by Casey Leach, guest blogger Fun facts! 4.5% of adult Americans identified as LGBTQ+ with 5.1% of women identifying as LGBTQ+, compared with 3.9% of men in the US in 2017. While that number may sound small, if we were to look at a school whose population is 1,000 students – roughly 45 of those individuals are openly in the LGBTQ+ community. That’s a lot of rainbows! However, queer students have the highest rates of mental illnesses, specifically depression and anxiety, and