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As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of cultural confusion that one had to recover from again and again: that accepting your sexual identity doesn__ necessarily mean that the wider LGBT community, with its own preconceived notions of what constitutes a "valid" queer identity, will embrace you any more welcomingly than your own prejudiced kinsfolk do.

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I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,float,sail on their's, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don't believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.

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Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. __f you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look at you as someone who__ afraid.___hat__ because every time you look at me, I__ looking right back, and the only time I__ not afraid, is when I see you. And I do see you, Elena. I see everything you__e been through, from so young _ how you struggled through it; how you never let it destroy your hope and faith _ and I__ afraid of nothing."(Karl and Elena)