QUESTION

What’s your favorite part of being queer?

Answer

Hi Friend, 

My favorite part about being queer is the community. Coming from a team sport, being queer feels like being on another team. Everyone comes together to support each other through the hard times and celebrate each other in our victories. 

The LGBTQ+ community is so diverse, yet we still find a way to find unity, solidarity, and respect for one another, and that inspires me. I think all communities could learn something from the values the queer community exemplifies. And though no community is perfect, I think that it’s pretty cool that to be queer truly means to be you and to be free.

R.K. RUSSELL
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is a social justice advocate, published poet & former NFL player. He made history by becoming the first out active NFL player to identify as bisexual. His latest project, "Huddle Men's Journal," is a guided journal for men that helps them explore their personal depths and discover treasures of strength, willpower, and more.