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With time, patience, love, and support, most LGBTQ+ individuals will move into the stage of identity synthesis. In this stage they are, of course, still proud to be LGBTQ+, but it’s not everything they are about. I have a friend who says that when he was in the identity pride stage he was a Capital-G Gay professor. Now in the stage of identity synthesis, he is gay, a professor, a father, a dog owner, a basketball player, a wine enthusiast, etc. Being gay is just a part of who he is.

Is there still anger and aggression in this final stage? There certainly can be—and for good reason. However, the anger is typically more appropriately focused on people who are being disrespectful or discriminatory, not on the entire straight/cisgender population.