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Weekly Prompt #3: What helped you understand and accept your sexuality/gender identity
by ASilentObserver
Last post
 August 31st
...See more Hi everyone, I hope you are all well. Last time we discussed, What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self? [https://www.7cups.com/forum/LGBTQMOGIISupport_58/DiscussionsandResources_2305/WeeklyPrompt2Whatoneadvicewouldyougivetoyouryoungerself_302416/] In today's prompt, I want us to take a minute of reflection and share what was the journey of coming out looked like for you. The prompt: What helped you understand and accept your sexuality/gender identity? What was that journey like for you? Share your thoughts with us. Join us in the LGBTQ Support Chat today! [https://www.7cups.com/chat/?c=mmRpeXyVlOJO42uXVVyYhttps://www.7cups.com/connect/groupChatrooms.php] [https://www.7cups.com/chat/?c=mmRpeXyVlOJO42uXVVyY] ------------------------- [https://twitter.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.7cups.com%2Fforum%2FLGBTQMOGIISupport_58%2FDiscussionsandResources_2305%2FWeeklyPrompt2Whatoneadvicewouldyougivetoyouryoungerself_302416%2F&text=Weekly+Prompt+%232%3A+W+%407cups] [/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.7cups.com%2Fforum%2FLGBTQMOGIISupport_58%2FDiscussionsandResources_2305%2FWeeklyPrompt2Whatoneadvicewouldyougivetoyouryoungerself_302416%2F]
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Brand New LGBTQ+ SC Taglist
by Tazzie
Last post
 June 24th
...See more This thread controls an auto-updating taglist. To see the current list, go to Brand New LGBTQ+ SC Taglist [https://rarelycharlie.github.io/taglist?d17cde0a21c5d3b86fca178bd4197012]. To add yourself to this taglist, press the Post to Thread button above and write the exact words Please add me. To remove yourself from this taglist, press the Post to Thread button above and write the exact words, Please remove me. 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7 Cups Honors Pride 2025: 24/7 Support & "Living Beyond a Label"
by Heather225
Last post
 March 19th
...See more June is Pride Month, and at 7 Cups, we believe in fostering a community of acceptance, understanding, and inclusivity. To commemorate this important month, we are thrilled to announce two special initiatives! 🏳️‍🌈 Our LGBTQ+ Room is Opening 24/7 for Pride! Throughout June, our dedicated LGBTQ+ support room will be open around the clock. This means continuous access to a safe, supportive, and celebratory space for our LGBTQ+ members and allies. Connect with peers, share your experiences, find comfort, and celebrate your authentic self, whenever you need it. 🏳️‍🌈  Join Us for 30 Days of Pride: Living Beyond a Label We'll also be launching "30 Days of Pride" event series (hosted by our well-known LGBTQ+ advocate and representative @EmotionsListener), centered around the powerful theme: Living Beyond a Label. Look forward to daily prompts and discussions to educate, encourage reflection and sharing, as well as opportunities to connect with others who are navigating similar paths. We invite all members of the 7 Cups community to participate, learn, and grow with us throughout Pride Month. Stay tuned for daily updates and prompts within the LGBTQ+ room and within the forum (be sure to click the +Join button to be a part of the LGBTQ+ forum). Happy Pride Month, 7 Cups family!
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Looking for supportive lgbtq+ friends
by turquoiseGrapes3289
Last post
 August 13th
...See more Hi everyone, i’m new here, i’m looking for queer friends who i can talk to and i’m also willing to listen to whatever you have to say so we can just vent to one another, chat, have fun, and so on! if anybody’s interested comment down below! < 3
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Depressed
by helpfulCar4423
Last post
 August 5th
...See more Hello
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Purpose Over Pleasure: What Almost Cost Me My Family
by CradleDuck
Last post
 July 24th
...See more I want to share one of the hardest lessons I've ever learned in the hope that it helps someone else avoid making the same mistake. I'm a bisexual man married to an incredible woman that I love deeply. She has known about my bisexuality for years, and over the years we've had on-and-off conversations about the possibility of opening our relationship. Recently those conversations became much more serious, and I genuinely believed we had reached an agreement. I was wrong. Looking back, I confused talking about something with both of us being emotionally ready for it. Those are not the same thing. The decision I made caused an incredible amount of pain to the woman I love and nearly cost me my family. That realization has been devastating. One of the biggest things I've learned is that purpose has to come before pleasure. For me, my purpose is my family. My wife and my daughter mean more to me than any sexual experience ever could. My wife accepts me for who I am. She accepts that I'm bisexual. Right now, the boundary we're both comfortable with is keeping our marriage between us, and if I need to express that part of my sexuality, using a strap-on or *** instead of involving another person. If that's what our marriage needs permanently, I'm okay with that, because protecting the family we've built matters more to me than chasing another experience. If you're thinking about opening your marriage, slow down. Keep talking. Make sure you're both genuinely ready before either of you acts. If I could go back, I wouldn't act at all. No moment of pleasure was worth risking the years of love, trust, respect, memories, and the family we built together. For me, the cost was simply too high. I learned the hard way that some experiences can last minutes or hours, but the consequences can last a lifetime. My purpose is my family, and if I had truly kept that at the center of my decisions, I never would have put my marriage and family at risk. I still have a lot of healing and rebuilding to do, but I'm committed to becoming a better husband, a better father, and a better man. I hope sharing what I've learned helps someone else protect the people they love before it's too late.
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Bisexual or Lesbian Rant
by DiscoveringMe26
Last post
 July 16th
...See more Why are women always on back burner instead of front when dealing with sexuality and private time with my partner?  I am married to my husband, but I have always been attracted to women too. My first kiss and intimate experiences were with woman. However, I have been intimate with men and women. I enjoy both, but as I am getting older, I am finding that I think about women so much more often and my attraction towards them is really strong. When I’m intimate with my husband, it’s like the only thing that can get me to that point is thinking about women. The part that frustrates me the most of navigating my sexuality is that I don’t understand why I always hit a wall with women. It’s like I want to pursue them so badly but then something stops me. I love my husband, I do, but it has always felt like something was missing. I married him for a reason, but I don’t know what’s going on with my mind.
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transgender FtM
by Briann315
Last post
 July 4th
...See more I think most goes through this.. But are there others like me who are lonely and looking for friends..? I'm 15 an it's been so hard finding people around me to make friends with.  So I was wondering if anyone wanted to create a friendship with me. I'm very shy.. 
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What do I do, I'm scared for the future and I don't wanna keep on hiding it. Even though I have to.
by aquaCake8698
Last post
 June 21st
...See more Hello. I'm not really sure what I'm doing here on this site. I'm just kind of scared for everything. My parents don't support LGBTQ+ at all.  My mother just yesterday told me that she supported a friend who discomunicated with her child because she came out as lesbian. My mother often tells me stuff like this and it's starting to really agitate me ngl. She just recently took me aside to ask kindly if I was gay. She wanted to know this so that if I was she could "fix" me (that's when she told me the story of her friend and continued to say that if I were gay it would be the most devastating thing to her). I am a closeted omnisexual and trans/agender (just queer in general, teen) and im constantly on edge because, what if she finds out? I really hate living like this.  She keeps on peer pressuring me to talk badly about others because of their looks (she does the same to my siblings but they go along with it and don't think much of it), and she constantly judges me. She claims she's a Christian but I know Christians shouldn't act like this. She the reason that some people give Christianity a bad name. I don't know what to do. Am I overreacting? She hasn't hit me yet.
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What do I do?????!!!
by tallOcean5317
Last post
 June 13th
...See more I'm a gay female and I'm extremely scared of coming out to my parents it's not that they wouldn't expect me it's just the it would make things weirder and then my mom would have to give me the "remember to hide this from your grandparents" talk because my grandparents are not expecting or gay people. I have a older sister who is gay and has a girlfriend and it's a big part of her life that she has to hide from my grandparents so what should I do?????
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how do you know
by Tashu
Last post
 June 9th
...See more how do I know if another guy is gay/bi without asking?
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Help (⁠｡⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠)
by Z4IN
Last post
 June 8th
...See more Idk what should I put in title Having a difficult time; my exams are in a week, and I'm under pressure and getting a lot of hate from Muslim homophobes, even my close friends, misgendering me or calling me slurs and names that makes me cry myself to sleep when I try to reason with them, they find me being queer and ex-muslim like and think I'm stupid and mentally ill. I felt utterly despaired. My dream was to obtain permanent residency in Canada and become financially independent for my ops, so I'm feeling like I wanna yk I can't take any of this.
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Happy Pride Month
by FriendlyRaven
Last post
 June 6th
...See more I hope everyone has an amazing, safe, and wonderful pride month is year and the years to come. I'm so proud of each and every one of you, no matter what stage of life you may be in, whether you know who you are or you're exploring yourself, or even if you're just an ally supporting us from the sidelines. You're all doing amazing, and you deserve to be here and have your voice heard. I hope you spend your Pride month full of love, surrounded by your favorite people, no matter what form those relationships are: family, friends, partners, something in between, or even your pets! We all deserve unconditional love, no matter what form it takes. If you want to chat with someone about what you may be going through, please don't hesitate to reach out for support :)
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LGBTQ+ Chat!!!!
by ambitiousPal4553
Last post
 June 1st
...See more Heyyyyy guys this is a place where you can express yourself! You can talk about anything (Yes relationsips are aloud on here) Anyways I hope you guys enjoy this.  Talk to you all later!!!! :3
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Help me
by tallOcean5317
Last post
 May 27th
...See more I I'm a gay female and I'm in love with my butifull best friend who is asexual and I don't know what to do so please help me 

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Welcome to LGBTQ+/MOGII Support! We are so pleased that you have found our little rainbow here in the 7 cups forums. Our community is here to support you as an LGBTQ+/MOGII person, family member, friend and/or ally. Whether you are curious and questioning, or out and proud, and all the stages in between, this is a place where you can find support in being who you are and coping with the challenges that come with it. We strive to keep this a safe space for all. Here you can discuss anything and everything related to the LGBTQ+/MOGII community and being LGBTQ+/MOGII.


What are the different forum topics for LGBTQ+/MOGII Support?

Asexual Umbrella Support: Got a question or want to share more about asexuality? Explore more here!

Checking in and breaking the ice: A place for you to introduce yourself, take part in our community check-ins and get to know other community members by participating in fun games!

Community & Culture: Want to know more about the LGBTQ+/MOGII community and cultural contributions? This is the place to learn more!

Discussions and Resources: Want to participate in meaningful discussions and access additional resources? Join in here!

Gay Support: Got a question or want to share more about being gay? Uncover more here!

Gender Identity Support: Questioning your gender identity? Want to share your experiences? Discuss it here!

Intersex Support: Got a question or want to share more about being intersex? Learn more here!

LGBTQ+ General Support:  Struggling with other issues as an LGBTQ+/MOGII person? Working to cope with issues impacting the wider LGBTQ+/MOGII community? Find more support here! 

Lesbian Support: Got a question or want to share more about being a lesbian? Share your experiences here!

Multisexual Umbrella Support: Got a question or want to share more about multisexuality? Discuss more here!

Questioning & Coming Out: Are you questioning? Thinking about coming out? Maybe you already have? Share your struggles and stories here!


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You can help us by simply responding to threads and sharing your story (if you're comfortable to). Alternatively, you may wish to join us as a Forum Leader. Check out this thread for more information. Even just participating in events, check-ins and group chats can be a great way to help build and support the community!


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4) Please respect each other's gender, pronouns, sexual orientation, identities in general!

 

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1. Abuse, Violence, Discrimination & Safety

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2. Allies, Families & Friends

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3. Asexual & Aromantic Spectrum

(Resources, guides and websites, finding your identity, gray-asexuality and demisexuality)

4. Coming Out

(Resources for you before, while and after coming out)

5. Emergency & Crisis Resources

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6. Gender Expression

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7. Gender Identity

(Understanding and finding gender and gender identity, gender terminology and glossaries)

8. Health, Dysphoria & Transitioning

(Gender Dysphoria help, transitioning resources, LGBTQ+ health information)

9. Religion

(LGBTQ+ supportive religious resources by denomination)

10. Sex Diversity & Intersex

(Understanding sex diversity and intersex, resoruces)

11. Sexual & Romantic Orientations

(Understanding attraction and orientation, finding and accepting your identity, gay, lesbian, bi, pan resources)

12. Workplace & Education

(Being LGBTQ+, coming out at and seeking work, university or school)

13. Trans Resources

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