A detail that always stuck with me from the 2018 NYT profile on @jeremyoharris, is that growing up, his drama teacher urged him to read every @PulitzerPrizes winning play. 🧵
It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.
In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
From the U.S. Holocaust Museum:
"What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process."
Welp.
just saw someone say baseball is boring and it brings me no pleasure to report that no it is not. it is actually very fun to sit there and drink a beer and eat a hot dog and yell at guys who are far away
-cis straight white airplane pilot
-cis straight white helicopter pilot
-cis straight white air traffic controller
-cis straight white FAA administrator fired by cis straight white president and cis straight white billionaire
The University of Delaware community is deeply saddened to share the loss of Raymond (Ray) Patt, a fifth-year doctoral student in the College of Education and Human Development, Graduate College.
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