Thanks for reaching out, Susan. For all its incompleteness, we’re grateful for strides made in our LGBTQ+ friends, family, and community members achieving the degree of acceptance and normalization they have today. Despite advances made in acceptance and toleration, many LGBTQ+ people continue to face grave challenges. This includes increased instances of threats, physical harm, mental health challenges, and higher rates of both considered and attempted suicide. These risks amplify further for transgender, non-binary people, and LGBTQ+ people of color. Celebrating relationships and places that protect and love our LGBTQ+ friends, family, and community members shouldn’t contribute to a false sense that these barriers and serious risks disappeared into a bygone era, but should instead be taken as a contribution towards achieving the complete normalization, the unreserved love and respect, and the freedom of each person to live in joy as their authentic selves. 

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