Let us dream and conjure, collectively, Black queer futures without prisons and police, without gender-based violence, and let those imaginings be the blueprint for freedom.
Now, 28 and transitioning, I look back on the RHPS subculture as amateur, 101, sometimes embraced by sexually active theater geek kids who have not necessarily thought deeply about their gender or what it means to bend it, playing queer parts without experiencing the social consequences of queerness outside that safe explorative space.
States decided upon policies affecting women, young people, and the queer community without consulting them.
It was nice to have a space where you could be with other queer people without any of those expectations.
Their resource center is the only place for gay Kenyans to read queer media without worrying that someone might catch them out in public.
I think it's great that movies can incorporate queer elements without it being the main draw or focal point of the film or its marketing.
Often, your local gay bar or club is the only public place you can party as a queer person without the fear of being judged or threatened for simply being yourself.
And in a world where we're gunned down and targeted based on that fact, one where fighting for our basic right to express our partnerships and unions became a hellish political battle, and one where our transgender and gender nonconforming peers are routinely denied basic human dignities, being lesbian, gay, bi, trans, and queer is without a doubt a political act.
Because I think there are people who are interested in performance and all in gender theory, and I think that there Schuyler is, because it's a performance of thought and a performance of body and nature, and also one in queer history, without even making much of it.
