Our America: Who I’m Meant to Be 2022 | Full Episode

“Our America: Who I am Meant To Be” explores the lives of a number of the superb individuals who make up this group. This particular manufacturing by ABC Owned Tv Stations and ABC Localish Studios brings to life the challenges of being LGBTQIA+ and the way race, faith, class, gender and sexuality all outline who we’re.

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Preserve studying to satisfy every particular person featured in “Our America: Who I am Meant To Be.”

Filipino comic Wealthy Kiamco could also be a homosexual man in New York, however his life is not simply outlined by his sexuality. Right now he can joke about his life experiences, a lot of which had been painful after they occurred. That features a level in his profession the place he stopped doing comedy as a result of individuals shouted him down calling him a homosexual slur whereas on stage.

Houston transgender advocate Eden Torres resides as her genuine self. She is capturing the essence of who individuals are supposed to be, taking pictures that doc the ache, pleasure and greatness of being a part of the LGBTQIA+ group. She shares her journey to womanhood and the way life’s challenges paved the way in which for her to be who she is as we speak.

For many individuals, the concept of being nonbinary is a tough idea to know. For Ashante Shomari, it’s who they’re meant to be. Right now, they don’t establish as both feminine or male however as one particular person on a journey to discover their place within the LGBTQIA+ group and the world. Their journey comes with challenges, together with the ignorance of others.

For Fresno Fireplace Chief Kerri Donis, being a mom and spouse was the straightforward half — discovering her place as a lady in a male-dominated discipline in a extra conservative group was a problem. An opportunity interplay become a profession that led her to the highest of her discipline.

When many individuals consider Atlantic Metropolis’s notorious boardwalk, the very last thing they might take into consideration is the LGBTQIA+ group. However there may be historical past right here, and Judah-Abijah Dorrington desires to have fun that historical past and put it up for sale. Dorrington is the town’s LGBTQ program coordinator. She is bringing her personal expertise together with her to this place, proving {that a} Black lady in her 60s is a pressure to be reckoned with.

There’s a notion of what it means to be LGBTQIA+, what it means to be Muslim and what it means to be an immigrant from Afghanistan. These are issues that Harris Mojadedi offers with on daily basis. Mojadedi isn’t becoming into these stereotypes however celebrating them as an out homosexual man. He lives within the San Francisco Bay Space and is already making a reputation for himself as the primary homosexual Afghani-American elected to public workplace.

Jeff Kawakami is a private chef in Hollywood. Kawakami is mixed-race and homosexual. His father is Japanese-American, born in an internment camp throughout World Struggle II, whereas his mom’s household is white and from the Midwest. Kawakami struggles along with his identification and “passing” as white whereas additionally being happy with his Asian-American roots. He celebrates being happy with himself by the meals he makes.

Faith is one thing that always divides the LGBTQIA+ group. For Reverend Wand Floyd, Pastor Paully Adams and Rabbi Sandra Lawson, religion is greater than the constructing the place they worship. It’s about their private journey to know their place in faith whereas being Black in North Carolina. They’re embracing their faith and instructing others how they, too, may be out and non secular.

SEE MORE: Watch final 12 months’s episode of “Who I am Meant to Be”