Kristiana Rista

Just a college student hoping that one day I might do something that could have a positive and important impact on the world. Even if I am forgotten when I die.

[MARC REBILLET @marcrebillet]

Happy 4th guys

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Today marks the birthday of the late, great Elizabeth Taylor. As well as being a bonafide big screen legend, the actress was also a life-long ally of the LGBTQ+ community.

In the 1980s, she was one of the first major celebrities to speak publicly about AIDS and even founded the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991 to raise millions for AIDS-related research.

In 2000, Taylor accepted the Vanguard Award from GLAAD for her incredible allyship. “It’s the first award I’ve received from a gay organisation, and I’m honoured and just tickled pink,” she said at the ceremony, her delivery making the live audience howl with laughter.

“But to be serious, I did not become an activist to win awards,” she continued. “I became an activist to try to protect people. I could not sit silently by just doing nothing. I started my activism in the 80s when a new disease emerged that was quickly and inexplicably killing people.”

She continued by speaking about the “terrible discrimination and prejudice” that came with it. “Suddenly, gay people stopped being human beings and started becoming the enemy,” Taylor said. “I knew that somebody had to do something. For god sakes! Our president didn’t even utter the word ‘AIDS’ for years into the epidemic. So I got involved.”

She went on to share love for all the gay people in her life, of which there had been many.

“There is no gay agenda; it’s a human agenda,” she said.

“All of us should be treated the same, and GLAAD knows that. Why Shouldn’t gay people be allowed to marry? Those against gay marriages says marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that that doesn’t always work,” she said, cheekily referencing her many public marriages and divorces.

“I feel that any home where there is love constitutes a family, and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children,” she said. “Why shouldn’t gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love?”

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It took me a long time to realize that not everyone has to argue/negotiate/shame their brain into doing routine household tasks.

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-the Great Recession
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but what will finally kill it? Trump’s tariffs

[Ego 🍔 @TrussEgo]

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