Last night, my agency held its annual gala, four days after much of the LGBT world was shot through with a bolt of fear that brought some of us to the verge of physical illness. On Wednesday, I was in meetings marked by stunned silence, abject fear, and immutable grief. The questions everywhere I turned […]
Archive for November, 2016
Stretching for Words Like It’s a Yoga Pose
Posted: 13th November 2016 by admin in BlogTags: #LGBT youth, community, Dare to Dream, LGBT issues, Trevor Project, Youth Outlook
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Daring Crustaceans and Other Adventurers
Posted: 2nd November 2016 by admin in BlogTags: #support, courage, death, grief, healing, vulnerability
November 2, 2016 Five years ago this afternoon, I was at a local middle school speaking about LGBT youth and their developmental process. Earlier in the day, I’d learned that a former intern, my very first intern at Youth Outlook—Brian– had died, only 24 hours after learning about the death of one of the drop-in […]