LGBT Pride Month: Where Exactly Do I Fit?
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7/2/11
By Janet Mock
"Do I belong here?"
That's the question I often found myself asking as I attended events for Pride Month in New York City.
I'd never aligned myself with any group growing up because I didn't really fit. I was mostly okay with being the traveling square peg in a bunch of round holes. I hung with the band geeks, the gym rats, student council enthusiasts, the popular girls, the queer boys, the dorky newspaper staff.
I was everywhere, but utterly alone at the same time.
Since opening up to the world about being a transsexual woman, I've been embraced with open arms and hearts by a larger minority: the LGBT community. In the past few weeks alone, I attended Mayor Bloomberg's annual LGBT BBQ at Gracie Mansion, live-Tweeted as the New York Senate passed the marriage equality bill, cried furiously while watching The Normal Heart on Broadway and marched with the It Gets Better project in the NYC Pride Parade.
And once again I was everywhere, yet questioning where exactly did I fit.