Twitter user @introvertgay recently posted a message about gay culture that many people in LGBTQ community can relate to. “Gay culture is being a teenager when you’re 30 because your teenage years were not yours to live,” he wrote.
Gay culture is being a teenager when you're 30 because your teenage years were not yours to live.
— Introvert Gay (@introvertgay) September 2, 2017
In 2012, the Human Rights Campaign surveyed more than 10,000 LGBT-identified youth, ages 13-17, and found that 42 percent of queer kids in America report living in a community that is “not accepting.” Ninety-two percent of them also said they “hear negative messages about being LGBT.”
In 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report that showed 34 percent of gay students are bullied on school property, 10 percent are threatened or injured with a weapon on school property, 28 percent are bullied online, and 18 percent have experienced physical dating violence.
@introvertgay explained the thought process behind his tweet (that spawned a whole “gay culture is…” meme) in a post on Medium that you can check out here.