{"id":14955,"date":"2015-02-24T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/icymi-young-immigrant-delivers-powerful-speech-on-racism\/"},"modified":"2015-02-24T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T19:10:17","slug":"icymi-young-immigrant-delivers-powerful-speech-on-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/icymi-young-immigrant-delivers-powerful-speech-on-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Young Immigrant Delivers Powerful Speech on Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ICYMI: Young Immigrant Delivers Powerful Speech on Racism<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/GiovanniBlairMcKenzie_blog263.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        At HRC Foundation&rsquo;s second annual Time to THRIVE conference, HRC Foundation youth ambassador Giovanni Blair McKenzie spoke about his experiences with racism and homophobia as an LGBTQ youth of color growing up in Jamaica and in Portland.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/icymi-young-immigrant-delivers-powerful-speech-on-racism?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/icymi-young-immigrant-delivers-powerful-speech-on-racism?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICYMI: Young Immigrant Delivers Powerful Speech on Racism At HRC Foundation&rsquo;s second annual Time to THRIVE conference, HRC Foundation youth ambassador Giovanni Blair McKenzie spoke about his experiences with racism and homophobia as an LGBTQ youth of color growing up in Jamaica and in Portland. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/icymi-young-immigrant-delivers-powerful-speech-on-racism?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/icymi-young-immigrant-delivers-powerful-speech-on-racism?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Young Immigrant Delivers Powerful Speech on Racism - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/icymi-young-immigrant-delivers-powerful-speech-on-racism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ICYMI: Young Immigrant Delivers Powerful Speech on Racism - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ICYMI: Young Immigrant Delivers Powerful Speech on Racism At HRC Foundation&rsquo;s second annual Time to THRIVE conference, HRC Foundation youth ambassador Giovanni Blair McKenzie spoke about his experiences with racism and homophobia as an LGBTQ youth of color growing up in Jamaica and in Portland. 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