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lgbtq-history: Marsha P. Johnson A leader of the Stonewall Riots. According to several eyewitnesses, Marsha was the one who “really started it”. She was “in the middle of the whole thing, screaming and yelling and throwing rocks and almost like Molly Pitcher in the Revolution or something” Dedicated her life to activism: Co-founded the Street Transvestite …

ALL THE DEAD BOYS LOOK LIKE ME

A poem by Latinx poet Loma, which they wrote in the aftermath of Orlando, expressing grief, outrage, frustration and love in the queer poc community. The piece connects the personal and the political, and puts the Orlando attack in context of the other forms of violence (recent and historic) that target the community.ALL THE DEAD …