Pressing issuesDoughty then directed questions to individual panelists. Rupert-Gordon was asked what she and NCLR thought were the most pressing issues and concerns for LBT women now."We have to be inclusive and we have to be intersectional, that is the only way any of this works," she said. "Absolutely every issue is an LGBTQ issue.
One of the issues that we are paying particular attention to right now is the foster care system."Rupert-Gordon feels that particular attention must be paid to how children are taken away from their families.
She said this most likely happens to LGBTQ people and LGBTQ women of color. "In our current foster care system, poverty is often confused with neglect," she said.