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 _Nathan Piland | @nathanpiland | 3.8M followers | 24 years old | He / Him_ Nathan Piland is a rap artist and content creator on TikTok.  He enjoys making people laugh in his videos, and he loves getting real and sad in his music.  Nathan expresses his individuality through his music and style and he believes everyone should celebrate their uniqueness.     **Who do you identify most with in pop culture and why?**  Donald Glover.  He is a comedian, writer, and a rapper.  I love that he does it all and I aspire to be like that.  **What's important about PRIDE to you and why?**  Because we need to be visible. There is still so much work to be done.  If people were more educated about gay people, trans people, and the whole LGBTQ+, people would stop fighting to take away our rights and there would be way less hate.  There needs to be more education about PRIDE to everyone.   **When do you feel the most invincible?** When I am performing in front of a crowd of people. **Which current injustice is important to you and why?**  Justice for Breonna Taylor.  Arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor.    **What are some things you would like to change in your local community? How come?** I wish people in LA were more authentic.  Everyone is competing with each other and sometimes people will make friends for how they can benefit one another rather than actually liking each other.  **Do you think you're still finding out who you are? What are the clues around you as to who that is?** I am still finding out more about myself.  Over quarantine, I realized I was closing myself off to certain types of expression that were not heteronormative.  I recently realized I like wearing nail polish and eyeliner and my style has gotten more flamboyant (which I am in love with), and I had pushed down the part of me that liked those things due to growing up in a world that tries to push down LGBTQ+ culture.  **What's something often misunderstood about you?** That I am always happy.  I am human and being someone that likes to make people laugh, people assume I’m always laughing, but I have my own struggles with depression and while I am happy more times than I am sad, I still get down, and that’s why I like to make people laugh, because I know how much we all need to laugh.  **Give some advice to the you of last year?** Get yourself some gay friends.