UPDATE: 🌈✨
An article detailing the effort behind Lorain’s conversion therapy ban that passed last night! So thankful to ALL who helped make this possible! Another article from a different news outlet will be out tomorrow! 👀
Reporter:
@thepenbyben
I’m a gay, non-binary, activist who has multiple mental health issues including social anxiety who is pushing through to enact social change through kindness and action!
If you want, follow me to be a part of the loving journey! Thank you! 💙🌈
(June 4th,
#Pride
In CLE)
For anyone new!
Hi, I’m Brandon West, & I’m doing a little something called activism, my activism includes—
Safe water, LGBTQIA+ rights, prison reform, & more! I’m a kindness warrior & I want you all to be a part of the journey with me!
(Me speaking at a March for Unity)
Got up at 5:30 AM, headed to the polls, and patiently waited for their doors to open. Casted my vote inside, a resounding NO on Issue 1! It's not about political left or right, it's about safeguarding Ohio's democracy. Together, let's ensure its preservation! 🗳️🩵
#VoteNoOnIssue1
I’ve been battling demons so I haven’t been able to say hi.
Today I was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. Permanent damage, the reasons unknown. But you know what? Life is too short, mine included, so I went to a park and climbed this rope thing.
And yet I smile. 😁
I have a HUGE announcement to make!
Yesterday I made a post about contacting my mayor about declaring a state of emergency on childhood trauma. Well—
I got an email, & I’m going to make plans to meet him to discuss it further! He said he plans on making a resolution for it! 😱
I had attempted to take my life today. I'm really wary to tell you this but I'm doing so to tell you all that YOU MATTER.
I took a large dose of my insulin, but thankfully, I failed. It got close... But long story short I'm feeling better now. PLEASE remember, you're LOVED! 💙🥲
Good morning! Today’s my birthday and I wanted to let you all know how thankful I am! Truly I wouldn’t be alive today if you all weren’t in my life, either recently or since the start! 🎉
You all got this today, love you ALL and I wish you the best day today! 🩵🤗
Liver biopsy done! Twilight anesthesia so I was awake but WOW!! Only felt the initial poke!
Hoping for results that will shed some light on all this! I ain’t backing down yet! 🥰
Today is my birthday… Honestly I didn’t think I’d be here, multiple times I have tried & thankfully failed at taking my own life.
Now it’s my mission to do whatever I can to spread kindness, create social change, and be there for others.
I’m here for you! 💙🫂
Small 🧵
(1/6)
A “Christian” website raised $520k for the Kenosha killer in 30 days.
We've been campaigning to get underserved communities clean water since 2018 and we're only $45k away from our goal.
Please RT or consider donating.
#WaterThePlanet
Good morning! Some may recall that I haven’t gotten my drivers license because of crippling anxiety among other things. Well, nearly three years of activism has healed most of that anxiety and I’m going to take my temp test today!! Last time I did, I failed four times! 😂🩵🩵
This is me in Delaware county, Ohio, co-hosting an event to end racism and to fight peacefully for unity, this March! This
#TrumpRally
? Only wants division and hate… We ALL know that…
I PASSED MY TEMPS!!! And drove home giving those a mini panic attack but yeah! 🤣😂
The confidence is all thanks to you folks!!! My heart is racing! 😂☺️🩵🩵
You have kept me on this Earth, even if it gets hard, nearly and often disastrous. You’ve been my rock, my friend, and my family this whole time even when it felt like I didn’t have any of that.
Thank you for keeping me here. And Happy Holidays! 🫂🥹🩵🎄
(Pic from months ago)
GREAT NEWS! 🤩
Didn’t find any cirrhosis despite previous imaging showing it! There are autoimmune markers that seem to be unknown right now. There’s mild inflammation of the ducts and pretty mild fibrosis. Other than that, GREAT NEWS! Thank you all for thinking of me, it worked!
Liver biopsy done! Twilight anesthesia so I was awake but WOW!! Only felt the initial poke!
Hoping for results that will shed some light on all this! I ain’t backing down yet! 🥰
I’ve decided after thinking long and hard that I will be running for city council in Lorain, as an activist, not a politician. My community is my passion and I believe that I can further help and develop it this way.
#LorainProud
Hope everyone’s having a great night! I’m so grateful and happy I’m staying over at a friend’s place because I KNOW my mother is drunk at home and growing up with that makes it such a traumatic experience for me. So I’m having a decent time! Hope you all are too! Lovesss!! 🩵
It’s been awhile since I’ve said hi! July has been unexpectedly overly busy, which is good! I’m getting some stuff done regarding activism which I’m excited about but I miss you all! Here’s me sending care to you all on these uncertain days. Again, always here if you need me! 💙
Hi everyone!! Guess what!? I didn’t pass the written portion of my temp test! And you know what? That’s A-OKAY!! I’m gonna ACE it on Saturday (If they’re open, I have to check 😂)
I didn’t fail, I am just learning so I gotta be patient! YOU ALL MADE ME FEEL CONFIDENT! THANK YOU!
Good morning! Some may recall that I haven’t gotten my drivers license because of crippling anxiety among other things. Well, nearly three years of activism has healed most of that anxiety and I’m going to take my temp test today!! Last time I did, I failed four times! 😂🩵🩵
Words can hurt. I’ve heard words today in my personal life that had hurt me, it’s been said to me a lot in the past.
Just please know, the reason I’m sharing this is because you MATTER, you are incredible! Words hurt, but with support, it can feel better.
Always here for you!🫂
I’ve always been seen as a monster by my family… They never loved me anyway. (excluding my brother)
You all showed me that even a “monster” can be loved. Thank you for years of friendship, I’ll never forget it. ❤️🩹
Tomorrow is the day I have the meeting with my Mayor of Lorain about prohibiting and condemning conversion therapy! We need to protect our
#LGBTQIA
+ youth from this dangerous “practice”… even if it’s city to city! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#FreshResists
I’ve just been thinking how amazing my time has been here.. I’ve met incredible people, I’ve had the BEST opportunities happen to me.
I’ve cried happily, I’ve cried sadly, but yet you all cheer me up. Thank you! Here’s a throwback to my first profile picture of me. Love you all!
#MakeADogsDay
! This is our Sadie, she’s a beautiful girl who gives LOTS and lots of love to us! We adopted her so gladly. She was about to be euthanized due to no space in the shelter so we rushed in and got her!
Love you Sadie! 💙😘🐾
#DemVoice1
Vote, vote, vote in
#Ohio
today! I’m going to my polling location right now to vote! It’s incredibly important! Hello everyone, wishing you all a great day today!
Life is fragile, online and in real life. If I disappear, for whatever reason. Know that I’ll miss you all so much!
I know I’ve wanted to accomplish so much more, and I still am trying to but know that I’ve done a lot that I’ve wanted to do! I’m grateful for you coming along! 🩵
The Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse has raised millions.
We've been helping Americans get clean water for four years and still can't reach $300k. We're only $14,897 away from the goal.
Please consider donating and sharing.
#WaterThePlanet
I feel like Twitter has an outcasted activist community… one simple post about MTG & the post goes wild. One intricate post from a lesser known activist & sometimes barely anything. 🙁
Those who stick around to support me & other activists, you are literal hero’s. Thank you! 💙
Just a young activist getting ready for Ohio’s
#DayOfEmpathy
!
Ready to kick hate where it hurts, spread love, and talk about some much needed reforms!
Love you folks! I’ll be on and off today but I’ll share pictures/videos of the event! 💙🤗
Just saying hello and wishing everyone a fantastic day! 💙
Thank you all again for believing in me and my work as an activist, I believe in all of you too, achieve your dreams! 🤩
It's the last day of Black History Month and we failed at reaching our goal. Please consider donating and sharing this
#WaterThePlanet
campaign. We're so close to the finish line.
#AmericaHasAWaterCrisis
#HumanRights
are
#HumanRights
, if you don't think the African American, LGBTQIA+, or ANY minority isn't a part of
#HumanRights
then you are wrong. They are Human, they love who want to love no matter where they came from or how they are born because, they are HUMAN.
#DemVoice1
I woke excited & eager yet humble & thankful to all who made this possible by supporting me!
Here’s
@YourChronicle
’s article about me & the resolution I passed in Lorain,
#Ohio
, to urge Gov.
@MikeDeWine
to declare a state of emergency on childhood trauma.
The resolution proposed to my city of Lorain’s Mayor to urge the governor of Ohio to declare a state of emergency on childhood trauma had its third reading tonight—
Passed unanimously! Here’s the signatures of the president of council, clerk of council, and the Mayor!
I JUST got accepted into my local community college, LCCC!!! I’m so excited to start my education journey!! Planning on an Associate of Arts degree which will help me advocate better and open up bigger opportunities!
Thank you all so much for still supporting me!! 😭🥰🫂
Last night I nearly died.
I’m so grateful to my brother and paramedics who came to my aid. My blood sugar went critically low as I slept. I was out for a couple hours or so and when I regained consciousness. I was really confused and I couldn’t feel a thing. Life is short. 🩵
Look at what I got in the mail today! It's a shirt from
@AllTransLivesM1
on her store
It's GREAT and AMAZING! I suggest you pay her store a visit online! 👆👆👆
It feels great, fits great and I am super excited to wear the message all around!
Look at who went voting yesterday! & you can too! There’s early voting today! Tomorrow is actually Election Day in
#Ohio
!
Please go out there to vote! Get your grandparents, your parents & your siblings! Thank you, good morning, & have a WONDERFUL voting day today & tomorrow! 💙
STATEMENT—💙
I have sadly terminated my campaign due to mental and physical struggles on top of not having the needed signatures. To all who worked with me, believed in me, and helped me, thank you! I will FOREVER be grateful and will take the time I need to take care of myself!
Here’s the announcement everyone! I’m SO EXCITED! 🤭😅
I’m writing a book, a book about social change through kindness! But I want to involve you all in the process of creation!
I’d love to hear ideas & even what YOU’D want to know! It’s gonna be OUR project!
#Democracy
lives within all of us.
Being born on this Earth, should, automatically GRANT you the rights every other Human Being has regardless of how you were born or who you love. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#pride
shows this even more and how much we need to continue to LOVE, not HATE.
#DemVoice1
Good morning everyone! 💙💙💙
My time being here on Twitter has really changed my life. Before, I felt like a shell, everything inside it.
You all broke that shell open and made me feel SO welcomed.
THANK you, every single one of you. 💙🥲
#grateful
#SaturdayVibes
I know I’m sick. I know some doctors have told me I might have a shorter than usual lifespan.
But… I know I have a life worth living, even if it could be shorter. Nothing’s etched into stone.
My wish? For you all to live in the moment.
My heart is broken to hear about the Colorado Springs shooting… as if the
#LGBTQIA
+ community needs any more hate, violence, and bigotry…
Sick to my stomach… My DMs are open if anyone needs to express how they feel right now, this is terrible… 🫂🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I have social anxiety & other mental illnesses, yet here I am. Almost 2 years advocating & we (I like to say we because you all support me!) passed a resolution in my city of Lorain to urge the governor of Ohio to declare a state of emergency on childhood trauma on June 20th.
Me during the “Bans Off Our Bodies” event in Cleveland, OH! I got to see
@CherylForOhio
for a brief second!
The energy was like no other! I got to hear from abortion providers, activists, doctors and even senators!
#ReproductiveRights
#BansOffOurBodies
More pictures below!
This was not the world I wanted.. but it was the one I was born into. This country, our home, ripped apart… since the beginning.
I thought— I KNOW it can change, the road ahead of course will be hard, but I’m ready to keep fighting for what’s right.
Are you with me? 💙
EXCITING NEWS: ✨🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
My city of Lorain’s Mayor, Jack Bradley, has agreed to meet with me to discuss prohibiting and condemning conversion therapy within Lorain! Still discussing the best date and time for a meeting with his Executive Assistant! Will update!
#LGBTQIA
#Ohio
Oh boy!!! Lol! Here’s my special
#announcement
, I did it in video form and I hope none of you find myself weird lol! Sorry, never have done anything like this!
Anyway thank you so much and oh no I just noticed something was on my tooth ugh omg lol sorry!
Love you all!! 💙✨☀️
I feel bad and guilty that I did that because honestly, how could I after I have you all in my life and caring friends and just... everything else.
Please know I love you, I care about you, and even though I had attempted, you can ALWAYS talk to me.
#LOVEYOURSELF
!!!!!! 💙🫂
I made this video for
@Activist_AdaJ
for ALWAYS supporting me & motivating me! She even motivated me to actually POST it even! She’s an amazing & an incredible friend, being, & to top it all off an activist for the
#LGBTQIA
+ Community!
Couldn’t have done this without you, Ada!
All children deserve a great Christmas.
@RandyRainbow
humbly asking you to extend your kindness this Holiday Season to help a family in need. Please support and share our mission for Richmond youth.
#Christmas
#ToyDrive
This was me leaving my appointment earlier. Confident as fu— and you know why? Because you all just breathe confidence and I’m HERE for it! ❤️🔥😊
You’re all INCREDIBLE!! Don’t stop being awesome!!!!! 🙌💯
I had messaged my WONDERFUL, CARING, and SPECIAL, friend
@showgirlcf
, during the mess of it all and she helped me feel so... SO much better.. More than I can even express and I can't ever and I mean ever thank her enough for helping me through a tough time.
I’m lucky to be alive. Asthma, type 1 diabetes, chronic pain, multiple medical close calls, some attempts at suicide, and many more things that have tried to end my life.
If I can do this, you can. If I’m meant to be here, so are you. Love yourself, even just for today. 🩵
A real gut punch is when social security tells you ALL your problems both mentally and physically are “not preventing you to work.”
BS!!! Truly so invalidating and was NOT the mail I needed to end the year off…
THIS is the type of Ohioan 🔥 we NEED!
When I see him there, fighting for what’s right & speaking the truth, I see my home of Ohio in him, the good kind of Ohio that is.
NOT the Jim Jordan kind.
Let’s support
@TimRyan
and
@Sites4Congress
!
#DemVoice1
Today is not only Toni Morrison’s birthday but in Ohio it’s a holiday called Toni Morrison Day made in her honor. She’s someone I look up to, knowing she is from Lorain gives me hope that I can too create positive change and encourage others to do so like she has done for me. 💙
.
@YourChronicle
’s article about my City Council run here in Lorain! So very grateful, excited, and ready to help and represent my community further! Thank you all for believing in me!
“My community is my passion”
#Lorain
#LorainProud
Going to a food drive tomorrow, and unfortunately not to volunteer… It takes a lot to admit you have a food insecurity both mentally and in a physical sense. But we have to, I’ll try and document how it goes so maybe if you are struggling it’ll help you feel comfortable! 💙
Here’s the video I promised all of you for reaching 10K friends! 🎉💙
I care SO much about you all, everyone here means so, SO much to me! Thank you so much for being here, new or familiar, I love you! 🫂
#ThankYou
#appreciation
#tuesdaymotivations
For
#JuneTeenth2021
I will be celebrating by donating to
#BlackOwnedBusiness
, having a cookout, & to educate others about Juneteenth.
It is dire to recognize that Juneteenth is IMPORTANT to all of America, we must never forget the suffering caused by white supremacy.
#DemVoice1
Okay! I had to! This is a video to all my AMAZING folks here! 😭🥲💙🫂
Love you all from the bottom of my heart!!! I mean it, sincerely! Keep being awesome, keep being YOU! 💙✨
#ForeverGrateful
#KindnessIsPrecious
The Freedom Convoy truckers against vaccines raised $9 million.
We've been helping Americans get clean water for four years and still can't reach $300k. We're only $15,077 away from the goal.
Please consider donating and sharing.
#WaterThePlanet
If 1k folks donated just $16 we could reach our
#WaterThePlanet
campaign goal and not only help but give hope to over 1k families this Black History Month!!
If you kindly could, donate! Let's reach that goal, let's help families in need!💙🚰
For some of you, you have recently followed me! And for many others you have been following me. I want to say how thankful I am for you all on this journey! I’ve been on Twitter and advocating since October 2020 and we have made huge strides towards compassionate change! (1/4)
✨IT’S OFFICIAL—
The meeting has been set up to further discuss declaring a state of emergency on childhood trauma with my Mayor!
April 12th, Tuesday!
I’m crying because I have always wanted to make a positive & kind impact on others, thank you all for believing in me! 💙
Oh my goodness, look at my AMAZING friend’s moves,
@DoctorLordBasil
!!! Love it so much!!! Good job, Anon!!! You’re an incredible person to walk this Earth, too kind as well! ✨💙
#TikTok
This video was taken yesterday at Lorain’s city hall while they were passing the resolution I had proposed!
The kind lady who was speaking was Council at Large, Mary Springowski, about me and the resolution! I’m still so touched!
(Everyone was so supportive!)
I’m an activist.
I’m a kindness warrior.
I’m a campaign organizer.
I’m an animal rights advocate.
I’m Brandon West, I’m fighting for a better world, a better Ohio. If you want to support me, join the kindness movement by following me to help amplify my activism!
Thank you! 💙
Matthew Shepard will always have a place in my heart, soul, & mind. 🤍✨
The horrific torture he endured will never leave my mind... I continue to fight for equality & against hate... Mostly because of him.
He's a hero of mine, a gentle soul taken by hate.
#DemVoice1
#EraseHate
Had a great time with
@nanwhaley
and a bunch of awesome folk who truly care about their community. I had spoken to her about her opinion on declaring a state of emergency on childhood trauma and the whole event was energetic and fun! Get out to VOTE,
#Ohio
!
Getting ready for
#Pride
but there’s something I’d like to say!
I NEED YOU! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💙
There’s a lot going on in the world and below this tweet will be something important that regards the need for community to come *together!* Love you all! ⬇️
Things are getting so hard, really hard. And yes, I’ve been crying daily and there’s no shame in that. Between family issues, financial issues, my campaign, and community issues here… it’s getting to me… I honestly don’t know what to do. I love you all, thank you. 💙
For those who are experiencing freezing temperatures PLEASE think of your pets as well!
If you're going to walk your dog, put a dog-jacket on them & some little boots for their feet if you have any, don't stay out long!!! Have play time inside instead also! THANK YOU! 🐾💙
I love my community on here, there's literally no hate and only the want for a loving and community better for ALL, no matter who they love or how they were born.
You folks, as amazingly as I can put this, ROCK! 💙✌️
Today is my birthday! I’m so grateful to be here and to witness this AMAZING kind community that we’ve built together! If it weren’t for any of you, I wouldn’t be here today! 💙
Let’s give back to our communities, below will be some fundraisers, orgs, and more to share/donate!
"Hope will never be silent"
-Harvey Milk
The White House lit up in Rainbow, June 26th 2015.
How about
#Pride2021
? The WHOLE month, Rainbow House! I like that idea for
#pride
, what about you? 🏳️🌈🏠
#DemVoice1
#RainbowHouse
It’s always better to be loving than hating.
Better caring than cruel.
Better accepting than discriminating.
Be the better, do the better! Love will always win!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#DemVoice1
#LGBTQIA
#LoveAlwaysWins