For anyone else who was wondering, the 2 in LGBTQ2 apparently stands for "two-spirit", which is:
a term used to broadly capture concepts traditional to many Indigenous cultures. It is a culturally-specific identity used by some Indigenous people to indicate a person whose gender identity, spiritual identity and/or sexual orientation comprises both male and female spirits.
First time I've ever heard of either term, but I'm not Canadian!
More people than you might expect don't find it easy to conceive. That wasn't my experience (if anything it was "too quick") but I think sometimes people are asking you to hope/pray or whatever that they can make it happen.
I wonder if it has something to do with "frogs" in bricks - frogs being the concave indentation in the surface of a brick. "Stitching" kind of works with masonry as well...
Two people close to me have gone from "normal" to suicidal and back again in the last 6 years, for different reasons and at different times. Thankfully they are both stable and enjoying their lives now.
If you've not witnessed anything like that, count yourself lucky. I remember talking to people about suicide when I was younger and couldn't understand how anyone could get to that place until I saw someone I know really well go through a complete mental breakdown.
I think this is because the US doesn't like to be held to any standards that aren't under its complete control. They are going to have to get used to that as their share of global power wanes
Six inches?