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Gay and lesbian
bisexual and transgender
it feels like their all boxes
in categories that you have to fit into
and they can't change.
When I learned about being two spirit
it felt more natural to me
it felt like it acknowledged more than the surface
of somebody's identity.
I feel like it encompasses also a way of 
carrying yourself in the world.
What was working before colonization
is this practice of passing on of, you know
stories that allowed for people to learn
about each other to appreciate each other
and to live in a way that everyone
felt like they were safe and belonged.
For me personally, I wasn't you know,
loud and proud.
I was very subdued about it and
never really came out
until I left to the city
but when I came back, you know,
I'm okay with myself.
At one point gay and lesbians were revered
in Navajo culture, it's just that the
influence of Christianity really
skewed that view of homosexuality.
It's a sacredness.
Growing up here in the Bay Area 
I saw other LGBT kids
and I couldn't relate to them
well like I wanted to
but I didn't know how.
But when I started going to Native
boarding schools and I saw two spirits
and I was like, "yeah, okay, I get it now...
"...that's where I belong, that's my place."
So I started to come out.
I didn't know that I could be an athlete.
I didn't know I could be an intellectual.
I didn't know that I could...
...embrace all the good things that I
knew about me.
So my confidence level, it just started to peak.
Young people who are just exploring
who they are
I want you to remember that there are
some tribes out there that
didn't even call you a specific gender
until you decided what that is.
I want you to know that your empowered
and that anything that you may go through
you can overcome, you have the 
strength and that your valuable
and that you belong here.
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