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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited. Why because it is June. It

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Speaker 1: is June first, which means that it is the beginning

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Speaker 1: of LGBTQ Pride Month. Now, if you've been listening to

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Speaker 1: wok at for the past couple of years, then you

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Speaker 1: know that I take Pride very very seriously and I

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Speaker 1: try to use the month to showcase performers, entertainers, academics, authors, activists,

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Speaker 1: all who are members of the LGBTQ community, as well

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Speaker 1: as bring you conversations and the issues that are most

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Speaker 1: impacting the community. This Pride, however, has me filled with

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Speaker 1: a mix of emotions, which is what brings me to

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Speaker 1: the title of this month and the theme for this

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Speaker 1: month on WOKF, which is you can't ban queer Joy.

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Speaker 1: You cannot ban queer joy. And why did we choose

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Speaker 1: to run with this? Because what we are witnessing happen

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Speaker 1: across this country is a wave of hate that I

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Speaker 1: don't think that we have seen since the beginning of

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Speaker 1: Pride celebrations, which began as a riot at Stonewall in

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Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties, led by black, trans women and queer

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Speaker 1: people who had had enough of being bullied and beaten

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Speaker 1: by police on a regular basis, and on that night

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Speaker 1: they fought back. One year on this show, we did

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Speaker 1: Pride as a Riot as a reminder of the founding

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Speaker 1: of Pride that we have seen in many ways become

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Speaker 1: commercialized and corporatized over the past several decades. Why because

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Speaker 1: before the entirety of the Budweiser and the Target debacle,

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Speaker 1: we saw corporations decide that they're gonna rainbow things up

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Speaker 1: for the month of June, they'll ignore you for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the year. And as a black queer woman,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you they basically have done to Pride

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Speaker 1: what they do to Black History Month, which is, oh,

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Speaker 1: let us go all in for these you know, thirty

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Speaker 1: days or twenty eight days or what have you. And

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Speaker 1: then we're not actually conscious about how we create products,

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Speaker 1: how we create real inclusion and belonging in our marketing

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Speaker 1: right in both our internal and external work that we're

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Speaker 1: doing with these companies, and as we are seeing folks,

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Speaker 1: you know, Target succumb to the whims and grievances of

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Speaker 1: white cis hetero fucking homophobes and transphobes in this country,

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Speaker 1: as we're seeing Budweiser do the same and lose money

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Speaker 1: because you know, their aggressive, toxic white cis quote unquote

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Speaker 1: masculine men have decided that you know, what gets in

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Speaker 1: the way of their masculinity, and apparently the ability to

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Speaker 1: drink a beer is knowing that queer people too drink

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Speaker 1: that same fucking American beer. It's so sick and twisted.

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Speaker 1: What's happening, you know, I likened it the other day

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Speaker 1: to this like whole rampage around Target, right as me

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Speaker 1: walking in as a person who eats meat and says,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, they're selling vegan meat here, They're selling

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Speaker 1: vegan baked goods here, and just going in and tossing

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Speaker 1: over the fucking kitchen area of Target because I'm a

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Speaker 1: meat eater and now I feel infringed upon. That's how

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Speaker 1: fucking stupid these people sound. That's how fucking dumb. You

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Speaker 1: don't like the pride shit at Target, don't fucking buy it, right,

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing that I said, you know, a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago on Twitter. You don't like the

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Speaker 1: books that are in certain libraries, don't check them out.

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Speaker 1: You don't like the books that are being read in

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Speaker 1: a school that you don't even have children that are

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Speaker 1: attending in Like, look the other fucking way. This is

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Speaker 1: a country with lots of different people who look differently,

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Speaker 1: pray differently, love differently, and think differently. That is supposed

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Speaker 1: to be the beauty and foundation of a democracy. You

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Speaker 1: wanna go live right in a theocrisy, then go someplace

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Speaker 1: fucking else. But what you're not gonna do is that

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna continue to try and decimate our feeling

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Speaker 1: of self work right, You're not gonna continue to decimate

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Speaker 1: our feeling of pride, of what it means to live

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Speaker 1: authentically in our skin and show up in our day

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Speaker 1: to day lives. So for the month of June and

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Speaker 1: from here until the end of fucking time, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna ban queer joy. You're not gonna ban but black joy.

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Speaker 1: Because we have a right to exist, and not just

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Speaker 1: in the small, narrow, pale, miserable little bubble that white cis. Hetero, racist, homophobic,

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Speaker 1: transphobic pieces of trash want to exist. And yes I

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Speaker 1: will call names because if you don't like somebody, here's

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Speaker 1: an idea. Don't fuck with them, right, don't go to

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Speaker 1: the Drag Bengos show, don't go to the library at

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Speaker 1: drag story time. But you don't get to create the

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Speaker 1: reality for the rest of us. And this is why

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, folks that this Pride season is

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Speaker 1: so fucking important. You know, there was a time where

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Speaker 1: I think that I had gotten complacent myself because I

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Speaker 1: have lived only only lived in blue states and cities

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Speaker 1: on Long Island. It was not quote unquote Maga country

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Speaker 1: right of all different persuasions. That's who the fuck lived

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Speaker 1: out East on Long Island. Yes, we're there are incidences

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Speaker 1: of race and racism, absolutely, because we live in America

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Speaker 1: that is a racist country, that fucking you know, white

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Speaker 1: supremacy flows through the Fawcetts. At that same time, you

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Speaker 1: could ask me, did you ever feel unsafe growing up? No?

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Speaker 1: I did not. Did ever feel racism, yeah, up, so

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Speaker 1: fucking lutely, But did I feel unsafe? Did I feel unwanted? No?

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Speaker 1: It hasn't been folks, until the last seven years that

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Speaker 1: when I go out east on Long Island and I

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Speaker 1: see these fucking tattered Trump flags flying everywhere, that I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I had no idea that the neighbor two doors down

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Speaker 1: neighborhood that I frequently walked in and played in as

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Speaker 1: a kid was filled with a bunch of homophobes in Transphil.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea, right. And so what Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and magaism has done is give permission for people to

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Speaker 1: beat their yes, and I ask those people, right, how

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Speaker 1: is your life better over the last seven years? I'm

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Speaker 1: just curious what Donald Trump and magadon has actually done

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Speaker 1: to better the lives of their most loyal, fucking rabid followers.

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Speaker 1: Are you richer? Right? Like? Were you able to buy

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Speaker 1: a home off of your hate? Are you happier? Because

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Speaker 1: what's wild is that these people seem more miserable than

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Speaker 1: fucking ever because guess what, holding and spewing so much

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Speaker 1: hate and toxicity and taking that QAnon and fox in

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Speaker 1: every day all day, all it does is corrode your insides.

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Speaker 1: They'll learn that later on, right, because to be actually

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Speaker 1: conscious to the ways in which you are holding such

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Speaker 1: horrible negativity that your glory in life right now is

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Speaker 1: to ensure that other people suffer more. It's just it

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Speaker 1: is a wild, wild place to exist. And you see

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Speaker 1: the thing that I understand and what I have understood

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Speaker 1: to be true about the LGBTQ plus community in this

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Speaker 1: of people that are so full of hate and you

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Speaker 1: the queer community. Is this? The queer community is bold,

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Speaker 1: why outside of your ability to control. You see the

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Speaker 1: reason why cis hetero, anti trans and anti queer folks

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Speaker 1: pure fucking fear. What does it mean? What does their

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Speaker 1: own feelings and their own desires, and now here you

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Speaker 1: if they had courage enough. That's what that is about,

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Speaker 1: because it takes a whole hell of a lot more

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Speaker 1: self than it does to go along with the fucking pack,

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Speaker 1: and have the audacity to demand that those around you

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Speaker 1: even if you don't fall into their uniform idea of

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Speaker 1: who made up the rules, And why the fuck does

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Speaker 1: last time I checked, we're not robots yet. The last

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Speaker 1: time I checked, Elon Musk didn't implant us all with neuralink.

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Speaker 1: The last I checked. That the God that these people

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Speaker 1: They're banning books right, changing curriculum, because the power that

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Speaker 1: away their access to education, We're gonna take away critical thought.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make them turn on each other and hate

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Speaker 1: the why why have we been going along with this?

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Speaker 1: Why do things need to be pink or blue? Who

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Speaker 1: We need right to recreate this idea of humanness? What

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Speaker 1: it means to value people outside of the is that

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Speaker 1: quote unquote understand me in order to respect my humanity.

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Speaker 1: I'm not asking for your tolerance. I'm not even asking

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Speaker 1: So part of me is always going to be about

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Speaker 1: how they look, who they love, how they pray, and

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Speaker 1: much hate and as much lies at me as possible,

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Speaker 1: but you are not going to steal my humanity, not

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Speaker 1: my dignity. So what I ask for all of you,

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Speaker 1: is to find a way to support LGBTQ youth who

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Speaker 1: are truly struggling during this time. Because the Republican Party

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Speaker 1: themselves in. So, whether it is that you look at

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Speaker 1: an organization like Family Quality, you look at an organization

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Speaker 1: like Glisten p HRC, your local organizations that are queer focused.

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Speaker 1: If you have the resources, donate, if you have the time, volunteer.

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Speaker 1: I just saw today that my own Brooklyn Public Library

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn who can actually check out e books. Right So,

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Speaker 1: for that kid that is living in Florida that can't

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Speaker 1: understand that not all cis hetero people hate them. What

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Speaker 1: raining down on this country. The LGBTQ community deserves more.

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Speaker 1: Queer youth deserve more than what is happening, and we

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Speaker 1: can all do better to make sure that queer joy

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Speaker 1: is not banned. So find a way to excise your

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Speaker 1: power and take up space this fucking month. If you

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Speaker 1: do your best to find ways to support, to donate,

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Speaker 1: to volunteer, to let queer youth know, and queer people

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Speaker 1: in your own community know they are not fighting this

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Speaker 1: know that queer people are often the canaries in the

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Speaker 1: coal mine, as was said to me recently, first they

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Speaker 1: go after them, then they go after everybody else. Don't

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Speaker 1: let that be the case. Not this month of June,

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Speaker 1: and not any fucking month. Now is the time to

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Speaker 1: all communities that are under attack. I look forward to

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Speaker 1: this month of June on wokf with each and every

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Speaker 1: single one of you. That is it for me today,

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Speaker 1: dear friends, on as always, power to the people and

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Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke

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Speaker 1: as fuck. H