My best friend and I are both queer women but from very different family backgrounds — hers is accepting and mine still doesn't know — and lately our friendship feels strained because she doesn't understand why I can't just 'be myself' and I feel like she's judging choices she's never had to make.
More people experience this than they realize.
The privilege of acceptance can create invisible distance between friends who share identity but not circumstance.
“Where Are You with Gender and Love Across Cultures?”
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