User:Immi Thrax

Hey, y'all! I'm Immi Thrax, one of your administrators here at the LGBTQIA+ Wiki.

At my home wiki, Wookieepedia, I founded WookieeProject: Pride to create and improve articles about LGBTQ+ characters and the LGBTQIA+ people who create Star Wars.

I've been a social worker for several years, and I've been involved in various forms of activism and advocacy going back several years before that. I was semi-closeted throughout middle and high school, only out to friends and immediate family, but I came out completely after the Pulse tragedy. We still have quite a ways to go in the U.S. and far to go in other countries, but it's amazing how much has changed just in my lifetime. For instance: ... Among other things.
 * A Nickelodeon special educated kids like me at the peak of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
 * Teens didn't come out at school, but some of us got outed, and clubs didn't exist
 * "Gender"? We didn't know her (yet!)
 * "Defense of Marriage Act" and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
 * Adults having consensual sex in private was illegal if it wasn't strictly P-in-V
 * Legal recognition and protections for relationships didn't exist, but hey, you could have a "commitment ceremony"