Since it’s Pride month and we celebrate Pride this week on VP the Blogger Team have interviewed some people from Virtual Popstar is a part of the LGBTQ+ community. Enjoy and read through the whole interview to receive a gift at the end of the blog article!

Bowie:

Which sexual orientation do you have?
i've identified as bisexual a lot in the past but then later i settled for being a big ol lesbian

How did you figure out that you were that?
as soon as i started learning about different sexualities and such i've always known that i wasn't straight and that wasn't really something i had to realize ya know, but even then i was trying to figure out what i wanted to label myself as. i switched between pansexual and bisexual for a while until i realized that i honestly couldn't see myself in a relationship with a man
so i just thought u know what ... i'm gay as hell

Have you opened up and come out to your friends and family?
i haven't like "officially" come out to my family but if anyone would happen to ask about it i'd tell them. ok maybe not like "aye i'm a lesbian i love me sum girls" because i'm not super close to them but if anyone asked me if i'm straight i'd deny that shit so fast
and i'm pretty sure my friends already know since i mention how gay i am a few times a day

Any tips you want to give to other people in the LGBTQ+ community?
just.. don't worry about having to label yourself and figuring yourself out early on in life. a lot of people take a long time to really know themselves. experimenting with labels, pronouns etc is rly cool and if your identity ever changes that doesn't mean you've ever lied about it in the past.
coming out is not something u have to do and if u don't feel the need to do so/don't feel safe doing it, u shouldn't ever pressure yourself into doing it.


Anonymous

Which sexual orientation do you have?
I'm a gay boy, so homosexual I'd say!!

What is your gender identity?
I'm a trans boy!

How did you figure out that you were that?
Ah, it didn't take long. I mean, as I was raised in a heteronormative society, and viewed as a woman, I was led towards it from the very beginning. It was first when I realized that I was trans that I also came to terms with who I was and who I loved, and things started falling into place. Before I understood myself I felt lost and I didn't get how love could ever fit into my identity. But then!! Oh!! It was a process, I'll admit, but no matter how much I tried to avoid it, it always came back to me, a boy, loving other boys. It's so hard to explain!!!

Have you opened up and come out to your friends and family?
No... I don't feel comfortable doing that, even if I know they wouldn't react in a negative way. I've only been brave enough to be myself online where I don't have to worry about people's opinions as much. The people closest to me that aren't in my family, such as my boyfriend, know of course cause I think it's important that those I give my entire heart to also know who I truly am.

Any tips you want to give to other people in the LGBTQ+ community?
I don't know... I think it's important to take some time and learn yourself before you rush into things! There are people who feel like they have to get into relationships to feel like they are someone, like they are part of the community, and that's not true... Just listen to yourself and do as your heart tells you to. There will always be people who love you!!



Shadowjess

Which sexual orientation do you have?
I'm Bisexual, but more preferable to women.

What is your gender identity? (If cis skip this question)
I identify myself as female.


How did you figure out that you were that?
As person as it sounds I kinda..decided. I had gone many years thinking 'maybe I'm just not meant to love' and then next thing I knew I started to grow an attraction to women. It was really out of the blue, but out of that blueness became a now 7 year lesbian relationship.


Have you opened up and come out to your friends and family?
Yes, my family and friends know. At the time I was in late high school and when the news got around and at one point I was nearly chased out of school by a bunch of boys in my year. It was terrifying, but my closest friends became my best allies. As for my parents, they didn't seem to fussed. They are rather laid back coming from a biker background to the point  I didn't need to tell them that I was with Claire (Draizor007), they just guessed!


Any tips you want to give to other people in the LGBTQ+ community?
I think the best advise, would be not to be afraid. It's terrifying to think what people may think of you. I spent 6 years of my relationship hiding it from my Grandmother as she is Catholic. Be proud to be who you are and love yourself for it.

Alwin

Which sexual orientation do you have?
I'm a panromantic asexual

What is your gender identity?
Pangender

How did you figure out that you were that?
I was really unsure of my sexuality, and so I looked a lot at the different sexualities there are to try to find where I fit in the most. In The beginning I just identified as a pansexual, but then I figured out that I am most likely only panromantic, and instead asexual.
Me being pangender was actually something I figured out not that long ago. Before that I was identifying myself as bigender, or just gender queer since I didn't really feel like bigender fit me. When I found out there was something called pangender and read what it was, I felt I related to that much more than what being bigender meant.

Have you opened up and come out to your friends and family?
I am open/out to friends that follow me on my private instagram. It's not really that I wouldn't have a problem with telling people what I am if they ask, I just don't tell people if they don't. All of those who know are completely okay with it.
I am however a bit scared of coming out to my family, since my brother doesn't really "believe" in all this stuff. He think there are three sexualities only; hetero, homo and bi. I do think he'd be okay with a sexuality though if he heard what it was.
He also doesn't think there are more than two genders, and says that those who identify as something nonbinary are stupid.

Any tips you want to give to other people in the LGBTQ+ community?
I would probably say that one should not hesitate on coming out if you don't live in an environment where coming out could be dangerous to you. I don't really live in that kind of environment, but I am afraid my brother will refuse to talk to me if I tell him, and I would not be able to take that.
Health, both physical and mental, goes first.

Thanks to all the people who participated in this interview it was really nice to take part of your stories and I think a lot of people in the LGBTQ+ community can recognise a lot of the stuff you all talks about. Do you have any advice you would want to give to other people in the LGBTQ+ community? Write your advice in the comments and let us all take a part of it and maybe learn something new!

As a end of this blog article we thought we should be nice to you all and give everybody some nice new stuff to their wardrobe! Thanks to @Alaska for making these designs!

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Female code: hearts!notparts
Male code: p4nsexualprideMALE