Krystal Luciano is a queer lesbian, her pronouns are she/her and they/ them. “It does get a little isolating sometimes, I miss seeing my friends in person. I’m involved in a lot of LGBT clubs, so I’m in a bunch of group chats and it’s nice to meet up with my friends over video chat,” she said. Sobera came out to her parents in that same eighth-grade year and according to her they were accepting about it because they’re young and liberal.ĭespite the social distancing, Sobera stays connected to her community with FIU LGBTQA group chats. When he brought his partners over he would refer to them as his partners so I thought he meant business partners,” she said.
“What’s funny is that my uncle is gay, but I had no idea. “I just naturally assumed that the order of things was as a woman I would get a husband, we would get married, and then my best friend and her husband would move in and we would all raise our kids together,” she said.
Sobera began her LGBTQA journey in the eighth grade when she realized simultaneously that “being gay was a thing you can do” and that she had a crush on a classmate that was also female. “I feel like going to Pride and being in an environment where I’m surrounded by people like me would really make me feel normal for a bit.” “My high school didn’t really have a lot of LGBT kids around so it was really easy to feel isolated,” she said. Photo of Isabelle Sobera, Courtesy of Sobera.
