Twitter Diversity Chief on Making Pride Year-Long Exercise

Every year during Pride season, I make a point of taking stock — of the man I’ve become, the family I’ve built, my hopes for our community, and what I’m doing to help make them real. It hasn’t always been this way, though ... quite the opposite, in fact. 

I grew up a queer Latinx kid from a Catholic immigrant family in the agricultural Central Valley of California during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The only thing I knew about gay people back then was what I saw on the news and heard at church. Our clergy told us that gay people were abominations who would burn in hell. At home, the TV news told us they were monsters. Everywhere I looked, I was told to hate myself and be scared of what I represented. The drumbeat was loud and relentless. Read Full Article »