The Weight of Pride: Chronic Illness, Coming Out, and Choosing to Show Up Anyway┃Steph Cave

On this episode of Chasing Glass, I sit down with Steph Cave, board president of Athens Pride and Queer Collective, for one of the most honest conversations we've had on the show. Steph opens up about living with lupus, Hashimoto's, and complex PTSD, what it actually took to come out in a rural town fifteen years ago, and their time as a protest medic during the BLM protests. We talk about grief, chronic illness, mental health, and what it really costs to build the queer community you needed but never had. This is a conversation about identity, resilience, and choosing to show up for people even when it costs you.