Hello mister government sir I am Queer and proud and I am not afraid.

This bootlicker scare tactic shit didn’t work on me as a Gay child growing up in the 1980s; it didn’t work on me as a street kid watching my community die around me in the 1990s; it didn’t do anything but radicalize me in the 2000s; and it sure as hell isn’t going to work on me or any of my friends and family now, a quarter of a century later.

I am exhausted but you will have to kill me to ever shut me up. And I promise you, then the Queer and Trans voices will just get louder. There is simply no closet big enough. You cannot kill us all. There have always been LGBTQ+ people and there ALWAYS will be.

And to my sweet community, I see you. I am here with you and I’m so sorry this is still happening. I will always fight for you. For us. For our love. ❤️ Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing changes today. I still believe in us — but man, it has been cool to have a few years where it felt like this country cares about me and my family.

Life is never entirely good or bad. I am old enough now to know that it is always both, and that politics and human rights are two sides of the same swinging pendulum.

I don’t know what else to say today and have no idea what is coming for us but I hope we will all choose to find ways of loving one another through this next part.

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