Today I am wearing the only purple garment I own in solidarity with those who choose to remember our young ones who have taken their lives after being bullied over the perception that they are not straight. I don’t know how the numbers have changed but, as of a decade ago, a queer person was twice as likely to have attempted suicide as their straight counterparts. Make that a non-white queer person, and that figure jumped to eleven times as likely.
This is an epidemic.
If anyone has updates to those numbers or knows of any vigils tonight, please let me know at theyellowmenace1 at gmail dot com or leave a comment here.
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