Image by waldryano from Pixabay. Your sexuality is a result of your childhood abuse. You are only the person you are because your father was absent. If you had only had more male influence in your life, you would not be the person that you are, but it can be fixed. Perhaps you need God,…
Author: Eric Cody Bass
A 3L at Golden Gate University School of Law & the incoming Editor-in-Chief for GGU’s Race, Gender, Sexuality & Social Justice Law Journal. Being born and raised in rural Mississippi while being LGBTQ+ was an experience that has shaped not only my life, but my career, goals, and passion for advocacy work. I moved to the Bay Area in search of not only a career, but a community.
I have worked closely with nonprofit groups to enact the change I wish to see, having interned in summer of 2020 at the AIDS Legal Referral Panel & currently at the East Bay Community Law Center’s Clean Slate Program. Lifting up those who feel they have nowhere else to turn while trying to navigate the complexities of the American justice system is the foundation upon which my dreams are built. Together, there is always a way.