By Nick Levine — 2020
Though pop culture often portrays queer people successfully coming out young, a generation of our closeted LGBTQ elders might disagree.
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Out pro wrestler Logan Black found the response to his coming out ‘overwhelming in the best way.’
For LGBTQ youth in particular, the Internet can be a refuge—a safe place to feel less alone. For queer youth to feel normal, they need to see, read and hear the voices of others who look like them and use the same identifying labels.
“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”
What it’s like coming out as a black man when people see it as a ‘white thing.’
Creating spaces where the need to assimilate, conform, and belong are no longer important
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We all want more well-being in our lives.
The ways in which we currently age have been programmed into us, and we have accepted this idea as a reality. As a society, with some exceptions, we have come to believe that we all will get old, sick, senile, frail, and die -- in that order. This does not have to be the truth for us any longer.
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Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.