Des, 17 (Kansas City, MO)

“I'm in Art and out of 33 students in that class around like 25 maybe closer to 30 identify with LGBTQ as bisexual or gay. And it sounds so weird but like that they have a whole big group of friends that always just talk about stuff and you know how they're doing. Cracking gay jokes and stuff like that and it's it's really weird for me being asexual because it's not really viewed as proper for me to make like gay jokes and stuff. And it's rare because I have friends in the group but it's like I feel like I can't just be a part of it and it'd be too, I guess, unacceptable for me to be in. So if that sounds weird but I don't know.”