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Guy Bosworth's avatar

Thank you Fabrice for reminding us that we get to decide when we have equality. And that it's ok to adapt our strategies, but not to give up. As always, thank you for leading the way.

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SB Rawz's avatar

In the years we were together - 1997 to 2001 - my first girlfriend and I kissed in public once and held hands twice. For the last 8 years, my wife and I have been as out as out can be and despite living in small Southern cities, we've only been met by warmth. I don't discount the role our white skin plays in this but I also don't discount the overall friendly lived experience.

I'm horrified by the amplification of those who would dehumanizing everyone who isn't a white cishet able-bodied nerotypical man and I will continue to trust and encourage the majority who live on a spectrum of not caring either way to being fully for equal rights for all.

In our last home, our neighbor who became a friend had clearly never spent time before with anyone like us - no one queer or Jewish or Black or brown (like our friends and extended family) and yet he was able to meet us as neighbors, with acceptance and in the spirit of community. May he be representative.

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