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And why keeping it at Pride saves lives. LGBTQ+ communities and Kink/BDSM/Leather communities overlap in many crucial ways, and I refuse to participate in the erasure of these essential connections. The Queer Rights movement was and is a movement for radical sexual liberation, and rebellion against the idea that everything sexual (especially non-normatively sexual) is harmful is the exact reason we have a Pride to begin with. Queer leather bars, bathhouses, sex clubs like the

Whether we're talking the extreme of "conversion therapy" or the microagressions of a well-intentioned psychotherapist, there is a lot that can go wrong when working with folks with marginalized gender and sexual identities - and it's impact MATTERS. (TW: mention of LGBTQ+ suicidality and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination). Let's break it down: It is not a given that if a therapist (or other care provider) does not personally feel prejudiced towards LGBTQIA+ people that this will tr