Podcast: Navigating Grief in the Queer Community

Grief just like any other painful emotion, it makes you vulnerable. However as someone from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community your sexual orientation or gender identity can make put you in the crosshairs for mistreatment every day.

As a perviously traumatized person experiencing disenfranchised grief can make you a target all over again. It is like having to disclose a disability or something else personal that may effect someone else's judgment or treatment of you.

People who disagree, dislike or straight up reject a person's right to be who they are and love who they love creates automatic barriers between queer folk and people who do not support a safe space or interaction. Imagine having to disclose the death of your partner or spouse to that kind of person, who deny your right to have a same sex partner at all.

Sometimes, like your identity, it can feel like your grief is invisible to anti-gay people. Even more invisible than the invisible disability grief already is. In the newest podcast of "As I Live and Grieve" I talk to Kathy Gleason, a host who knows grief, about being queer and bereaved. It was enjoyable, intense, and candid as always. Please give it a listen on the following platforms and if you want to chime in about your own experience of loss, queer or otherwise, please drop a comment. As a bisexual, single mom who has been grieving the loss of her partner since 2012 I can tell you it always helps to chat with someone who gets it!

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In June 6, 7 and 8th I will be facilitating a Narrative Healing for your Queer Journey of Loss workshop at the Camp Widow conference. For more information about this event go to Events. I will also be performing as a very angry, unapologetic queer superhero. Any guesses who? lol