Hello again, beautiful beings of light, and welcome back to another expand podcast episode

with yours truly Elizabeth April. Today, I want to talk about being fluid and maybe some of the stigma around being gay. So for those of you

who are maybe new to my content or my channel, you might think that I have been gay my whole

life and that's just not the case. As a matter of fact, I have been with men my whole life until I met, I guess, the right woman.

I never thought of myself as being gay, but I also never still to this day identify with those kind of labels. So I really want to talk about

labels specifically in this community. And overall, whether you're in the community or you're not

or you've never even really thought about it, I want to bring a couple of other dimensions

to this concept to mind.

The biggest thing that makes me feel uncomfortable about the gay community is the amount of labels

that we need to have in order to identify who you feel you need to be or who you feel you are. And I understand

that whatever community we are talking about, as long as they're a minority, the labels have been

important in the past in order to get equal rights. So I 100% understand why

labeling and labels came about in the first place. Because in order to allow everyone to be on the

same level, the same page, especially the same pay bracket, and even the ability to give

blood or vote. We need to recognize everyone as an equal. But I can't help to think that the more

labels we have, the less equal we really feel, right? So if someone came up to me and said,

well, who are you? Am I supposed to say, well, I identify as she, her, and I'm, I don't even know

what all the things are. I'm a Caucasian, millennial, female, who identifies as being fluid or non-binary or a lesbian or bisexual or gay or straight.

But, you know, I love riding motorcycles on the weekend.

Like, when does it stop?

Like, I'm sorry, but why are we adding to the labels?

Why are we continuing to divide?

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