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Politics

This Intersectional Group of Friends Asks You to #DoItForUs and Help Defeat Trump

This group of friends hopes to appeal to third-party voters to help get an ally in the White House when so much is at stake for people of color, women, queer people, and more...

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

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Tracy E. Gilchrist

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October 13 2016 7:26 PM EST

November 26 2024 1:04 AM EST

The stakes in this presidential election could not be higher for queer people, people of color, Muslims, and women, and that’s why this intersectional group of friends joined together to ask if you’d help defeat Republican candidate Donald Trump by voting for Hillary Clinton. “Do it for us,” they implore.

“We’re not famous. We’re just friends. Like, I’m your black friend, I’m your Latino friend, I’m your gay friend, I’m your Muslim friend, I’m your female friend, I’m your black, and gay, and female friend,” adding that they are scared of what Trump could bring to the White House.

Dalila Ali Rajah, Anam Syed, Tyler Lowell, Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Joshua Silverstein, Jill Bennett, and Lauren Neal are the friends appealing to third-party voters.

“If there’s a woman-hating, homophobic racist in the White House we’re the ones who are going to get the shit kicked out of us,” Joshua says in the video.

Tyler adds that he’s a Bernie (Sanders) guy, that the revolution is still happening, but as a group, they ask to please help vote Hillary Clinton, an ally, into the White House to help preserve marriage equality and a woman’s right to choose, among other things.

“We know that you’re progressive. We know that you want change and you want it now. We want those things too,” Jill says, before asking, “Do it for us.”