2022 GA Senate race: on Families & Children

Chase Oliver: Support LGBTQ kids; stop demonizing LGBTQ people

A: I support the Equality Act. But at the end of the day, what we need to be doing is to stop demonizing LGBTQ people. I hear from folks like [GOP Senate nominee] Herschel Walker about how terrible LGBTQ people are; about how they're destroying our children. The fact is, I was a gay child at one time, and I was thankful that I had supportive teachers & supportive people in my life that could help me as I was growing up. I don't want to do away with that. But the reality is that we have far too many people looking to demonize LGBTQ people and I am not one who's going to stand for that. I support the Equality Act but the best way for me to be a good representative as an LGBTQ person is to get up, do the work, and just be like everybody else. Because that's what LGBTQ people are--we just love different people. There's nothing inherently wrong with us.