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Ash Beckham is a speaker, activist, and accidental advocate of the LGBT community.

Career

She has spoken to numerous conferences including TEDx and two of her talks were later featured on TED.com. Online videos of her TEDx talks “Coming Out of Your Closet” and "Owning Your Duality" and her Boulder Ignite speech “I am SO GAY” have gone viral with more than 10 million YouTube views.

Quotes

During her TEDx speech, she quoted

• "Sure, I’ll give you a hundred reasons why coming out of my closet was harder than coming out of yours, but here’s the thing: Hard is not relative. Hard is hard. Who can tell me that explaining to someone that you just declared bankruptcy is harder than telling someone you just cheated on them? Who can tell me that his coming out story is harder than telling your 5-year-old that you’re getting a divorce? There is no harder. There is just hard.

• "We need to stop ranking our hard against everyone else’s hard to make us feel better or worse about our closets and just commiserate on the fact that we all have hard".
• "If you gonna be real with someone, you've got to be ready for real in return"

Women in Red

Beckham was listed in the Ted Speaker Category by the Wikiproject Women In Red.

External Links

• Official website
• Ash Beckham at TED
  • We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open up
  • When to take a stand - and when to let it go
• Ash Beckham at Upworthy
• Ash Beckham on Twitter