Do you feel like you belong in the LGBT community?

what makes you think you don't belong ?

 

I don't feel like I belong either. But hey, everyone's an oddball at some point.

 

That dosent mean you don't belong, maybe you just aren't social

Or maybe like me you feel like you don't belong anywhere

 

I am becoming more involved all the time. Not just on here either.

But part of the thing I noticed is that it's not so much being a community as much as associating with like minded people.

I don't view it as an us vs. them deal.

 

I just want more friends,
but I have social anxiety that keeps me isolated,
I have been trying to overcome it, yet some times I have no idea what to say to people.
I want more people to hang out with, but I get scared off easily, and am not a partier or the kind of person who goes to bars,
I don't go to church much because I am not a typical Christian as my beliefs are far outside of what most believe.
I try to open up but end up freezing up and getting scared.
So times I will go out of my way to avoid people.

 

I feel like I belong I just want a girlfriend tired of being alone 7years is a long time to be alone

 

Everything that you just wrote, apart from the christian part, describes me word for word...are you stealing my thoughts

I don't belong at all, i just know that for a fact - I've always been a 'misfit' (other peoples words not mine). I don't feel like there really is a 'community', not where i am anyway. Maybe there is but oh well.

 

So you have to be stereotypical to fit into any group?

Everyone is different and being LGBT is only one facet of who you are.

 

Sometimes I just dont know, I am not a "stereotypical" gay which is fine, but some other gay folks are a just a little befuddled in my interests sometimes lol which is all good. Though there are some who I share interests with so its all good. I've found the LGBT community is more or less as diverse as the mainstream community

 

Nothing wrong with not being sure of your sexuality. And there is NOTHING embarrassing about being bi ^_^ also I'm not political, also kinda nerdy. Everyone's awkward in some way

 

I feel like I belong here on EC, but GSA groups make me nervous. I've never tried it before, but maybe in college.

 

I feel like I belong 100%. I'm becoming an even bigger public advocate for LGBT rights than I was before, and I feel like I belong because there are so many people who can relate to me as well.

 

And do not get wrong in the fact that even though I may not "always" feel like I belong in the traditional LGBT community, I have become very vocal about LGBT rights since I've come out

 

I'm not the stereotypical lesbian and I think I belong and so what if your questioning if your bi bisexual people make the B in LGBT so you belong no matter what you are or what you will be we're a family

 

In the community, I'm usually on the fringes of it. My campus Pride group has been a bit corrupt this year. So, Ive been going just enough to have voting privileges. I have a lot of friends that I meet there, and then we usually go and do other things after. I generally just try to stay as much out of the drama as possible.

Here, when I first joined a way long time ago (aka almost 3 years) I didn't feel like I belonged. With time though, I began to feel like I belonged here. I think that was because I became more comfortable with being a member of the GSM.

 

Well, I only recently came to accept myself, so I'm new to all this. However the majority of my friends are either gay or accepting of the LGBT community so I feel included because of that. Me and my friends who identify as LGBT are so alike and I'm meeting new people at college everyday who identify as LGBT so I think I'm beginning to feel like I belong.

Join the club! I've been with boys before. Now that I've accepted that I'm bi I just want a girl.

 

I did read that you are a self proclaimed nerd but not a stereotypical one. Also that was sarcasm in my original question.

So the point is you don't need to define your relationship to an entity based on another person's relationship with it.

I'm working at fitting into it better myself to be honest right now.