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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Dua is joined by Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting and a leading gun safety and LGBTQ advocate. Brandon talks to Dua about the United States' toxic relationship with guns, processing grief, stemming the tide of the Republican Party’s anti-LGBTQ crusade, and his beloved Orlando.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello and welcome back to another episode |
0:24.7 | of Do a Leaper at Your Service, a podcast series in which I sit down with some of the world's |
0:29.0 | most inspiring minds, including today's very special guest, Brandon Wolfe, an activist, |
0:34.4 | a survivor and an advocate for change whose conversation with me is one of the most powerful |
0:39.2 | you will hear all season. |
0:45.8 | Before we begin, a listener wrote in and asked me something I thought was quite on theme |
0:49.3 | with this week's episode. |
0:51.0 | Here's a voice note from Santiago from Mexico City. |
0:54.7 | Hi, I went to your show in Mexico City just a few days ago with my boyfriend and so |
0:59.1 | with my best friends. |
1:00.6 | During cold hard, I noticed you brought out the LGBTQ flag, which meant a lot to me and |
1:04.9 | I am sure it also meant a lot to other thousands of LGBTQ people that were at the concert at |
1:09.6 | that moment. |
1:11.0 | So I would like to know how you got involved and why is supporting the LGBTQ community |
1:15.3 | so important to you. |
1:17.4 | Thank you very much for being such an inspiration for LGBTQ youth. |
1:21.5 | Santiago, thank you so much for sending that in. |
1:23.9 | I mean, for me, LGBTQ rights are human rights. |
1:27.7 | So supporting the community is something that really just comes naturally to me. |
1:31.8 | The more we're able to normalize that messaging in a way that really feels easy and seamless, |
1:35.8 | then I feel like the less we'll even need to stop and think about this. |
1:39.6 | It's really part of the reason why I wanted to carve out space in the service 95 newsletter |
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