“Kids are safer when they are with caring adults in inclusive safe environments,” Tanisha Jumper, the Chief Communications Officer with Seattle Public Schools, told KIRO Newsradio.
Tens of thousands attended Pride Parades around the Puget Sound last weekend. On
Ursula commented that she was eavesdropping on a conversation Travis was having with KIRO Newsradio’s Micki Gamez, who is also gay. She asked why Micki and Travis don’t feel as safe as they used to. “Before I really genuinely believed that if you get to know me, you’ll see that I’m not all the scary things that you think I am,” he added. “And now they know me, and they hate me still and sometimes more. And so that isn’t about them seeing that I’m a boring normal dad next door, who does the same things that you do.”
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