As we are still amid a global pandemic among other things (it seems every monthly column starts out this way!), it is becoming abundantly clear that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

With the roller coaster of vaccination outreach, COVID-19 variants, the continuing global climate crisis, supply-chain issues and the onslaught of anti-voting and anti-abortion rights legislation, it is disheartening to hear about more anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being passed, especially considering the many landmark victories we have celebrated in the recent years.