Are you I'm good. I'm excited to talk to you about this so

For all the listeners

This is part of a campaign we're doing which is called swiping safely and what it is is we're focusing on the

Exploitation of LGBTQ plus youth in online communities and how we could help facilitate safer communities

So what that means is basically trying to warrant teenagers about the dangers of being on apps like Tinder and Bumble and Grindr as a minor and

The consequences that that could come from that

So James, what do you you recently came out right? I

Did I was in December of

2020 so a couple months ago. I was in Hawaii, you know

Just figured it was time and I wanted to you know come out to my huge or like my following just I don't know if it was like a surprise to a lot of people

So I kind of saw it as like an opportunity to

To like be a wake up call for people I guess you could say

Just and just show that like you know, it's like I want to break certain stereotypes and just show that like

You know anyone can not be straight and you don't have to look a certain way, you know

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