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• GLBT? LGBT? LGBTQIA+? WHAT'S A NAME?HISTORY, RILLIENCE & HOPE FOR LGBT AMERINS AFTER #ORLANDOELIZABETH DRCHER·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE NARTHEX·5 M READ·JUN 17, 2016--6LISTENSHAREIT'S TAKEN A MUTE OR TWO FOR MANY RELIG AND CIVIC LEARS TO SPEAK CLEARLY AND SUPPORTIVELY ABOUT THE ORLANDO SHOOTG AS AN ACT OF VLENT HATE THAT SPECIFILLY TARGETED LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE. MANY OF THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS — LIKE THIS OM UTAH LT. GOVERNOR SPENSOR COX — HAVE BEEN CREDIBLY POWERFUL AND MOVG, REVEALG A EP WELL OF PASSN EVEN AMONG THOSE WHOSE POLIL AND RELIG LEANGS MIGHT OTHERWISE MARK THEM AS WELL OUTSI THE CIRCLE OF STRAIGHT ALLI WHO HAVE STOOD WH LGBT FAY AND IENDS THE AFTERMATH OF THE SHOOTG.AND THIS SUPPORT HAS ALSO TGHT THAT WE STILL HAVE MUCH TO LEARN AS WE WORK TOGETHER FOR JTICE AND PEACE. HERE'S ONE THG MANY STRAIGHT ALLI NEED TO WORK ON: G THE RRECT ACRONYM TO SCRIBE THE IMPACTED MUNY. SO YOU KNOW: IT'S LGBT (WH SOME VARIATN), NOT GLBT.HERE'S WHY MATTERS THAT YOU TRY TO GET RIGHT: IF YOU ARE A RELIG OR CIVIC LEAR WHO, WHEN SPEAKG PUBLICLY ABOUT #ORLANDO, “GLBT” RATHER THAT LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, OR LGBT+, YOU ARE SAYG, ALONG WH WHATEVER ELSE YOU THK YOU'RE A SAYG, “I HAVE NO REAL UNRSTANDG OF LGBT CULTURE AND HISTORY, AND REALLY DON’T MATTER TO ME TO FD OUT MORE.” AND YOU'RE SAYG THAT BY GETTG WRONG THE ONE THG THAT PERHAPS MOST CLEARLY SAYS, "I KNOW YOU. I SEE YOU." — A NAME.THIS HISTORY OF THE ACRONYM GO BACK TO THE LAST STAED TRMA THE LGBT WORLD: THE AIDS PANMIC OF THE 1980S AND 1990S. DURG THAT TIME, AS MOST PEOPLE ARE AWARE, THOANDS OF GAY MEN AND TRANSWOMEN DIED (AS DID MANY STRAIGHT AND BISEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN). NOT ONLY WERE THE RETROVIRAL DGS THAT MAKE HIV/AIDS CHRONIC RATHER THAN FATAL NDNS TODAY NOT AVAILABLE, BUT STAED, PASSNATE RE THROUGH THE TORTURO PATH OF THE DISEASE WAS LACKG. GAY MEN THEMSELV RALLIED TO EACH OTHER’S SIS AS DID MANY STRAIGHT ALLI, PROVIDG PANNSHIP, MEALS, AND SOME MEASURE OF NURSG RE TO MANY PEOPLE WH AIDS.BUT A CENTRAL, AND LARGELY UNACKNOWLEDGED, FACTOR THE RE OF MEN WH AIDS WERE ANIZED AND MORE LOOSELY NFIGURED WORKS OF LBIANS. JOHN-MANUEL ANDRTE, THOR OF VICTORY DEFERRED: HOW AIDS CHANGED GAY LIFE AMERI (CHIGO 1999), EXPLAED THE IMPACT OF THIS G TOGETHER OF LBIANS WH GAY MEN:AIDS EXPAND THE GAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT GENERALLY AND CREATED A LEVEL OF SOLIDARY BETWEEN GAY MEN AND LBIANS THAT DIDN’T EXIST BEFORE. FROM THE EARLIT DAYS OF THE EPIMIC, LBIANS STOOD BY THEIR GAY BROTHERS — WHETHER AS RE PROVIRS FOR THE SICK OR LOBBYG WASHGTON FOR JT POLICI.AS HISTORIAN LILLIAN FARMAN TAILS, LBIANS DONATED BLOOD FOR GAY MEN THE 1980S WHEN GAY MEN THEMSELV WERE PREVENTED OM DOG SO. THEY NAVIGATED THE HEALTHRE SYSTEM, OFTEN OM WH THE GENRED NURSG SYSTEM THAT ALLOWED THEM A PARTICULAR SENSIVY TO THE MASCULIZED, HETEROSEXIST STCTUR OF MUCH MEDIL RE. THEY ANIZED TO PROVI FOOD, CLOTHG, AND HOG. WH SO MANY GAY MEN SILED BY HIV/AIDS, WOMEN WERE TOOK MORE LEARSHIP ROL LGBT MUNI, BREAKG THROUGH A PRONOUNCED GAY MALE CHVISM THAT OFTEN VEERED TO MISOGYNY, DAMPENG PARTICIPATN POST-STONEWALL ANIZG AND ACTIVISM FOR MANY LBIANS.AS THE AIDS CRISIS SELF NTRIBUTED TO AN ENDURG POLICIZATN OF THE LGBT MUNY, WOMEN BEGAN TO CHALLENGE THE MASCULIST STCTUR OF POWER WH A MUNY WHOSE VERY SURVIVAL PEND (PENDS STILL) ON NSTCTG SUCH STCTUR. AT THE SAME TIME, AS TREATMENTS FOR AIDS BEME MORE PROMISG AND MORE AVAILABLE AND AFFORDABLE, GAY MEN THEMSELV CREASGLY REGNIZED THE ROLE LBIANS HAD PLAYED MIGATG THE CRISIS. BY THE LATE 1990S, THEN, "GAY MUNY CENTERS" ACROSS THE UNTRY BEME "LBIAN AND GAY MUNY CENTERS," AND BEME MON TO SWCH THE “G” AND THE “L” STANDARD ACRONYM (AS WELL AS, OVER TIME, TO ADD THE “T”…AND THEN THE “Q”…AND SO ON).…THE GTURE OF THE ACRONYM CHANGE SPEAKS VOLUM ABOUT WHAT MAK THE LGBT MUNY SO STRONG AND RILIENT THROUGH ONGOG AND, AS WE HAVE SEEN, CREASG ATTACKS.
• THE STGGL OF BEG LGBT. (THE MENTAL HEALTH GUI)JSI ROBSON·FOLLOW8 M READ·MAR 13, 2020--LISTENSHAREGROWG UP A FAY ISN’T EASY. FOR THE MOTHER OR THE FATHER. WHEN ARE THEY EVER TLY READY FOR THE PABILI OF RAISG A KID. NOT THEM.BETTER YET, WHAT IF THE FAY WAS ALG WH THGS THAT MA HARR FOR THEM AND NFLICTED WH THGS AGAST THERE ENTIRE BELIEF? MOST OF THE TIM WE HEAR STORI ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE WHO GET KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOE OR ARE KILLED. WHAT’S THEIR STORY?SOMETIM LGBTQ PEOPLE AL WH THGS THAT AREN’T LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. TRANS PEOPLE WISH TO BE OPPOSE OF WHAT THEY ARE OM A VERY YOUNG AGE. EVERYONE ELSE JT REALIZ THEIR SIR ARE VERY DIFFERENT OM THE MAJORY OF THOSE THEY LL. CIS. A TERM ED TO SCRIBE SOMEON WHOSE STRAIGHT.WHEN I GREW UP WASN’T FOCED ON BEG SMARTER THAN EVERYONE. IT WASN’T ABOUT BEG A CLASS CLOWN. NOR WAS LATER ON BEG SOMETHG MEANGFUL TO THE PEOPLE SCHOOL. I SAT DOWN AND AVOID EVERYONE. I GOT TOLD I WAS SMART BUT I WAS AWKWARD. A THG AS A KID YOU’RE SHOWN AS BEG EHER AN OUTST OR POPULAR. WH ONE OR THE OTHER SUPPOSEDLY HAVG MEANG ON YOUR LIFE.WE IMAGE THAT KIDS HAVE EASY. YET, YOU FET THAT THEIR ENTIRE CHILDHOOD F WHO THEY BEE WHEN THEY GROW UP. ESPECIALLY WH THE MENTAL FATIGUE OF TRYG TO FIGURE OUT WHY YOU’RE SO DIFFERENT THAN EVERY CHILD YOUR CLASS. NOT TO MENTN WHEN PUBERTY HS AND YOU REALIZE. YOU DON’T LIKE AND YOU’RE HATG YOURSELF. OR BETTER YET, YOU’RE FELY ATTRACTED TO THAT CUTE GUY YOUR CLASS BUT PLOT TWISTS YOU ARE A GUY.WHAT IF YOU’RE QUEER? YOU AREN’T GAY AND YOU DON’T HATE YOUR LIFE TO THE POT THAT YOU… OH WA, YOU PROBABLY DO. WHY? BEE YOU WERE JT GETTG MA FUN OF FOR EVERYTHG THAT YOU WERE DOG. YOU JT FEEL DIFFERENT EVERY DAY BUT YOU DON’T KNOW WHY. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO FACE YOUR FEELGS AT THIS AGE.WHAT IF YOU WORE A TUX TO YOUR PROM BUT WA YOU’RE NOT A GUY ARE YOU? OR THAT ONE DAY YOU WORE A DRS TO SCHOOL AND GOT STARED AT WH YOUR FACE JT FLAMG BEE YOU DON’T HAVE THE NECSARY PARTS.MY CHILDHOOD WOULD ECHO EVERY TRANS PERSON STORY. I GREW UP WANTG TO BE A GIRL. DRS AS ONE AND POSSIBLY BE ONE. I DID THGS THAT LED TO ABE OM A SPECIFIC MEMBER OF MY FAY. WHAT DID I DO THAT WARRANTED THIS? I TOOK FEMALE CLOTHG AND WORE THEM. I ENJOYED THE ACTS OF PLAYG HOE. A GAME WHERE YOU BASILLY ACT AS THOUGH YOU ARE A MOTHER OR FATHER AND PENDG ON HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE THE GAME EQUALS THE KIDS YOU HAVE. USUALLY, HAPPENS WH A LARGER FAY. THE POT BEG? I WANTED TO BE THE MOM.SOMETIM THE KIDS JT WANT TO BE ACCEPTED AND UNRSTOOD. MOST OF THE TIME THEY DIDN’T ASK TO BE THAT WAY. THEY JT ACCEPTED THAT WAS WHO THEY WERE. NO AMOUNT OF NDNG IS GOG TO CHANGE THAT. IT’S ONLY NDNG AWAY OM THE HAPPS THEY FELT WHEN THEY WERE BEG TE TO THEMSELV.WHAT IF WE JT STOPPED QUTNG AND LOVED THEM STEAD?IT’S A QUTN I WONR ABOUT OFTEN. IF WE STOPPED CRICIZG THOSE WHO ACCEPTED WHO THEY ARE WOULD WE ACTUALLY BE HAPPY? WOULD THEY? HOW ABOUT THE WORLD AS A WHOLE?I KNOW THAT I’M HAPPIT WHEN I’M GENRFLUID WEARG WHATEVER I WANT TO FOR THAT DAY. GIRL OR GUY CLOTH I DON’T WANT TO MATTER ANYMORE THEN ALREADY DO. I DON’T WANT PEOPLE G UP TO ME AND HARASSG ME. I JT WANT TO MOVE THROUGHOUT MY DAY. GET TO WORK, BE REFERRED TO BY THE NAME I WANT, HEAD HOME, WORK ON STUFF, AND THEN SLEEP.IT’S WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DO. THEY DO THAT AND THEY AREN’T BOTHERED. THEY HAVE THE MENTAL DRA GONE OM THEM BEE ’S NOT A NCERN. INSTEAD S PROBABLY WHETHER OR NOT THEY DID SOMETHG RRECTLY. WHAT IF THE WORLD OPERATED THAT WAY? CAN ?SOMETIM THE EASIT QUTNS TO ASK ARE THE ON WE AVOID.ANOTHER QUOTE I’VE HEARD PASS RANDOMLY THROUGH QUISIVE PEOPLE. THE WORLD OPERAT TWO WAYS OM WHAT I’VE NOTICED. IT OPERAT THROUGH CURRENCY AND TECHNOLOGY.CURRENCY ALWAYS FIRST. WE WANT TO BE PAID FOR WHAT WE’VE DONE AND THEN TECHNOLOGY. THERE TO MAKE OUR LIV EASIER AND MORE NVENIENT.BUT, WHEN YOU GROW UP ISN’T WHETHER OR NOT YOU N GET THEM. IT’S ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU N MATA THE MENTAL FOC TO DO SO. IT’S ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU LOVE YOURSELF AND N PH FORWARD. IT HAS EVERYTHG TO DO WH MENTAL STATE.THE MENTAL STATE OF LGBTQ PEOPLEI’VE NOTICED THROUGHOUT MY LIFE THAT MY MENTAL HEALTH TERRAT WHENEVER I HAVE A DYSPHORIC DAY. WHAT’S DYSPHORIC? IT’S BASILLY DYSPHORIA, WHICH IS SENTIALLY BEG AT UNEASE OR HAVG A GENERAL DISSATISFACTN WH LIFE, AS FED BY GOOGLE. NOW TAKE ONE STEP AND WE GET GENR DYSPHORIA. THE UNEASE OR DISSATISFACTN WH YOUR GENR.MY MENTAL HEALTH DROPS NSIRABLY WHEN I FEEL THE EPISOS. WILL THEY END? PROBABLY NOT. WHY? BEE AT THOSE MOMENTS I’M NOT HAPPY WH MY BODY OR WHAT I SEE. IT’S ALL MENTAL AND ’S ALL VERY REAL. I HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO SIMPLY SAY. “STOP” AND BE FE AFTERWARD. TST ME, IF I ULD HAVE, I MOST FELY WOULD HAVE.BEG LGBT IS MORE THAN SIMPLY LOOKG TO THE MIRROR AND SAYG WELP GUS I’M GAY TODAY. IT’S ABOUT SLOWLY REALIZG AS YOU GROW UP THAT YOU LIKE DIFFERENT THGS THAN OTHERS YOUR AGE. OR EVEN OTHERS OF YOUR SEX. IT’S ABOUT BEG THAT OUTST OF THE GROUP. YOU GET ED TO BUT YOU EHER SAY SCREW THEM OR YOU WISH SECRETLY THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO JO.BEG GENRFLUID IS AN EXPERIENCE. PEOPLE LIKEN TO BEG TRANSGENR. BEE SOME TIM YOU WANT TO BE THE OPPOSE SEX AND OTHERS YOU’RE PERFECTLY FE WH YOUR SEX. THE ONLY THG STOPPG THEM OM BEG TRANS IS. THEY AREN’T GOG EVERY DAY FOR A LONG TIME WISHG THEY WERE THE OPPOSE SEX.BEG TRANS IS AN EXPERIENCE? WHY. BEE YOU N’T STOP THKG ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU HATE THE BODY YOU WERE BORN AND NOBODY SEEMS TO GET . THEY DON’T UNRSTAND WHY YOU LIKE THAT DRS SO MUCH. OR WHY YOU DRS GIRLY ALL THE TIME AND HATE THOSE GUYS CLOTH THAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO WEAR.EVERYTHG PEOPLE TLE LGBT IS AN EXPERIENCE. HALF THE TIME THOUGH. IT’S NOT A GOOD ONE. IT’S ONE YOU SPEND WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG. WISHG JT ONCE YOU ULD BE NORMAL. THAT YOU HAD IENDS AND LIKED THAT HOT GUY THAT WALKED BY YOU THAT ALL YOU’RE IENDS ARE FAWNG OVER.MENTAL HEALTH TERRAT WHEN PEOPLE REFE TO UNRSTAND OR ACCEPT THE REAL REASON FOR WHY THEY HAVE TO LIVE THERE LIFE.THERE’S A MANTRA THE UNED STAT THAT GO SOMETHG ALONG THE L OF. “AMERI IS ALL ABOUT EEDOM” AND THAT WE ARE “FREE”. YET, EVERY CIZEN FAILS TO REALIZE THAT WE’RE ONLY WHERE WE ARE THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF OTHERS. THAT AT ANY MOMENT THAT NORMAL LIFE LGBTQ PEOPLE CRAVE ULD FALL.IT’S NOT TO SAY WE EXIST SOLELY THE UNED STAT. IT’S THAT WE’RE GETTG KILLED HERE AND DISOWNED. IT’S THAT LIVG THE STAT HAS BEEN MY MA LIVG EXPERIENCE.GROWG UP WHEN I DID WAS BASILLY LIKE WALKG THROUGH A MEFIELD. YOU EHER SHOWED OFF AND HOPE PEOPLE LIKE YOU OR YOU HID . MOST OF THE TIME I SAW WORK FOR GAY GUYS. TRANS PEOPLE CHOSE THE SAFE OPTN OF HIDG. WHY GET MA FUN OF AT SCHOOL AND AT HOME? WHEN YOU JT ACT LIKE YOU AREN’T THE WAY YOU ARE.HOW TO FALLY UNRSTAND YOURSELF AND FIX YOUR MENTAL HEALTH.
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GLBT? LGBT? LGBTQIA+? WHAT'S A NAME?HISTORY, RILLIENCE & HOPE FOR LGBT AMERINS AFTER #ORLANDOELIZABETH DRCHER·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE NARTHEX·5 M READ·JUN 17, 2016--6LISTENSHAREIT'S TAKEN A MUTE OR TWO FOR MANY RELIG AND CIVIC LEARS TO SPEAK CLEARLY AND SUPPORTIVELY ABOUT THE ORLANDO SHOOTG AS AN ACT OF VLENT HATE THAT SPECIFILLY TARGETED LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE. MANY OF THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS — LIKE THIS OM UTAH LT. GOVERNOR SPENSOR COX — HAVE BEEN CREDIBLY POWERFUL AND MOVG, REVEALG A EP WELL OF PASSN EVEN AMONG THOSE WHOSE POLIL AND RELIG LEANGS MIGHT OTHERWISE MARK THEM AS WELL OUTSI THE CIRCLE OF STRAIGHT ALLI WHO HAVE STOOD WH LGBT FAY AND IENDS THE AFTERMATH OF THE SHOOTG.AND THIS SUPPORT HAS ALSO TGHT THAT WE STILL HAVE MUCH TO LEARN AS WE WORK TOGETHER FOR JTICE AND PEACE. HERE'S ONE THG MANY STRAIGHT ALLI NEED TO WORK ON: G THE RRECT ACRONYM TO SCRIBE THE IMPACTED MUNY. SO YOU KNOW: IT'S LGBT (WH SOME VARIATN), NOT GLBT.HERE'S WHY MATTERS THAT YOU TRY TO GET RIGHT: IF YOU ARE A RELIG OR CIVIC LEAR WHO, WHEN SPEAKG PUBLICLY ABOUT #ORLANDO, “GLBT” RATHER THAT LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, OR LGBT+, YOU ARE SAYG, ALONG WH WHATEVER ELSE YOU THK YOU'RE A SAYG, “I HAVE NO REAL UNRSTANDG OF LGBT CULTURE AND HISTORY, AND REALLY DON’T MATTER TO ME TO FD OUT MORE.” AND YOU'RE SAYG THAT BY GETTG WRONG THE ONE THG THAT PERHAPS MOST CLEARLY SAYS, "I KNOW YOU. I SEE YOU." — A NAME.THIS HISTORY OF THE ACRONYM GO BACK TO THE LAST STAED TRMA THE LGBT WORLD: THE AIDS PANMIC OF THE 1980S AND 1990S. DURG THAT TIME, AS MOST PEOPLE ARE AWARE, THOANDS OF GAY MEN AND TRANSWOMEN DIED (AS DID MANY STRAIGHT AND BISEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN). NOT ONLY WERE THE RETROVIRAL DGS THAT MAKE HIV/AIDS CHRONIC RATHER THAN FATAL NDNS TODAY NOT AVAILABLE, BUT STAED, PASSNATE RE THROUGH THE TORTURO PATH OF THE DISEASE WAS LACKG. GAY MEN THEMSELV RALLIED TO EACH OTHER’S SIS AS DID MANY STRAIGHT ALLI, PROVIDG PANNSHIP, MEALS, AND SOME MEASURE OF NURSG RE TO MANY PEOPLE WH AIDS.BUT A CENTRAL, AND LARGELY UNACKNOWLEDGED, FACTOR THE RE OF MEN WH AIDS WERE ANIZED AND MORE LOOSELY NFIGURED WORKS OF LBIANS. JOHN-MANUEL ANDRTE, THOR OF VICTORY DEFERRED: HOW AIDS CHANGED GAY LIFE AMERI (CHIGO 1999), EXPLAED THE IMPACT OF THIS G TOGETHER OF LBIANS WH GAY MEN:AIDS EXPAND THE GAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT GENERALLY AND CREATED A LEVEL OF SOLIDARY BETWEEN GAY MEN AND LBIANS THAT DIDN’T EXIST BEFORE. FROM THE EARLIT DAYS OF THE EPIMIC, LBIANS STOOD BY THEIR GAY BROTHERS — WHETHER AS RE PROVIRS FOR THE SICK OR LOBBYG WASHGTON FOR JT POLICI.AS HISTORIAN LILLIAN FARMAN TAILS, LBIANS DONATED BLOOD FOR GAY MEN THE 1980S WHEN GAY MEN THEMSELV WERE PREVENTED OM DOG SO. THEY NAVIGATED THE HEALTHRE SYSTEM, OFTEN OM WH THE GENRED NURSG SYSTEM THAT ALLOWED THEM A PARTICULAR SENSIVY TO THE MASCULIZED, HETEROSEXIST STCTUR OF MUCH MEDIL RE. THEY ANIZED TO PROVI FOOD, CLOTHG, AND HOG. WH SO MANY GAY MEN SILED BY HIV/AIDS, WOMEN WERE TOOK MORE LEARSHIP ROL LGBT MUNI, BREAKG THROUGH A PRONOUNCED GAY MALE CHVISM THAT OFTEN VEERED TO MISOGYNY, DAMPENG PARTICIPATN POST-STONEWALL ANIZG AND ACTIVISM FOR MANY LBIANS.AS THE AIDS CRISIS SELF NTRIBUTED TO AN ENDURG POLICIZATN OF THE LGBT MUNY, WOMEN BEGAN TO CHALLENGE THE MASCULIST STCTUR OF POWER WH A MUNY WHOSE VERY SURVIVAL PEND (PENDS STILL) ON NSTCTG SUCH STCTUR. AT THE SAME TIME, AS TREATMENTS FOR AIDS BEME MORE PROMISG AND MORE AVAILABLE AND AFFORDABLE, GAY MEN THEMSELV CREASGLY REGNIZED THE ROLE LBIANS HAD PLAYED MIGATG THE CRISIS. BY THE LATE 1990S, THEN, "GAY MUNY CENTERS" ACROSS THE UNTRY BEME "LBIAN AND GAY MUNY CENTERS," AND BEME MON TO SWCH THE “G” AND THE “L” STANDARD ACRONYM (AS WELL AS, OVER TIME, TO ADD THE “T”…AND THEN THE “Q”…AND SO ON).…THE GTURE OF THE ACRONYM CHANGE SPEAKS VOLUM ABOUT WHAT MAK THE LGBT MUNY SO STRONG AND RILIENT THROUGH ONGOG AND, AS WE HAVE SEEN, CREASG ATTACKS.

Why LGBT Pri Is So Personal for Me as a Gay ManIt’s Pri month, a time when San Francis and ci around the world celebrate the strength, rilience, and sheer fabulons of the LGBT muny.

THE STGGL OF BEG LGBT. (THE MENTAL HEALTH GUI)JSI ROBSON·FOLLOW8 M READ·MAR 13, 2020--LISTENSHAREGROWG UP A FAY ISN’T EASY. FOR THE MOTHER OR THE FATHER. WHEN ARE THEY EVER TLY READY FOR THE PABILI OF RAISG A KID. NOT THEM.BETTER YET, WHAT IF THE FAY WAS ALG WH THGS THAT MA HARR FOR THEM AND NFLICTED WH THGS AGAST THERE ENTIRE BELIEF? MOST OF THE TIM WE HEAR STORI ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE WHO GET KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOE OR ARE KILLED. WHAT’S THEIR STORY?SOMETIM LGBTQ PEOPLE AL WH THGS THAT AREN’T LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. TRANS PEOPLE WISH TO BE OPPOSE OF WHAT THEY ARE OM A VERY YOUNG AGE. EVERYONE ELSE JT REALIZ THEIR SIR ARE VERY DIFFERENT OM THE MAJORY OF THOSE THEY LL. CIS. A TERM ED TO SCRIBE SOMEON WHOSE STRAIGHT.WHEN I GREW UP WASN’T FOCED ON BEG SMARTER THAN EVERYONE. IT WASN’T ABOUT BEG A CLASS CLOWN. NOR WAS LATER ON BEG SOMETHG MEANGFUL TO THE PEOPLE SCHOOL. I SAT DOWN AND AVOID EVERYONE. I GOT TOLD I WAS SMART BUT I WAS AWKWARD. A THG AS A KID YOU’RE SHOWN AS BEG EHER AN OUTST OR POPULAR. WH ONE OR THE OTHER SUPPOSEDLY HAVG MEANG ON YOUR LIFE.WE IMAGE THAT KIDS HAVE EASY. YET, YOU FET THAT THEIR ENTIRE CHILDHOOD F WHO THEY BEE WHEN THEY GROW UP. ESPECIALLY WH THE MENTAL FATIGUE OF TRYG TO FIGURE OUT WHY YOU’RE SO DIFFERENT THAN EVERY CHILD YOUR CLASS. NOT TO MENTN WHEN PUBERTY HS AND YOU REALIZE. YOU DON’T LIKE AND YOU’RE HATG YOURSELF. OR BETTER YET, YOU’RE FELY ATTRACTED TO THAT CUTE GUY YOUR CLASS BUT PLOT TWISTS YOU ARE A GUY.WHAT IF YOU’RE QUEER? YOU AREN’T GAY AND YOU DON’T HATE YOUR LIFE TO THE POT THAT YOU… OH WA, YOU PROBABLY DO. WHY? BEE YOU WERE JT GETTG MA FUN OF FOR EVERYTHG THAT YOU WERE DOG. YOU JT FEEL DIFFERENT EVERY DAY BUT YOU DON’T KNOW WHY. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO FACE YOUR FEELGS AT THIS AGE.WHAT IF YOU WORE A TUX TO YOUR PROM BUT WA YOU’RE NOT A GUY ARE YOU? OR THAT ONE DAY YOU WORE A DRS TO SCHOOL AND GOT STARED AT WH YOUR FACE JT FLAMG BEE YOU DON’T HAVE THE NECSARY PARTS.MY CHILDHOOD WOULD ECHO EVERY TRANS PERSON STORY. I GREW UP WANTG TO BE A GIRL. DRS AS ONE AND POSSIBLY BE ONE. I DID THGS THAT LED TO ABE OM A SPECIFIC MEMBER OF MY FAY. WHAT DID I DO THAT WARRANTED THIS? I TOOK FEMALE CLOTHG AND WORE THEM. I ENJOYED THE ACTS OF PLAYG HOE. A GAME WHERE YOU BASILLY ACT AS THOUGH YOU ARE A MOTHER OR FATHER AND PENDG ON HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE THE GAME EQUALS THE KIDS YOU HAVE. USUALLY, HAPPENS WH A LARGER FAY. THE POT BEG? I WANTED TO BE THE MOM.SOMETIM THE KIDS JT WANT TO BE ACCEPTED AND UNRSTOOD. MOST OF THE TIME THEY DIDN’T ASK TO BE THAT WAY. THEY JT ACCEPTED THAT WAS WHO THEY WERE. NO AMOUNT OF NDNG IS GOG TO CHANGE THAT. IT’S ONLY NDNG AWAY OM THE HAPPS THEY FELT WHEN THEY WERE BEG TE TO THEMSELV.WHAT IF WE JT STOPPED QUTNG AND LOVED THEM STEAD?IT’S A QUTN I WONR ABOUT OFTEN. IF WE STOPPED CRICIZG THOSE WHO ACCEPTED WHO THEY ARE WOULD WE ACTUALLY BE HAPPY? WOULD THEY? HOW ABOUT THE WORLD AS A WHOLE?I KNOW THAT I’M HAPPIT WHEN I’M GENRFLUID WEARG WHATEVER I WANT TO FOR THAT DAY. GIRL OR GUY CLOTH I DON’T WANT TO MATTER ANYMORE THEN ALREADY DO. I DON’T WANT PEOPLE G UP TO ME AND HARASSG ME. I JT WANT TO MOVE THROUGHOUT MY DAY. GET TO WORK, BE REFERRED TO BY THE NAME I WANT, HEAD HOME, WORK ON STUFF, AND THEN SLEEP.IT’S WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DO. THEY DO THAT AND THEY AREN’T BOTHERED. THEY HAVE THE MENTAL DRA GONE OM THEM BEE ’S NOT A NCERN. INSTEAD S PROBABLY WHETHER OR NOT THEY DID SOMETHG RRECTLY. WHAT IF THE WORLD OPERATED THAT WAY? CAN ?SOMETIM THE EASIT QUTNS TO ASK ARE THE ON WE AVOID.ANOTHER QUOTE I’VE HEARD PASS RANDOMLY THROUGH QUISIVE PEOPLE. THE WORLD OPERAT TWO WAYS OM WHAT I’VE NOTICED. IT OPERAT THROUGH CURRENCY AND TECHNOLOGY.CURRENCY ALWAYS FIRST. WE WANT TO BE PAID FOR WHAT WE’VE DONE AND THEN TECHNOLOGY. THERE TO MAKE OUR LIV EASIER AND MORE NVENIENT.BUT, WHEN YOU GROW UP ISN’T WHETHER OR NOT YOU N GET THEM. IT’S ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU N MATA THE MENTAL FOC TO DO SO. IT’S ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU LOVE YOURSELF AND N PH FORWARD. IT HAS EVERYTHG TO DO WH MENTAL STATE.THE MENTAL STATE OF LGBTQ PEOPLEI’VE NOTICED THROUGHOUT MY LIFE THAT MY MENTAL HEALTH TERRAT WHENEVER I HAVE A DYSPHORIC DAY. WHAT’S DYSPHORIC? IT’S BASILLY DYSPHORIA, WHICH IS SENTIALLY BEG AT UNEASE OR HAVG A GENERAL DISSATISFACTN WH LIFE, AS FED BY GOOGLE. NOW TAKE ONE STEP AND WE GET GENR DYSPHORIA. THE UNEASE OR DISSATISFACTN WH YOUR GENR.MY MENTAL HEALTH DROPS NSIRABLY WHEN I FEEL THE EPISOS. WILL THEY END? PROBABLY NOT. WHY? BEE AT THOSE MOMENTS I’M NOT HAPPY WH MY BODY OR WHAT I SEE. IT’S ALL MENTAL AND ’S ALL VERY REAL. I HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO SIMPLY SAY. “STOP” AND BE FE AFTERWARD. TST ME, IF I ULD HAVE, I MOST FELY WOULD HAVE.BEG LGBT IS MORE THAN SIMPLY LOOKG TO THE MIRROR AND SAYG WELP GUS I’M GAY TODAY. IT’S ABOUT SLOWLY REALIZG AS YOU GROW UP THAT YOU LIKE DIFFERENT THGS THAN OTHERS YOUR AGE. OR EVEN OTHERS OF YOUR SEX. IT’S ABOUT BEG THAT OUTST OF THE GROUP. YOU GET ED TO BUT YOU EHER SAY SCREW THEM OR YOU WISH SECRETLY THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO JO.BEG GENRFLUID IS AN EXPERIENCE. PEOPLE LIKEN TO BEG TRANSGENR. BEE SOME TIM YOU WANT TO BE THE OPPOSE SEX AND OTHERS YOU’RE PERFECTLY FE WH YOUR SEX. THE ONLY THG STOPPG THEM OM BEG TRANS IS. THEY AREN’T GOG EVERY DAY FOR A LONG TIME WISHG THEY WERE THE OPPOSE SEX.BEG TRANS IS AN EXPERIENCE? WHY. BEE YOU N’T STOP THKG ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU HATE THE BODY YOU WERE BORN AND NOBODY SEEMS TO GET . THEY DON’T UNRSTAND WHY YOU LIKE THAT DRS SO MUCH. OR WHY YOU DRS GIRLY ALL THE TIME AND HATE THOSE GUYS CLOTH THAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO WEAR.EVERYTHG PEOPLE TLE LGBT IS AN EXPERIENCE. HALF THE TIME THOUGH. IT’S NOT A GOOD ONE. IT’S ONE YOU SPEND WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG. WISHG JT ONCE YOU ULD BE NORMAL. THAT YOU HAD IENDS AND LIKED THAT HOT GUY THAT WALKED BY YOU THAT ALL YOU’RE IENDS ARE FAWNG OVER.MENTAL HEALTH TERRAT WHEN PEOPLE REFE TO UNRSTAND OR ACCEPT THE REAL REASON FOR WHY THEY HAVE TO LIVE THERE LIFE.THERE’S A MANTRA THE UNED STAT THAT GO SOMETHG ALONG THE L OF. “AMERI IS ALL ABOUT EEDOM” AND THAT WE ARE “FREE”. YET, EVERY CIZEN FAILS TO REALIZE THAT WE’RE ONLY WHERE WE ARE THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF OTHERS. THAT AT ANY MOMENT THAT NORMAL LIFE LGBTQ PEOPLE CRAVE ULD FALL.IT’S NOT TO SAY WE EXIST SOLELY THE UNED STAT. IT’S THAT WE’RE GETTG KILLED HERE AND DISOWNED. IT’S THAT LIVG THE STAT HAS BEEN MY MA LIVG EXPERIENCE.GROWG UP WHEN I DID WAS BASILLY LIKE WALKG THROUGH A MEFIELD. YOU EHER SHOWED OFF AND HOPE PEOPLE LIKE YOU OR YOU HID . MOST OF THE TIME I SAW WORK FOR GAY GUYS. TRANS PEOPLE CHOSE THE SAFE OPTN OF HIDG. WHY GET MA FUN OF AT SCHOOL AND AT HOME? WHEN YOU JT ACT LIKE YOU AREN’T THE WAY YOU ARE.HOW TO FALLY UNRSTAND YOURSELF AND FIX YOUR MENTAL HEALTH.

The publitn has broad range of topics to explore, om LGBT life, LGBT lov, lbian, gay, transgenr, equaly, sexualy, gay travellg, etc.

History, Rillience & Hope for LGBT Amerins after #OrlandoIt's taken a mute or two for many relig and civic lears to speak clearly and supportively about the Orlando shootg as an act of vlent hate that specifilly targeted lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people. Durg that time, as most people are aware, thoands of gay men and transwomen died (as did many straight and bisexual men and women). Gay men themselv rallied to each other’s sis as did many straight alli, providg pannship, meals, and some measure of nursg re to many people wh a central, and largely unacknowledged, factor the re of men wh AIDS were anized and more loosely nfigured works of lbians.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

John-Manuel Andrte, thor of Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life Ameri (Chigo 1999), explaed the impact of this g together of lbians wh gay men:AIDS expand the gay civil rights movement generally and created a level of solidary between gay men and lbians that didn’t exist before.

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From the earlit days of the epimic, lbians stood by their gay brothers — whether as re provirs for the sick or lobbyg Washgton for jt historian Lillian Farman tails, lbians donated blood for gay men the 1980s when gay men themselv were prevented om dog so.

Wh so many gay men siled by HIV/AIDS, women were took more learship rol LGBT muni, breakg through a pronounced gay male chvism that often veered to misogyny, dampeng participatn post-Stonewall anizg and activism for many the AIDS crisis self ntributed to an endurg policizatn of the LGBT muny, women began to challenge the masculist stctur of power wh a muny whose very survival pend (pends still) on nstctg such stctur. At the same time, as treatments for AIDS beme more promisg and more available and affordable, gay men themselv creasgly regnized the role lbians had played migatg the crisis.

By the late 1990s, then, "gay muny centers" across the untry beme "lbian and gay muny centers, " and beme mon to swch the “G” and the “L” standard acronym (as well as, over time, to add the “T”…and then the “Q”…and so on). Our own treatment of our trans sisters and brothers, whose needs often seemed to many of to pete wh the needs of more socially normative “good gays, ” is only begng to change.

Homophobia | The fear and hatred of or disfort wh people who are attracted to members of the same sex. LGBTQ+ | An acronym for “lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer” wh a "+" sign to regnize the limls sexual orientatns and genr inti ed by members of our muny.

Outg | Exposg someone’s lbian, gay, bisexual transgenr or genr non-bary inty to others whout their permissn.

Same-genr lovg | A term some prefer to e stead of lbian, gay or bisexual to exprs attractn to and love of people of the same genr.

Therefore, transgenr people may intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.