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When chosen family members want to change longstanding traditions

I've been going to the same Pride celebration with my chosen family for twelve years but this year they all want to go somewhere new and I feel like they're erasing our history.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Conflicting desires for continuity and growth can fracture shared meaning within chosen families.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with LGBTQ+ chosen family tradition?”

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