But one common thread that repeatedly came up throughout the survey process was visibility. "Being visible is necessary, and it’s so hard to be visible, because you never know if you're going to be hurt because of your queerness," Green recalls one subject telling her. "If your queerness is legible, it’s really precarious." And when there are headlines in the news about hate crimes targeting prominent queer people , this is top of mind for many individuals. "To be queer, and to constantly feel like we have to be resilient, or that we can’t let any of this news get to you — it’s impossible for that to be true," Green says. "It’s clearly hard."