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" I came out at 16 years old as a proud, gay man. My last girlfriend in high school - when I was 15 - became pregnant with my child but did not tell me. "
Karamo Brown
Proud
School
Man
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" Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say. "
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" Often, men forget to buy their grooming supplies. "
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" Although someone's vote may hurt me by supporting the structures in place that hold people of colour, women, and LGBT+ people down, some people just don't realise that these structures exist. The way someone votes doesn't make them a bad person; it just means that, at the time, this was the best decision they thought they could make. "
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" We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women. "
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" We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women. "
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" Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard. "
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" My background is in social work and psychotherapy. "
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" Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue. "
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" Its rare to see a proud and out LGBT person win an Oscar in a lead or supporting actor role. "
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" Literally, I look back on it now, and I often think to myself, 'Karamo you should have done better.' But that's the thing: when you're in that dark space, you can't do any better. And it's for people around you to say, 'You know what? I need to check in with you and be there to support you.' "
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Think
" My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids. "
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Kids
Way
" While the Internet has allowed for some extraordinary progress in creating conversations about diversity, it also allows uninformed comments that one has made in the past to live forever. "
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Live
" I will kick my best friend out of the way if RuPaul wants to stand next to me as my best man. "
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Best Friend
Best
" It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause. "
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Treat
" We're trying to get the world to see it's not always about the outside, it's about the inside. "
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Trying
See
Inside
" No matter if someone has personal feelings about my sexuality or how they view me, it's all of our job to continue to show up in spaces where we can say, 'You know what? I can figure out how to try to work with you.' "
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" There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies. "
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School
Books
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" My photo has nothing to do with the person I am, the dreams I have, the family I want to build, the family I'm from. "
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I Am
" What defines someone as a 'man' should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him. "
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" That's the beauty of 'Queer Eye' coming back. No matter how far you think we've come as a society, there's still work that needs to be done. "
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" Being an openly gay black man, unfortunately I've had experiences working with individuals who've tried to exploit my blackness or my gayness in a way that doesn't make me feel comfortable, or they try to manipulate me into being a caricature of myself. "
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" By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed. "
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" I know a lot of people who are depressed, and they walk around, and they're smiling every day, but no one's asking them how they're really doing. "
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" Encourage your friend and family member who are queer parents of color to post their stories and share it with the world. It's time for us to be seen. "
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" Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced. "
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Hollywood
" Really, I think the extra layer of raising a son as a gay black man comes from trying to raise a son who doesn't subscribe to masculine stereotypes. "
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