Ruben Loza 
EDINBURG – Fashion, photography, artists, and a difficult coming out experience were some of the things that Brandon Isaiah Garcia went through growing up.
Brandon Isaiah Garcia, Theatre Performance major at UTRGV said that coming out to his parents at a late age in his life was not as devastating as when he first came out to his friends at the age of 14.
“I was really emotional maybe not in the sense I was telling them who I was, but I was also telling myself who I was,” said Garcia.
Garcia said he identifies himself with artists who are outspoken like Kanye West, Grimes, Azealia Banks, and Taylor Swift, but there is one song that has truly had an impact in his life.
“A Taylor Swift song that I really love is Wildest Dreams. Someone telling me that after putting myself out like that, to risk myself, to say hey, I like you, and I’m gay, and I’m in the coming out process, and I’m telling you I like you and you’re telling me that you don’t like me back and you didn’t reciprocate those feelings, it made me feel as if I was invalid. That song just described that experience,” said Garcia.
Massy Muñoz, Assistant Director for the Student Unions at UTRGV said that the “United Union, we [UTRGV Student Union] get together once a year, a lot allies and resources on campus to show our support towards the LGBTQ+ community”
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