![]() But that still doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of trauma to it.” “Now I look back on my past, and I’ve healed,” he said. Some exposure to LGBTQ topics – what it means to be gay, queer or transgender, and why it’s wrong to discriminate against LGBTQ people – might have helped alleviate the pain they inflicted, he said. Gomez, now a high school senior, blames his former classmates’ bullying on ignorance – they “didn’t know what they were talking about or what they were saying because it was all very learned from other people,” he said. His experiences are not unusual for a young LGBTQ person – 52% of LGBTQ middle and high schoolers said they’d been bullied either in person or electronically in the past year, according to a 2021 report from the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for queer and trans youth. In elementary school, classmates called him names for what they thought were feminine traits, like the pitch of his voice and his proclivity for hand gestures. ![]() This weekend, Javi Gomez is traveling nearly 500 miles from his native Miami to Florida’s capital in Tallahassee to plead his case against a piece of legislation LGBTQ advocates are calling the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
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