Steven LaChance Blog

Lately, I’ve caught myself thinking about the state of the world — all the noise, all the hate, all the division. It feels like everywhere you turn, people are shouting over each other, villainizing anyone who’s different from them. It’s exhausting. And honestly, it makes me wonder… when does it end? When do we finally move past all of this and become something better?

I guess my hope is that after this time of anger and fear, things will shift. Maybe the roles we play in this world can transform into something softer — something kinder and more loving. Maybe after figures like Trump are gone — when the loudest voices of hate and division have faded — the world will have a chance to be less corrupt. Maybe then, all people — no matter who they are or who they love — will finally be treated as equals.

It might sound idealistic, but I don’t think I’m alone in hoping for that. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Change takes time, and sometimes it feels impossibly slow, especially for people in the LGBTQ+ community who’ve been fighting for basic rights and respect for decades. But there’s something powerful in holding on to hope. Harvey Milk said it best: “Hope will never be silent.”

Of course, real change doesn’t come from waiting around for bad people to disappear. It comes from us — from everyday people choosing to be better, choosing to love louder than hate, and choosing to listen instead of judge. James Baldwin once wrote, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” We have to face the ugliness in the world if we want to move past it.

That starts with empathy. It starts with seeing people for who they really are, not for who we’ve been told to fear. Brené Brown said, “People are hard to hate close up. Move in.” And I think that’s true for all of us — but especially for those in the LGBTQ+ community, who’ve been told for so long to hide who they are. RuPaul once said, “When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.” That bravery inspires me.

In the end, I don’t think the future is just about politics or power. It’s about connection. It’s about choosing kindness over cruelty, love over division, and understanding over fear.

Maybe the world won’t change overnight. Maybe we’ll always have loud voices trying to divide us. But like Desmond Tutu once said, “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

So that’s my hope — that after all the noise dies down, after the hate loses its grip, we’ll be left with something better. A world where people are free to be who they are. A world that’s softer, kinder, and finally, finally equal.