WE ROAR Magazine April 2024 - Magazine - Page 30
"MANY OF YOU SITTING RIGHT HERE IN THE AUDIENCE
ARE PART OF MY COMMUNITY, YET YOU DON'T KNOW
YOU'RE PART OF MY COMMUNITY, OR IF YOU DO, YOU
DON'T WANT ANYBODY ELSE TO KNOW YOU'RE PART
OF MY COMMUNITY."
Well, I'm going to use some language from another
community that I really admire, and that's the LGBTQIA+
community... I learned this a few years ago, the reason why
they're using all those letters is not only to identify this large
community that they are part of, but also because those
were lesbian, queer... Thinking of what those words are
behind those letters and how they’ve been used to hurt
those people to - actually kill those people. Those people
have been killed because they loved the wrong person.
Taking a chapter [from their book], and I remember
somebody asked me one time in a speech,
