The road to equality has always been difficult, but there’s only one direction: Forward.

This has been a challenging election season. The result was not what many of us had hoped. LGBTQ+ people across the nation are rightfully fearful of the impact a second Trump presidency and a Republican-controlled Congress could have on our community and the country as a whole. It’s a lot to process.

It’s essential to be there for each other, express our anger, fear, exhaustion, and disappointment, and take solace in the fact we are not alone. Then we will dust ourselves off and get right back to the fight. This is what we have always done.

To paraphrase Human Rights Campaign’s executive director Kelley Robinson, who spoke at a roundtable hosted by LGBTQ Nation last month: I wouldn’t want to go back in a

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