In today’s video, I cut through the false claims that LGBTQ+ people are a threat to society, to children, or to social order.
None of these accusations have ever been true, and none of the predicted harms have ever come to pass.
Drawing on a powerful passage from Forging Queer Leaders by Bree Fram and Liz Cavallaro, I highlight how—time and again—every dire prediction made against us has been proven wrong, yet we still allow these voices to dominate public debate. It’s time to end that cycle.
My message is simple:
Stop apologizing, stop arguing, and stop giving lies and falsehoods air-time. The only response needed is clear and firm—you are wrong.
“Every time someone lends some weird, unfounded accusation or prediction of what it’s going to be like to allow LGBTQ people to exist in public they’ve been wrong. Every single time. All the predictions about what would happen if we allowed gay marriage, if we allowed gays in the military, if we allowed trans people in the military. Every prediction made by the church has been wrong. The world is still moving, the country is still here, nothing has happened. They’ve been wrong and guess what, we still allow them to make it. We still give it credence and we still allow people to debate us on national television. And none of the media, or even our politicians, have called it out. [They haven’t said] “You have been wrong. It’s false. It’s made up.” We aren’t doing that forcefully enough and we continue to allow them to have a stage where those things are viewed as true. And the only way that we are going to win is for us to start telling people that they’ve been wrong.”
