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A lot of discrimination in society towards members of the LGBTQ+ community, something simple as pronouns can go a long way to promote inclusivity.
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A Poem: Pride and Pronouns

Love is Love, it is beautiful and kind
it is rare and lovely and oh so hard to find
So embrace love for the beauty that it is
It was never a matter of religion never “it is not my word it is His”
Because perhaps “Adam and Eve not Steve” is the message you propagate
But where did it say in the Bhagawad or the Bible to hate
I may not be a priest and I’m definitely not a pope
But I believe in love and I believe in faith and hope
You shouldn’t have to think, you shouldn’t have to say
To a person of the LGBTQ+ community that to be gay is okay
Because it is not just “okay” it is wonderful and beautiful and you
To be lesbian or gay or pan or trans above all to yourself to be true
Whether you are bi or asexual to be yourself is never wrong
Your gender does not define you, you are who you’ve been all along
Society is inured to this curse of homophobia
To push people into closets, to have such akasia
So before you tsk or chide, before you decide to frown
Remember that people are defined by their actions, not their pronoun.
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Nikhita Makam, author of '14 works by a 14-year-old', calls herself a 'high school student by day, poet by night'. Her hobbies range from gardening to app developing to staring out the window hoping to be a ladybug. She is also an interviewer with The Teen Pop and has conducted interview with several figures