Practicing What Your Preach by Taking Your Own Medicine Have you ever looked at your life and realized that you are, in one way or another, just a statistic? Growing up as a Black gay man in America, you are inundated with statistics about who you are. Not just the number of accolades that your favorite athlete has earned or Oscars that your favorite actor received. You learn early on the Facts of Life. You are more likely than your White peers to have gone to bed hungry, been reliant on public assistance, been raised in a single-parent household, experienced unjustified police contact, gone to jail, participated in commercial sex work, been discriminated in hiring and retention practices,...
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