1. How and when did you come to learn that not all people are straight or cisgender? I was in high School when I realize that not everyone was straight, I am coming from a catholic family where my father was the head of the house and where he said was the true because he was fallowing the bible. He ne did not like to talk about this things therefore we were very uneducated people about genders and preferences and to be honest I never saw a person that shows his/her preferences.
2. Where did most of the influence of your initial impressions/understanding of LGBTQ people come from? (e.g., family, friends, television, books, news, church) It came from friends, school and television. Before I had a wrong impression of LGTBQ people because again I was influence by my father which though people with different preferences sexualize were not good people, but after I started to learn in school about their life and even talking to them, I realized that they are people that have good feelings and they are not doing anything wrong to anybody, I started to understanding them
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Who is the first gay or lesbian character (TV, Film, Book, etc) you experienced? What was the portrayal like? (e.g., healthy, accurate, exaggerated, negative) When I was in high school there was a music teacher that behave very feminine and no one wanted to talk about his preferences, but he was very nice and very good teacher that I did not see him as different person as I just saw on him a good person and an excellent teacher that care about his students, he wanted us to learn and be successful.
4. Were your first impressions of LGBTQ people mostly positive, mostly negative, or
Something else? My first impression about LGBTQ was negative because I thought they were different people than us and they wanted to be that way to be rebellion or something , I was very uneducated person about this subject, now I am so happy that I learned and I think different and I see them as people who deserve our