First Former Buddy Club President

[Image Description: The image has a cloudy red, orange, yellow, light green, medium blue, and light purple horizontally striped rainbow background with my First Former Buddy Club President logo in the bottom left corner. "LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2025" is in center-aligned turquoise text. "Notable People in the Disability Community Who Intersect into the LGBTQ+ Community" is in left-aligned dark purple text with an enlarged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple rainbow flag below. ] According to research from the Movement Advancement Project, an estimate of "3 to 5 million LGBTQ people live with one or more disabilities" (GLAAD 2025). Additionally, "nearly one in two LGBTQ+ teens in the US seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. 1 in 6 made an attempt" (The Trevor Project 2024). People in the LGBTQ+ community are at an increased risk for anxiety, depression, and attempting or dying by suicide due to the constant prejudice that ...

[Image Description: The image has a light purple background with my First Former Buddy Club President logo in the bottom left corner. "Disability Inclusive Language Explained" is in left-aligned dark purple text. There is a disability pride flag with black, green, light blue, white, yellow, red, black stripes (same order from top right corner to bottom left corner) center-aligned at the bottom of the image. ] I created this blog post to educate people about being aware of the language that they use and  how to use disability inclusive language. When encountering any individuals, it is common for people to assume what their abilities are and are not based on their appearance and other limited observations that are only snapshots; Not all disabilities are obvious though while some disabilities are more visible. All because a person does not appear to have obvious disabilities does not guarantee whether they are in the disability community or not. A person could have invisible d...