Hayley Kiyoko asserts that people should not be ashamed of their identity and that representation is crucial for validation.

“I think I'm on board with you like having a movie where it's like no, it's not shameful to be yourself.”

Chris Appleton believes that his identity as a gay man was not something he was fully aware of or able to accept as a child due to shame and the societal pressure to hide it.

“I came out at 26 and a lot of people said to me, "Oh, you must have already known like and just hid it." And I wasn't aware that I did know. Being a gay child, I learned to hide myself.”

The author dislikes the label 'queer' because he finds it an unspecific, imposed, and repetitive rebranding of his identity.

“One, it doesn't tell me anything, right? And two, it's the third time in my life I've been rebranded. And it just it's it'll happen to you, too, when you get older. Like, people keep changing your name and nobody asks you. No one ever asks your opinion.”

The host believes that the ever-expanding acronyms for LGBTQ+ identities are aesthetically and practically problematic.

“at some point it's We're allowed to have sort of aesthetic judgments. Like, I'm sorry, but that's that's stupid. It is stupid to go around saying so many letters in a row, and to keep adding new letters to it. It's just it's aesthetically unpleasing.”

Trisha Paytas feels she is on the spectrum of various LGBTQ+ identities.

“to be honest I really believe everyone can celebrate pride because I think we're all a little bit on some sort of spectrum asexual pansexual transsexual gay bi lesbian like I feel like we're a little bit on the spectrum”