Last year, I flew to Washington, DC, to deliver a keynote speech at the Equality Convention of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBTQIA+ civil rights organization. While waiting for my turn to take the stage, I watched as Kelley Robinson, the organization’s new president — and the first Black queer woman to fill that role — took the microphone with her child on her hip and proceeded to fire up the hundreds of activists and advocates in the audience. With a few well-chosen wo...