When I think back to coming of age as a queer man, I most remember the lack of “possibility models.” I had no idea what my life could look like.
June Special Feature
Happy Pride Month!
For our June special feature we would like to highlight the experience and advice of our LGBTQ+ Elders with the Washington Post Article "LGBTQ youth want role models. Queer Elders have a lot of advice.
Excerpt:
The challenge of generational isolation is common in today’s queer youth. Young queer people without positive role models are at much higher risk for “psychological distress” in their adolescence and depression in adulthood.
When the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides information and crisis support to LGBTQ youth, asked young people what brings them joy, respondents consistently pointed toward examples of the future. They cited things such as, “Happy LGBT Elders,” “Queer role models” and “Learning I’m not alone and that there are more people like me” as sources of hope
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