#ILoveGay

Lynda Spann has been talking about the importance of mental health and how important it is to have a healthy relationship for over 20 years, and she isn’t stopping any time soon.

A Kaiser Family Foundation study found that LGBT people experienced the pandemic differently than non-LGBT people.

Wayne Carkeek, launched his CBD company after coming out to his family as homosexual and hopes to help others in the LGBTQ community.

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As a queer sex therapist who works with both individuals and couples, I have been especially excited to personally and professionally witness CBD’s benefits in enhancing sexual wellness within our community.

Test of Free Mask Offer With CBD Purchase Generates Over 11,000 Inquiries in Single Day - According to NY Times columnist Frank Bruni in the new Covid-19 world, masks have become both basic necessities of civic responsibility and “tribal totems” and expressions of who we are. What better way then with June just around the corner to express our Pride with a special Rainbow mask while also enjoying the anxiety reducing, anti-inflammatory benefits of CBD.

Ambitious “Do Good, Do Well” Start-up, Led by Seasoned Team of Branding and Marketing Executives, Raises More Than $1.5mm in Angel Funding - Few groups could benefit more from the non-addictive, natural wellness properties of CBD than the LGBT community where anxiety levels are as much as 2.5x higher than their heterosexual counterparts (Mental Health America). That’s the premise of a new Southern California start-up called Out & About CBD with the launch of its new line of CBD products this month.

The campaign is aimed at encouraging dialogue about mental health within the LGBTQ+ youth community, while reducing stigma and providing resources.

The study also describes how queer, intersectional kink practitioners felt “empowered” by their access to queer kink communities.

“Coming Out” of COVID-19 - Whether it was something you started brainstorming right away or something that occurred to you somewhere along in the quarantined state of the world, “How can I use this time to reinvent myself?” is likely a question you’ve thought about in the past however many weeks or so. We are in the slow but sure process of unfreezing things and that thawing process is coincidentally coinciding with Pride Season. I feel it’s a good time to discuss how the queer community specifically can “come out” of this stronger as our resilient type tend to do after trying times.

Relationship Enables Ambitious “Do Good, Do Well” Funded Start-up, to Be Issue Thought Leader on Intersection of CBD and Queer Women Sex - Casey Tanner has a story that’s almost too intriguing to believe; daughter of a pastor, forced to sign a written vow to heterosexuality as a freshman at a conservative, Midwestern, religious college, fell in love with another women and when on to become a national spokeswoman on queer sex. Ms. Tanner is a self-confessed “Revel” With A Cause preaching radical self love to queer women in a society that breeds self doubt.

New Product Combines Experience Enhancing CBD Benefits and Safe Sex Practices - Out & About CBD’s new water-soluble CBD personal lubricant offers the LGBT community the best of both worlds. By being water-soluble the lubricant does not weaken condom structure nor negatively impact the use of sexual toys. Concurrently, CBD enhances sexual wellness and pleasure by facilitating increased blood flow. Additionally, the product’s natural fragrance, and neutral taste do not deter from a more creative sexual experience.

If there is yet one harmony that unites the LGBT community in all of its glory, it is the belief to love—to triumph over hate and oppression in our age-old story. Collectively we are winning the ongoing fight for equality and queer rights…a battle  tempered by illness, grit, and strife throughout these years—but for many of us that battle is also fought within.