Making Sense of Anti-LGBTQ Hysteria | Why Pride Matters
Channel: Raif Derrazi
Date: 02/06/2023

Today marks the first day of pride month and w/ so much aggression and hate in the air I’ve been super reflective lately.

I grew up in a time when ‘don’t say gay’ was the status quo, never learned anything about being gay in school, gay marriage was a far off dream, went thru conversion therapy in church, suicide attempt and more…and it messed me up for a very long time during the most formative years of my life.

A lot of the arguments lately are to ‘protect the children’ but in fact a lot of these bills will hurt kids who are just like me when I was that age. Education/exposure will not turn children into lgbtq+ and learning about sexual orientation is not just about SEX, it’s about so much more. 

Education will allow those of us who are lgbtq+ to know that we are SEEN, we are WORTHY and we are VALUED as an integral part of society.

Education is and always has been the answer. Waiting until my younger self was 18 years old to finally learn that who I am is perfectly good is WAY too late and almost ended my life too soon. 

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