
And still.
More than 800,000 people a year die by suicide and 500,000 others end up in the hospital with injuries related to self-harm. Queer kids rejected by their families are almost nine times more likely to make a suicide attempt than those who are accepted. Kids wonder why they must be different in a society that tells them they’d be better off dead than who they are. In 1973, just nineteen years before I was born, “homosexuality” was removed from the DSM. And still, society tells