For nearly three years, young LGBTQ plus people who call 988, the country's suicide and crisis lifeline had the option to press three to receive specialized services from LGBTQ trained counselors. That is now a thing of the past. The Trump administration officially shut down the program on Thursday, a move advocates say will be devastating for queer children and young adults who are more like more than four times more likely than their peers to contemplate suicide.The CEO of the Trevor Project said the Trum ...

Jim, you are a strong supporter of the Trevor Project. You're a strong supporter of making sure that people have a lifeline, young people especially, have a lifeline um to connection and you know, not killing themselves because the world tells them they don't belong. Your thoughts about the suicide prevention hotline going dark this week.Um I think it's quite literally criminal. I mean, it doesn't it's one of the kinds of decisions that you're like this is there's no good reason for it. there's it doesn't m ...

What does the American flag symbolize to you. Depending on how the United States feels about you will depend on how you feel about the flag. I think of trauma.I am not welcome here. The flag represented unity. How are we united.if you are not a straight white sis cisgender male that this doesn't belong to you. To that I say yeah I curse. That was a snapshot of the new short film Reclaiming the Flag which as you just saw I had a chance to participate in.The documentary, which is now streaming on YouTube, unp ...

[Applause] with I'd like to ask for a couple of trigger warnings because I'm going to talk about cancer, suicide, and 5 years ago I was diagnosed with Parkinson's which makes me stutter a bit, tremble a bit, and have facial masking, which means I look like a grumpy git most of the time, which I think I've probably had since I was 14. My story starts 18 years ago when my phone rang from my best friend Gary Moose Cloon, nicknamed Moose because of his gargantuan stature. We played ice hockey together for club ...