Leonard Pitts: LGBTQ kids, raise your voices and let the haters hear you

Cowards stick their fingers in their ears rather than face realities they can’t deal with.

(Demetrius Freeman | Special to The Tribune) Maddie Hall, 25, center, chants with current and former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the LGBTQ+ community, and supporters protest at Lincoln Square across from the Latter-day Saints temple in Manhattan on Saturday, March 7, 2020. BYU reinstated policies in its student handbook that prohibit "homosexual behavior."

| Feb. 13, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

Leonard Pitts: LGBTQ kids, raise your voices and let the haters hear you

Cowards stick their fingers in their ears rather than face realities they can’t deal with.

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