Beyond resilience: Maintaining mental wellness in anti-LGBTQ times [Video]

Pick your head up, warrior. It might seem like the world is against you, and we don’t blame you for feeling that way. Despite the LGBTQ community’s rich history, incredible cultural contributions and ability to defy against all odds again and again, there’s no sugarcoating the brutal reality many of us endure as queer, trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people.

But let’s be real, it’s been an uphill battle for LGBTQ people in the U.S. since American colonialism, which not only extinguished indigenous communities, but also the queer and gender-nonconforming people of indigenous cultures who were celebrated and loved. And even though we’ve made leaps and bounds as a community overall, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric seems louder than ever today—not to mention the little everyday injustices, like microaggressions, misgendering or exclusionary language—things can feel worse than they are better. Even the FBI last month warned of increased terrorist attacksfor Pride Month, though many LGBTQ leaders expressed a …