Rachel Wells – Rainbow Resilience: Overcoming LGBT Performer’s Community Challenges

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Rachel Wells – Rainbow Resilience: Overcoming LGBT Performer’s Community Challenges The LGBTQ+ community within the adult performance industry face many challenges in and outside of their work. Marginalization, houselessness , isolation, suicide, abuse, and threats of outing are commonplace. Within the industry, many performers may feel a sense of idealization and/or devaluation, both of which are forms of fetishization. This seminar discusses and normalizes difficult feelings while discussing individual and community resources to heal these wounds.