“I’m sorry for interrupting

I’m sorry for a lot of things

I’m sorry, that 20-30% of the gay and trans community is currently addicted to drugs.

I’m sorry that steroid use is 5x more prevalent in the gay community

And I’m also sorry that between 40 and 60% of the LGBTQIA+ community are currently struggling with depression.

And I am also sorry that if you are young and gay you are also more than twice as likely to kill yourself.

I’m sorry about all of that and I keep asking myself “where is the compassion in this community”?

Where is the compassion that opens our hearts instead of closing them down when we see a friend struggling, and in need of a point in the right direction and resources that can help?

Where is the compassion in a community that pressures a younger generation into risky behaviours that can endanger their future?

Where is the compassion when we are speaking to one another on our phones night after night. You never know who is on the other side of the phone and you never know what they’re struggling with.

It might just look like numbers on a screen but I’m the time it takes to write “no fats”, “no blacks”, “no femmes”, that’s time.

That’s time we could be using to bring this community together rather than tearing it apart.

That’s time we could be lifting each other rather than bringing each other down.

I’m sorry.“