elijah danielVerified account

i am getting soft on the tl ok;; just in the past year elijah has helped me a LOT with internalized homophobia and transphobia, even if it hasn't been direct. just him kinda,, existing and being himself as loudly as he does helps me so much. i grew up in a southern+

baptist family, which is basically to say.... a "my homophobia is justified by my religion" family. i've lived my whole life afraid of who i am and afraid of anyone around me finding out. sometimes i hate being trans and i hate being gay because i feel like i'm+

disappointing my family. i go to church and hear it preached at me that being anything other than cishet is a sin. i deal with so much internalized homophobia and transphobia almost on the daily just because of what i'm surrounded by. but seeing people like elijah, living+

their lives so openly and unapologetically, is what has gotten me through life and gotten me to a point where most of the time, i can say i'm proud of who i am. if people like him didn't exist i don't think i would even be alive to say it. just over the course of the past+