Creating exclusive physical spaces is essential for the queer community to connect and feel safe.

“Creating your own spaces with your community is very important. I built relationships with all of these club owners that allow me to create these spaces where me and the girls and the guys and the gays of New Orleans would get together and we would throw down.”

Mixed-race identity involves navigating complex social expectations and acknowledging personal privilege while ultimately defining oneself through one's own chosen truth.

“I think it's um important for me to do that because I am a black man, but I have privileges other black men might not or don't have at all.”

She believes that a person's heritage remains valid regardless of their DNA test results or fluency in their ancestral language.

“just because like you're a percentage of something doesn't mean that you have to forget what your feelings to embrace that I love when people Embrace who they are”

He believes that the term 'anti-semitic' is being misused to stifle criticism of Israel and obscure the history of indigenous Semitic peoples.

“It's the Palestinians this is why DNA tests are not allowed in Israel because you find out these people these people are not indigenous to the Middle East at all”