For many of those who grew up on the internet, the world wide web offered access to a community that may not have been reachable offline. On Tumblr, where users are twice as likely to be lesbian, gay or another sexuality, these connections proved vital to navigating and surviving the mental health struggles that nearly three-fourths of LGBTQ Generation Z users reported in a recent survey. If you were on Tumblr in its heyday — or still are today — you can skip ahead. For those who weren’t, the microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007 was popularized in the 2010s by teen and college-age users sharing everything from their OTP (One True Pairing) to their deepest and darkest secrets (think a diary, but online and with multimedia).READ MORE LGBTQ+ STORIES FROM CHANGING AMERICATENNESSEE PASSES BILL REQUIRING BUSINESSES TO POST SIGNS SAYING THEY ALLOW TRANS PEOPLE TO USE THEIR BATHROOMSFLORIDA’S NEW BAN ON TRANSGENDER STUDENTS IN SPORTS WOULD ALLOW SCHOOLS TO SUBJECT MINORS TO GENITAL INSPECTIONSNCAA BACKS TRANSGENDER ATHLETES, SAYS IT WON’T HOLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AT PLACES THAT AREN’T ‘FREE OF DISCRIMINATION’NEW NC BILL WOULD REQUIRE SCHOOLS TO TELL PARENTS IF A CHILD ‘EXHIBITS GENDER NONCONFORMITY’Almost half of 1,000 LGBTQ Gen…
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