To say that this election has been challenging, terrifying, hurtful, and ugly, is an understatement, but now that the results are in, where do we go from here? The election didn’t go the way I wanted it to last night, and I woke up this morning, still in a state of shock, disbelief, and sadness. Not just because my candidate lost, but because I fear that the progress the LGBTQ community has made, will be taken away and I will no longer have the protections and basic rights, l