NYC Data Stories: Allyship
For when people say they’re sick of seeing gay stuff everywhere. Suck it up. 4 years. 4 years. And that’s just on the books, it’s legal. It doesn’t stop shitty attitudes, actions, or straight up violence.
Expand the data to legal protection for the general queer population [LGBTQUIA+etc] from discrimination and it becomes zero years. It’s not just a tiny amount of time for us, it’s a very slim addition to rights which otherwise remain perilous.
Not to mention that this is just the US. There are plenty of places where being gay is still punishable by death and those people may no longer be able to seek refuge from persecution here if the President and his cronies have their way.
Immigration is a gay rights issue.
Immigration is a human rights issue.