On National Coming Out Day, don’t forget that we’re winning! (w/ Kevin Jennings of Lambda Legal)

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes it’s difficult to remember how far we’ve come in the fight for equality.

Kevin Jennings is CEO of Lambda Legal, the country’s oldest LGBTQ+ legal rights organization. He says it’s important to remember where we’ve been and how far we’ve come to have a clear sense of where we’re going, explains why he’s optimistic about young people, and shares his vision for a future where no one needs to come out - we’re all just free to be ourselves.

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0:00.0	Don't let them take away your joy.
0:02.7	Don't let them take away your hope.
0:05.1	Don't let them take away your sense of power.
0:08.8	Because if they succeed in doing that, things will indeed never change.
0:18.1	There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:26.2	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:31.7	October 11th is National Coming Out Day.
0:34.4	We spend a lot of time on this podcast talking about the very real threats
0:38.5	facing the LGBTQ plus community. And while there are many fights ahead, it's important not to
0:44.4	lose sight of all the wins we've had for equality. Because we're winning. Just asked Kevin Jennings.
0:51.9	My name is Kevin Jennings. I use he-him pronouns. and I'm the CEO of Lambda Legal, which is America's oldest
0:58.1	LGBTQ-plus legal rights organization.
1:01.5	Lambda Legal's lawyers have won precedent-setting civil rights cases on everything from marriage
1:05.9	equality to expressions of gender identity to health care discrimination.
1:10.3	But before Kevin was a CEO of the oldest LGBTQ legal rights organization in the country,
1:16.1	he was an educator, just worried about his students.
1:19.7	So Kevin, you actually started your career as an educator, right?
1:23.9	Like fighting discrimination for educators.
1:26.6	Tell me about that.
1:33.3	Sure. So I began my career as a high school teacher in 1985. I'm a first-generation college graduate. I was the first person in my family to go to college.
1:38.3	And so I wanted to go back into the classroom and try to help young people have the opportunities that I
1:45.4	had had, which no one else in my family had ever had before. My father only had a 10th grade
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