Gender Panel

This week in sociology we had four students come in and talk about what it's like to be LGBTQ. Each student told us their story on how they came to realizing what exactly that meant. It was very interesting hearing their stories, and it takes a lot of courage to talk about the hard times in their life in front of strangers. I learned some things that I didn't know before. I learned what gender queer is and that is when they are not quite sure where they stand. One student made the comment that when they tell their parents they are LGBTQ it's like the death of a child. They had this image of what their child would be and they ended up being different then they expected. I'm really glad they came in to talk to us about their experiences and it gave me a new outlook on what some people go through.