In the movie “Bent,” a gay man, on his way to a concentration camp, bangs his head against the box car wall saying, “This can’t be happening.”

The Sixth Annual South Florida LGBTQ Philanthropy Awards was held on Jan. 6, hosted by The Our Fund Foundation, with Bank of America Private Bank as the presenting sponsor.

If that headline shocked you, it should have. The executive orders that President Donald Trump has been signing may very well affect your health. Oh, you thought Trump was only attacking the “T” in our community? Nope. He’s targeting the “L,” the “G,” and the “B” as well. Let me give you some critical facts that explain why you should be alarmed — very alarmed.

In the final days of 2024, a federal judge in Florida’s Northern District issued a ruling rejecting a preliminary injunction against a new Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) policy targeting transgender inmates.

Donald Trump’s unhinged proposal to take Gaza, “relocate” more than a million starving people to an unspecified locale, and turn their bombed homes into a resort for the wealthy didn’t go over well.

When I told Ray that I no longer wanted to travel several hours to speak on LGBTQ issues in the workplace, I wondered what might be next. Since then, I’ve written my memoir, and worked in an advisory capacity for two schools in Haiti, and for Human Rights Watch in South Florida.