How do you make privileged, heterosexual, white Americans understand what it feels like to watch a man beaten to death and know there was no place to go for prevention, protection, justice, or even to report the crime, because the armed policeman who stood beside me, he saw it too, but refused to stop it because gay lives didn't matter?

Racial minorities in America understand what that feels like. Our transgender friends today certainly understand what that feels like.

I believe the best way to make the rest of America understand what that feels like is by telling our stories of survival.

Tell us your story!

Here are some of my stories...

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