GLAAD CEO: ‘We Live in a Dangerous Society if You Are LGBTQ’

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ELLIS: “You know, I think we’re all feeling it. We all — we live in a dangerous society if you are LGBTQ, unfortunately, but with that said, we are survivors and we’re thrivers. So, as a community, we always come together and we lift each other up. I will say to that, you know, we have been counting at GLAAD and we’re about to release a report that in the past year, we’ve seen 125 either violent attacks or threats of violent attacks against drag events, joyous drag events. And this is part of this rhetoric machine that the right-wing has started and that, you know, social media is fueling, and so it’s really important for us as a community to gather and to have safe spaces to do that in.”