after all of these years, no one bothered to bring up William Dorsey Swann, an african-american born into slavery, who happened to be the first known person to self identify as the "queen-of-drag" in the united states and also lead a gay resistance group in the 1900s.
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage
it's pride month. and I am a queer palestinian that has known loved and lost queer friends in Palestine and Lebanon.
pride is about celebrating what we are when the world silences us. but they don't get to. they have been silenced not for their sexuality but because their +