![]() ![]() When it comes to national media, it’s not discussed a lot.”Īnd, the statistics don’t paint a positive picture for men in the LGBTQ community. “Especially within the LGBT community, people are really opening up because people are not talking about this. A lot of psychologists said that the reason people have been opening up is because I’ve been vulnerable,” Blake said. ![]() “They’ll start opening up to me, and that was unexpected. Blake, who is openly gay, also wants to raise awareness about sexual assault in the LGBTQ community - especially among men, who may be unwilling to talk about their experiences because of stigma. So far, he’s done this for more than 800 consecutive days, and he wants to give survivors an opportunity to share a piece of their own stories. “To me, it’s not wasted time.”īlake spends anywhere from four to eight hours a day walking up to complete strangers and asking them to sign his poster boards in support of sexual assault survivors. I’ve spent now, about 6,000 hours to get on a TV show for five minutes,” Blake said. The board he’ll be holding is one of almost 400 that he’s filled to near completion on a quest for visibility and a trip to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”. ![]() Look closer, and you’ll see it’s filled with wishes of good luck, messages of encouragement, poetry and more. The Arizona-based activist will likely be stocked up with Sharpie markers and he’ll be carrying a large poster board. Pass 49-year-old Ron Blake on the street and he’s hard to miss. ![]()
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