Tumblr's adult content ban dismays some users: 'It was a safe space'

Site was platform for some in LGBT community to share their struggles and triumphs

Nyx Serafino says she spent most of her life feeling like she was society's "dirty secret". A gender-fluid sex worker struggling with her identity and childhood abuse, she said: "There is absolutely nothing about me that fits in a box."

When Serafino, 28, of Las Vegas, discovered Tumblr in 2010, it wasn't the cure-all she sought.