3.0 THEMATIC ANALYSIS

- Within the category Identity & Kinship, all data was input verbatim as individuals listed within the Facebook post. As gender and sexuality are continuously shifting and changing, many LGBTQIA2S+ individuals engage in broader, less structured ways of defining their sexual orientation or gender identities, therefore a wide range of identientities exist within the data which may overlap for individuals in unconventional ways (i.e. gender identity is identified as non-binary but sexuality is identified as lesbian).