But it continues a narrative that queers don't do regular standup, and regular standup is no place for queers.
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Queers Against Pete released a joint press release about the letter with Queers Not Here For Mayor Pete, a group with a similar message.
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While some passersby may assume that the queers have already "left," Brooklyn and Leavitt insist that queers are still there—and will continue to be.
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Women. Queers. Not all women, and not all queers, obviously, but go on, I dare you — try being queer and hating cats and looking online for dates.
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" They continually attacked the player as they denounced "queers.
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No queers!" and "#DIE ... We don't want you here.
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Hopefully the Muslims will eliminate him and mooshelle as queers.
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He also performed a monologue for the BBC series Queers.
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They aren't talking about the poorest, about queers, women, Arabs.
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So I joined OkCupid to meet queers in the city.
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Queers Against Pete has "been truly grassroots, organic folks all just connecting through our organizer networks," said Scheinpflug, who was pulled into Queers Against Pete when someone emailed them about shutting Buttigieg down in Chicago.
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You don't need to travel to Brooklyn to find the queers.
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She's also careful to offer more complements to her fellow queers.
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But I was swooped up by these amazing queers and femmes.
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On one hand, he's right: most young queers don't sit around
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I gave not just the label, but the queers power back.
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But for those queers who will follow us, Matthew evinces hope.
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"We teach queers to shoot," the group says on its website.
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But there is support out there for young queers in religious communities.
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Not all gay spaces are safe for gender-nonconforming queers and transwomen.
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The piece was like a breath of frosty air for suffocated queers.
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It is not enough to merely write queers in comfortable bourgeois captivity.
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Records labelmates, including the Queers, Screeching Weasel, and the Mr. T Experience.
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The episode features a moment of true, almost universal emotion for queers.
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We do what we queers do — taking scraps and making an abundance.
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" One member of the audience held up a sign, "Queers Against Islamaphobia.
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In Danny's paintings, queers are the only ones, and there's no joke.
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Intellectually, I can recognize the scarcity of public community that queers faced 250 years ago and how very precious Stonewall must have been to the queers who had to muster the courage to go inside a known gay venue.
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One collective, called Queers Against Pete, has a mission of doing just that.
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Queers Against Pete's own exchange with Buttigieg in Chicago was caught on video.
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He jeered at leftists as "egg-sucking phoney liberals" or "communists and queers".
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Slogans that speak to acceptance and tolerance may resonate with cis, white queers.
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In the tweets, he used the word "queer" or "queers" to mock others.
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Or does it further the hope that queers can take over the world?
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Specifically, should straight people be saying it, or does it belong to queers?
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"There's kind of a gap between white queers and Somalis," Mx. Guled said.
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I do it to inspire the muxers, the queers, the whole Chicanx community.
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"There is just a sort of flair with which queers do anything," she said.
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Queers Makin' Beers is the kind of project the beer industry has long needed.
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So many queers on Tinder or Her or OkCupid are obsessed with their cats.
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"The queer black voice had a very separate experience than white queers," she said.
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But wait — queers don't have a monopoly on crystals, tarot or astrology, you say.
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And for fans of dramatic monologue, check out the series "Queers" on BBC America.
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I spent years writing a humor blog about the topic to educate fellow queers.
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It should go without saying, but queers aren't here to fulfill people's sexual fantasies.
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Fellow queers — is there anything we can do to make this hopeless speculation real life?
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And it's sure to make a whole new generation of burgeoning queers fall in love.
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I want to show all the other queers of color that you can do this.
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Those are modern-day dualities that both queers and Satanists are all too familiar with.
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Today I'm one of those queers who can find a narrative about sexuality in anything.
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Mr. Helms and other evangelical Christians immediately proclaimed it God's judgment on Haitians and queers.
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This isn't a phenomenon isolated to me, or to queers, or to 2016, or to GamerGate.
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Blacks had dealt with white fears, while queers had dealt with the fears of straight men.
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Seculars, queers, Kurds, Alevis, anyone with different beliefs and lifestyles has been stuffed into a drawer.
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It was an uprising of furious queers, led by trans women of color, against police harassment.
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Where were you before it was in your best financial interest to be accepting of queers?
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For these younger queers, Matthew's story line offers a road map, a necessary how-to guide.
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But queers aren't saying they want to return to the dark old days of electroshock therapy.
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My friends, these tough women and queers, were all too sharp and creative for their jobs.
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Like so many resort towns that were once refuges for outcasts, artists, and queers, Provincetown is expensive.
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"Most days I'm in the Bay, I see at least one or two queers flagging," Long said.
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Marrying another gay person has long been a way for queers in Chechnya to create a life.
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" As Nicole Garneau, author of Performing Revolutionary: Art, Action, Activism, puts it, "Queers are healing the world.
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Terror had already struck my city; now it was striking my other home, my community of queers.
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We were pissed-off teenage queers of color in an upper middle-class and exceptionally white suburb.
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Since 1994, a gaggle of feathery, bejeweled, and fabulous queers take to the streets in a procession.
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"So many queers have been disinvited from our family tables," said Mr. Kantor, who identifies as queer.
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Dedicated queer bars, especially spaces for lesbians, female-identified queers and trans and genderqueer people, are vanishing.
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But there is a still need for queers to have a community with spaces of their own.
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So why do some queer people make fellow queers feel "other," as they did with Jameela Jamil?
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Sometimes, it feels like a secret code to a club only other queers have the password for.
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Regardless of what you've heard, black and brown queers are very much in the midst of an epidemic.
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And, as I listen, I think that maybe some of his space can go to queers like me.
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I like faggots; I like fairy queers, and I like anyone who is a supporter of these communities.
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Indeed, Queers Against Pete's first intervention was at Buttigieg's fundraising event in Chicago shortly before the Iowa caucus.
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Rest assured I know the world is burning and black queers are both the torches and the flames.
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"An entire community and family of musicians, artists, queers, and community organizers were in that building," Archuleta said.
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" In the movie, Callahan says, proudly, "Christians, queers, teachers, foreign nationals, janitors, lab rats all find me offensive.
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In general, most people get taken advantage of in this industry—it's just worse for women and queers.
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The models and the guests all seemed part of a big, underground network of artists, feminists, and queers.
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We queers were so hungry to see anything having to do with gayness represented, no matter how clumsily.
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It's liberating, and many more gays and queers younger than me are much quicker at getting to this point.
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I'm currently fundraising on Kickstarter to turn this account into a text-based dating and community app for queers.
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My friend cleaved the queers they knew into two camps — breeders and nonbreeders — and tended to avoid the former.
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We queers have had the [historical] ability to take our own growth, healing, and protection into our own hands.
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The idea: If there's no space left for queers and sex workers on land, let's take to the water.
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And organizers say tours will honor those radical queers who gave their lives in the ongoing struggle for liberation.
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Queers comprise a relatively small portion of the American population, making it hard to have a "gayborhood" without density.
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If we think of failure as a foreclosure of a particular possibility, then queers are set up to fail.
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Though we may think of young queers as knowledgeable and engaged, their knowledge is often ahistoric, their engagement thin.
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Queer people get mistreated by non-queers, so when we get second-class treatment by ourselves, it really hurts.
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Claudine Griggs' short story "Helping Hand" first came out in Lightspeed Magazine's "Queers Destroy Science Fiction" special issue in 2015.
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My life and the lives of other black queers have been touched by this culture and subsequently Paris Is Burning.
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We were raised in a place where queers, sissies, and jotos were in the closet—they were pushed back somewhere.
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Even there, her pressure is felt through art and expression by queers who continue to be innovative and push boundaries.
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This was the gift Katherine Dunn gave me, and so many other freaks and queers and sluts who loved her.
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Jews and blacks and Sikhs and queers and immigrants and Democrats generally are on one side of this ideological war.
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" A transgender woman is attacked near her home by men who yell, "We don't want no queers in this neighborhood!
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Screenshots of the tweets from 2011 and 85033 show repeated use of the word "queer" and "queers" to mock others.
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Before smartphones, arriving in a new city as a gay guy meant engaging in detective work to find other queers.
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I am also deeply invested in supporting queers, feminism, prison abolition, decriminalizing HIV and sex-work, and ending white supremacy.
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He's a director who tends to queers mainstream structures and genres, so he was the perfect guy to go to.
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As queers, we almost have these magical powers in terms of creating art and making things fantastic and being visionaries.
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But, uh, it was a Christian evangelical university in Texas and TL;DR, they did not like The Queers™️.
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A commerce-driven acceptance of queerness still excludes queers who don't have money — much like my 20-year-old self.
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Cendana hopes that as Queers Against Pete's message spreads and more people become interested, that the group will organize more events.
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"She's tired," she says, looking at graffiti scrawled across her that reads "BLOODS ARE QUEERS" with unmistakable sadness in her eyes.
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Loba, who eschews the use of pronouns, argues that for women and queers of color self-care is a method of survival.
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Renstrom loosely locates the beginning of the relationship between queers and astrology with Ptolemy, who examined planetary configurations to predict human behavior.
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All the people that, years before us, came and they were killed and murdered and thrown in jail because they were queers.
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The least punishing, least cruel, most fun, fanciful, sensual, adventurous films — the queerest — tend to be the work of the practicing queers.
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Queers are everywhere, which is awesome, but you know, I live in an urban center, which is a bit of a bubble.
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And where queers go, Urban Outfitters follows, years behind but ready to sell cheap crystal-, "witchcraft"- and astrology-themed jewelry to teenagers.
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Unlike David's Napoleon, Mr. Wiley's Napoleon is as teasing as it is heroic, and lightly queers the masculine pretensions of military painting.
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"As queers, a lot of us have already grown up realizing that this script is not going to work for us," Alex said.
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JM: Risk takers and queers and – and these people have been co-opted by larger forces as the shock troops of gentrification, right?
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I think a lot of women and queers and POC and disabled people, etc, doubt their own experience of the world around them.
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" In the tweets, which were dated from 2011 and 2012, the then-teenager mocked others online by using the word "queer" or "queers.
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In honor of LGBTQ Wrath Month, we queers should force ourselves into every heteronormative space possible and shove our queerness in everyone's face.
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The U.S. has become more progressive, and more willing to endow its queers with enough tradition for them to secure some American normality.
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"I found all the weirdos in town, and the queers and stoners, and let them tell me what to read instead," he says.
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They were breaking the only tested model then available for queers (the word was still an insult at that time), which was secrecy.
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I want clear, dedicated spaces where queers hang out, places that sneering teenagers can drive past with their friends and secretly wonder about.
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The ad specified "No Jews, queers, or n___s," and included a photograph of a man that Dr. Hiers later identified as Mr. Roof.
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And so, from the second it was released, "Dancing On My Own" was subsumed into the musical vernacular of an entire generation of queers.
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"It seems like a lot of how queers use astrology ... is a little bit different than how most mainstream astrology gets treated," she says.
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My work reflects my experience with identity as flexible and uniquely mine, but also shared with a community of fierce, exploratory, boundary-questioning queers.
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We were about to meet our new community, a whole sea of queers who had never had any dealings with me or my exes!
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Unlike historical gayborhoods, which tend to be white, digital gayborhoods are often more open to diversity, giving room for trans and POC queers to connect.
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And in 2010, a lesbian couple in Tennessee accused a neighbor of setting their house on fire and spray-painting "queers" on the freestanding garage.
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What is most interesting to me in LA's current DIY scene are the intersections between queers, club kids, punks of color, and art school kids.
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"The internet opens up entire new worlds to young women and queers and other people who feel left behind by our culture," the representative says.
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For me and many of the queers I shared subculture with, that meant prioritizing freedom, glorifying poverty, experimenting with our bodies in every way possible.
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In Loba's view, self-nourishment also involves prioritizing community-building over individualism, especially in relation to forging bonds with other women and queers of color.
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Astrology serves a different spiritual need, the argument goes, especially for queers and trans people who've often been denied the right to a spiritual life.
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" Critics specifically took issue with Offset's lyric "I cannot vibe with queers" in a guest verse he contributed to YFN Lucci's recent song "Boss Life.
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There's a Lyft tent, which obviously does not account for tech startups aren't pushing low-income queers out of their neighborhoods in the bay area.
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My "friends" stopped talking to me because I quit coming to church, but I can't sit through my dad preaching on the damnation of queers.
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Like most queers, I had to find my own space, create then define my identity, and fight for my boundaries to be seen and respected.
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Large banners that read "Queers Stand With Frisco Five" and "Fight for Justice" began appearing on the sidewalk, along with supportive messages written in chalk.
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It was very apparent in political discussion that queers, gay men, lesbians were not part of the family, and our stance was: yes, we are.
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Back when being queer was a punishable offense—when cops could raid our bars for no reason, and when abuse and assault by authority figures were rampant—queers found other queers through means of stealth—clothing/hair styles (plaid, leather, pompadours, etc.), accessories, tattoos (the nautical star, the Labrys), flowers (violets, particularly), and other symbols were used to convey one's sexual orientation and proclivities.
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I'm not competing in our next dance competition in July because of a wedding, so I'm skipping practice this week to socialize with my fellow queers.
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Intimacy juxtaposes younger artists like Rand and Davy with more august queers, including Nicole Eisenman and Patrick Angus, both known for their frank depictions of homoeroticism.
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With the exception of one homophobic veterinarian, they've been surprised by just how much life has changed for rural queers there in just a few decades.
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Still, the chances of people watching this movie who aren't Xennial queers, Gen-X lesbians, or currently taking a feminist film theory class are, approximately, zero.
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That thrill is reprised in Peter Ackroyd's "Queer City," which inventories two millenniums of lesbians, gays, trans people and other queers who have lived in London.
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"No one said 'you can't be gay,' but I looked around and didn't see any other queers, and I just wanted to fit in," she said.
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What I wanted to see on my TL was a flood of posts about queers in isolation falling in love with and/or shagging their roommates.
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" This year, Jarry was selected to partner with the James Beard Foundation on a June 22017 Pride cocktail party at the Beard House, titled "Cheers, Queers!
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The pink triangle, today one of many important symbologies used to identify some queers to each other, was then a mark of death in the concentration camps.
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When you said the queers deserve the right to get married, I agree because, by golly, I believe in the constitution, and I got a gay cousin.
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We have this amazing synergy of folks who remember how to do a live protest or die-in and younger queers who know how to amplify it.
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We shouldn't be centering marriage, we should be abolishing the whole system—us queers are the scientists of love and we've got a better future for you!
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It was a radical artistic compromise for the time — just enough gender ambiguity to attract the alterna teens and queers, without quite alienating ad-buying lamestream America.
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Nance—whose independent film "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty," about a girl who got away, was as emo as it gets—queers that concept and adds glitter.
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Berghain is the most obvious example of this school of thought; its stony-faced guardians weed out basics at the door while privileging freaks, queers, and POC.
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This film tells the story of the courageous New York City queers who have been guarding and tending the flame — on those same city blocks — ever since.
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This young generation of queers were socialized very early in their development [to understand] that they could be whatever they wanted to be, more often than not.
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"Rogan's transphobia harm a community whose rights are actively under attack right now," added Alexis Goldstein, a writer, organizer and co-host of the "Humorless Queers" podcast.
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Apparently my youthful cohort of baby boomer and Gen X queers was no more than a sand dune, moving through, a temporary swarm, and leaving the houses behind.
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I worked at a sex shop for seven years — one of those friendly, brightly lit storefronts that hired young feminists and queers with college degrees and great haircuts.
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The February 9 protest was organized by local artists, activists, and community members, and endorsed by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) and Alliance of South Asians Taking Action.
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For queers artists with visions modeled after those of pioneers like Octavia Saint Laurent or Willi Ninja, this movie played an important role in informing their evolving careers.
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It started with young queers and people of color and a realization that perhaps if you could flood the network with something, it would become impossible to ignore.
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Perhaps more than attracting new queers to farming, the summits are an attempt to connect those who are already dotted out across America and lack spaces like Aradia.
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The field of psychology had never been particularly welcoming to queers, but by the time Nicolosi began practicing, attempts to convert gays had already been relegated to quackery.
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But since its opening in 2008, the Central Bar has become a favourite among Strabane's younger locals, opening its doors Monday to Sunday for queers and straights alike.
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Queers make up ten percent of the population, so to have 8.8 percent represented, well, let's make it a full ten, and continue to move forward that way.
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Oh, look — it's the queers waving back at you, plumes of smoke from smudge sticks wafting behind us like spiritual chemtrails as we sage away those negative vibes.
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A queer person looking only for other queers on Tinder would never encounter heterosexually partnered couples casually using an entire community to get their fairly routine rocks off!
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If Opie's "Dyke Deck" represented a 1990s West Coast corner of the lesbian scene, then Green's project is dedicated to an expanded 2018 East Coast crowd of queers.
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" In the same video, Cardi also defended Offset after he was criticized for rapping "I cannot vibe with queers" during a guest verse on YFN Lucci's song "Boss Life.
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There is a long and rich tradition of this, simply because we queers have always been underrepresented on film, meaning we work especially hard to read between the lines.
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In the '90s, queers weren't welcome to adhere to cultural norms, dyke bars were still alive and well, and mainstream advertising had no part in a gay "niche" market.
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The optimist in me is a little bummed by this because if we divorce the word from the branded content, I am proud of the queers in my life.
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There's so much to say because as queer people we're not just queers; we're also queer people of colour, we're also queer disabled people, and we're also queer women.
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Baldwin wrote his second novel during the Eisenhower presidency, at the start of the Cold War, when queers were stuck between a big rock and an uglier hard place.
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"[Young queers] don't get to see how we age in the same way because we don't have people we can look to and see models of that," Leavitt says.
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An Entrepreneurial Vision, Fueled by My Mistakes A vision was born: I could be the force to help my people (creatives, queers, women) become aware and empowered around their money.
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I do think straight people need to think three or four or five times about whether they should go to some queer event, even if other queers are bringing them.
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Fallarino mentioned that there have been a number of groups whose inclusion in the march have drawn controversy, like a few years ago when Queers Against Israeli Apartheid inspired protests.
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For a movement born out of societal disgust over "those queers," how can any cis gay man stand there and leave the rest of us behind once he's gotten his?
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" "Where I grew up, gay men were called poofs, queers, everything derogatory under the sun," he told the Daily Mail, adding that even now "having a bloke around is unusual.
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SPAG-ing, on the other hand, is being done transparently by straight celebrities trying to validate us queers by suggesting queer people are OK, because they're just like normal people!
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In any case, it is flat out wrong and a distortion of the reality — both in the language of hate and the policies of inequality — that queers know and live.
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The language of Ronell's emails must have baffled the investigators, she asserted, because they could not understand the sexualized language that passes between queers (Ronell and Reitman are both gay).
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This romantic noir is a volcanic study of gender, queerness, and the ways in which queers are undermined by symbols and signifiers themselves, not merely the figureheads that hold them.
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And he gives us a heady sampling of his own work, including a rainbow mural made for the occasion, which riffs on, updates, and queers Native art forms and traditions.
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Predominately found on Craigslist or Grindr, their profiles are usually faceless and use not-so-subtle terminology to weed out the ostentatious queers who threaten to give away their cover.
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The more tame photos (such as this one) end up in FB groups like NYC queer cruising, which is a group for queers to post ads for hooking up, not cruises.
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Some of stories below tell tales of baby queers finding their first loves in books, movies, and TV. Some tell tales of straight characters that LGBTQ+ women have coded as queer.
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At a time when many queers have signaled their desire for mainstream acceptability, it has been trans people who have carried forth the mantle of radical queerness, both personally and politically.
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Someone's had a disaster involving an entire pot of blush and a breastplate, while down the hallway the whoops, cheers, and sneers of a collection of queers rip around the walls.
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The fact that at a ragtag collection of east London queers can reach such a wide audience—an unthinkable feat even five years ago—is undoubtedly something to be proud of.
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You'd also witness a diverse assortment of patrons guzzling vodka-crans, baby queers who'd just moved to San Francisco rubbing shoulders with older folks who'd lived in the city for decades.
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This person wasn't like the cute queers Mirah had dated during our friendship, all of whom were already dating someone else, or emotionally unavailable, or not nearly astounding enough for her.
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Artists like Donald Glover, Issa Rae and Janelle Monáe have allowed us to see a more complex world reflected back to us, validating black nerds, black queers and black weirdos everywhere.
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This was in the late 90s—there were no iPhones, no GPS, no Instagram; just a bunch of queers in a broken van with handwritten directions in search for other homos.
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It was the third annual queer fashion show hosted by dapperQ, a style website and production company focused on masculine style for women, gender queers, and non-binary and trans-identified individuals.
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We hope these releases encourage people to find those communities again and feel strength in knowing queers and women were exercising personal liberty and freedom of experimentation in much more unforgiving times.
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The pubs and clubs, now heaving with red-faced yuppies and exhausted shoppers, were instead filled with queers kids, soul boys and fashion students from nearby Central Saint Martins and Central School.
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While no single act will ever be the defining lesbian sex act, because queer sex is as limitless as queers themselves, scissoring is a sex act that is definitely here to stay.
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Queers have to navigate through our own world, drumming to our own beat and trusting our instincts, and obviously with the internet it's changing, but it's really, really important that visibility happens.
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Story at a glance Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg held a private campaign fundraiser in San Francisco on Friday, when he was met by a group of protesters holding "Queers Against Pete" signs.
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As recounted in an oral history of the genre by Adam Rathe for OUT magazine, queers, both closeted and out, were inextricable to the rise of formative punk in the late 1970s.
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The place became not just a haven for intellectuals, queers and, during the first world war, for conscientious objectors, but a work of art itself, a real-life interior of a modern painting.
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I hazard to say that even subcultural queers who weren't plagued by the substance abuse issues I contended with mostly viewed kids as a potential drag on their liberties, or simply an impossibility.
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But as soon as she sees Hazel and Boy Casey protesting against the "homonormalization of the LGBTQ movement," she immediately abandons her position and starts handing out their "Queers against gay marriage" flyers.
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Read these stories next: Why We Call Ourselves Queers, Dykes, Fags, & Homos Please Don't Be THAT Person When Your Friend Comes Out We Need To Talk About LGBTQ People Of Color & Double Discrimination
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Being able to marry is a great endgame for the queers who battle their way through all the bullshit to find love and a home and a family willing to attend the wedding.
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In a community that often prizes pretty white cis men over queers of other stripes, this counter-aesthetic is notable, particularly from someone who, if it suited him, could certainly look the part.
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From public cruising to "secret languages" like Polari, gay people have long used a variety of means to identify fellow queers, both out of sheer necessity and as a means of facilitating sex.
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Also, because queers of all genders were burned at the stake as witches, I wanted to use the cartoonish green witches of modern times, play into the stereotype, and have fun with it.
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"Something Borrowed," starring Alan Cumming, is part of "Queers," a series of eight monologues directed by Mark Gatiss ("Sherlock") and shown on BBC America throughout National Coming Out Day on Wednesday, Oct. 11.
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With the click of a button, social media taps you into the lives of QTPOC tastemakers around the world, giving new generations of young queers the incentive to be fearless and do the same.
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Another work shows a curvy femme kicking a can of Safariland tear gas under the slogan "We Like Our Queers Out of Uniform," borrowed from a 1992 zine by Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention.
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To many of a younger generation of queers, who perhaps just have a different relationships with drugs in general, poppers are seen as near-kitsch, like mirror balls or Sherbet Dip Dabs — silly, nostalgic.
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"I'll tell you some good things, but I want to make sure we don't let him off the hook," said Emmaia Gelman of Irish Queers, an advocacy group for gay and lesbian Irish-Americans.
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Pride has long occasioned debates about the extent to which queers should be celebrating or still rioting, and has exposed the divide between those in the community with more privilege and those with less.
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I love the endless parade of queers with hilarious homemade T-shirts; I hate the drunk college bros yelling "No homo!" jokingly to their friends, their biceps covered in temporary Wells Fargo rainbow tattoos.
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In a sketch called "Queers in History," Escola struts jauntily across the stage wearing a newsboy cap and underwear, pretending to be P. Fancifeather, a man whose claim to fame is swimming the Atlantic Ocean.
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So they have a lot of trans characters, people of color, different queers that are on the show as well as behind the scenes writing, so it's really awesome from the bits that I've seen.
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All the years of struggle and strive and anthem and rave have led us to now, a place where queers of every age, if lucky, are able to reimagine themselves in a world increasingly queer.
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Change as fundamental as the way that people look at gays or queers, and how the police respect or lack respect, is never done in a polite manner because it's sort of a punch back.
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Instagram's restrictive content policies regarding nudity and sexuality have affected sex workers, queers, artists, and even journalists, censoring sexy pics and jokey dildo selfies alike in the name of building a profitable, child-friendly platform.
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As a particularly despised group of people, queers were fighting police brutality on one front and racist admission policies in gay and lesbian bars on the other, homophobia at home and the closet at work.
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For me and other working-class queers, the shorthand for participating in this narrative was "selling out" — to cross over the strict line of disjunction between queer culture and corporate capitalist America through personal gain.
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" North Carolina Kris, 22, a veggie crew farmhand at Blubird Meadows, Carrboro, NC "My gender identity is fluid and rocky — much like the water holes in which queers commune in the back woods of North Carolina.
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Vida, set in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles's landmark gentrification battleground, queers the trope of the prodigal daughter by exploring the tensions of escaping home for the straight sister versus being expelled by it for the other.
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In the genre of "melancholy literary queers in love," we have Chanya Button's Vita and Virginia, a British period drama that recounts the great romance between Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and Vita Sackwell West (Gemma Arterton).
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And while gay bars have been said to feel like meat markets themselves (the comparison is sometimes uncanny), gathering queers in a physical space fosters unexpected encounters, where people can't be filtered out by their stats.
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They hold up signs all weekend that say, "We love you the way you are!" and offer free hugs to queers who would give anything, anything at all, to hear those words from their own parents.
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WATCH: Exploring London's LGBT Club Scene Instead, I ask one simple thing: Give me an excuse to get outrageously drunk on the streets of the capital without insulting me and my fellow queers in the process.
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There's still a lot of unsettled frustration surrounding the appropriation racialized queers have witnessed within club spaces, but when I started visiting and going out in New York, I found new doors began to open for me.
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The queer Muslim group Salaam and the queer South Asian group Trikone are joining BLMV for an alternative march the following day, dubbed the Two-Spirit Queers, Trans, Inter-sexed, and Bisexual People of Color Pride March.
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She was getting ready to knock on doors in San Francisco, one of dozens of daily Sanders grass roots activities — from a "Beers and Queers for Bernie" event to a "Bern the Mic" hip-hop fund-raiser.
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And since lesbian bars tend to absorb all the queers who aren't gay men, and since more people than ever before are identifying as L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+, don't you think it's kind of weird there are so few bars?
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It gets more inclusive and welcoming every year, and as the queers become less threatening, more straight people come, and more minds are opened to the possibility that we gays might just be regular people, after all.
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Festivals like Fed Up and the surviving queercore movement provide spaces and meeting grounds for all kinds of queers to gather and fight for their own agency, making the genre, in many ways, more vital than ever.
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"There is such a happiness and love of life in the recording of 'Come Rain or Come Shine' that I perform — I love getting to connect with that Judy and the queers who loved her every single night."
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In my makeup bag is a history book, connecting me to the radical queens, queers, butch dykes, and trans folk who fought for me to be able to paint my face the way I want to paint it.
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Cissy has been a weekly space for trans, femme, and non-binary queers from its inception, but these people only really started to show up in earnest when I started to carry about my own gender identity publicly.
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He is the co-author, with Patrizia Gentile, of "The Canadian War on Queers" and a member of the We Demand an Apology Network, a group that has been pushing for the action Mr. Trudeau is now taking.
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Trenchantly, it pits the competing agendas of the different student factions against one another and also denounces the way the men in the movement recapitulate white dominance over blacks in their dealing with women and self-defined queers.
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"This is for the queers," Jenna said before the last two beams of light shot up, indicating that all the participants on this season of the reality dating show had found their "perfect matches" — winning them the game.
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At 6PM, THUMP features editor Michelle Lhooq will bring together Discwoman's Christine Tran, Fake Accent's TYGAPAW, Papi Juice's Oscar Nñ, and Techno Queers' Tyler Pridgen for a discussion of the new queer dance floor, co-presented by VICE.
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I'd been to a couple QTPOC parties before, but it wasn't until I attended SHOCK VALUE that I experienced the spiritual unity that comes with being part of a congregation of racialized queers all dancing in the same room.
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It's speculative fiction — Rosenberg takes Sheppard's story and queers it, imagining the notorious criminal as trans in a time when he wouldn't necessarily have (and, we see, would be constantly seeking) the language with which he could describe himself.
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My friends and I were city kids, drag queens, queers, goths, and punks, which is to say we were club kids—strange outcasts who came together to make New York City nightlife as amazing as it was back then.
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As Robert Moses tore down the neighborhoods where queers lived and worked and the waterfront economy went into secular decline, the spaces that served as meeting places and focal points for these collective institutions were turned into freeway onramps.
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Having allies is wonderful, but sometimes I wish they could be allies every other day of the year, and let us have a party as gay and naked and radical and un-family-friendly as we queers might like.
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I've had a particular weakness for Peter Pan kinds of queers, which doesn't encompass all andro bois but, rather, a particular subset therein: lesbians and enbies living out delayed adolescences after being denied the real thing in their closeted youths.
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Finding a sex-positive community was a homecoming in my early twenties, and interacting with a community of outspoken feminists and radical queers poured the foundation for my politic, my heart, my values, my dating life, and for my life's work.
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There's a bunch of radical queers in the book (cue Macaulay Culkin shaking his rump on MDMA in Party Monster) and not only because it was necessary to indulge in a little danse macabre with the zombifying reality of AIDS.
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I just completed a body of work that delves into the life of Stormé DeLarverie, a butch dyke who had an extraordinary life as a drag king, protector of queers, and lesbian bar bouncer at the Cubbyhole and Henrietta Hudson.
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He's managed to get himself into hot water ahead of the tournament, remarking at a send-off event for the team that he didn't want anyone to think he and Roy Keane were "queers" for going to the Super Bowl together.
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The night after the massacre at Pulse, for instance, Honey Dijon, a trans female DJ, played to a huge crowd at Ladyfag's weekly party Battle Hymn, a night that provided much-needed catharsis for hundreds of queers processing their pain.
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Free, unsurveilled space is hard to find in the city but is crucial—especially for teens, queers, low income and homeless people, trans people, people of color, and anyone occupying a body that's disproportionately harassed by police and business owners.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the modern LGBT+ rights movement, U.S. novelist Armistead Maupin said it was time for storytellers to take the "cultural revolution" to countries where "queers get thrown off roofs".
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Bands like this often look and sound exactly like the people they're rallying against—those who hate women and queers and people of color and refugees and people with physical and mental challenges, and they sound just like them to us.
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This collage series commemorates Munro's work and will be displayed permanently at the Beaver, not just for those who personally knew Will, but for young queers who might not know about how the places they dwell in came to be.
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It's been taken up by far right, white supremacists, neo-Nazis.. and I'm here today to say this space is not for them, this space is for us, this space is for us queers, us gays, us trans, us disabled.
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Some point to the economic disparity between genders in explaining the discrepancy, while others look to the mainstreaming of gay culture, and the fact that queers coming out today have less need for specifically queer spaces than do generations prior.
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And without extending these boundaries to meet the needs of queers of color and trans people, a space designed to provide temporary liberation from a hostile world runs the risk of inflicting that same hostility on minorities within the LGBTQ community.
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The L Word aired on Showtime from 2004 to 20193, and its cast included Jennifer Beal, Pam Grier, and Laurel Holloman, who were a part of a community of lesbians and queers in Los Angeles, navigating interwoven relationships, limbs, and plot lines.
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We talked about the weather, and then his role as an AIDS awareness educator, and then insurance and the lack thereof, and then he said, verbatim, that 1 out of every 2 black queers were on track to get HIV in their lives.
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Queers Against Pete was born out of frustration over Buttigieg's policies, like his lack of support of free college, and his actions as South Bend mayor, such as how he handled the shooting of black resident Eric Logan by a white police officer.
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Unbeknownst to many who idolize her however, the song is void of a narrative that's ethos dates back to the 1960s, when the Harlem ballroom scene first gave African and Latino queers a safe haven to craft early blueprints of identity and performance.
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Many of the works are filled with bright-eyed, loved-up lesbians and queers who, at that time, were more likely to be threatened, maligned, or worse than to be treated with the recognition and love so clearly present in Gottschalk's photos.
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Macy Rodman's weekly "drag show for fuckups" Bathsalts, which closed last June, was a space for the weirdos even before she announced her identity as a transwoman, and her events continue to be inclusive spaces for femme queers and gay boys alike.
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Right now, collectives of women and queers and trans folk and people of color and non-Western people and combinations of all of those are rising and building their own communities and networks alongside (or completely independent of) the "mainstream" music industry ride.
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The outside world was not made for queers, and a lot of people who had to hide their gayness during the day could come out at night and commit over-the-top faggotry and relate to one another through drag and self expression.
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Along the way, Ziggy peruses the internet for answers at length, coming across and joining the Red Pill subreddit, an area of the internet that brought us the now-ubiquitous term "incel," and that continues to terrorize feminists and queers, among others.
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As Jack Halberstam explained in The Queer Art of Failure, the refusal of heteronormative success is a constitutive part of queerness — not merely because queers may choose alternative lifestyles, but also because pathways toward traditional markers of success have been barred from us.
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On a Pfefferman family trip to Israel, Ali falls in with some radical queers living on a commune in Ramallah (many of whom are white Jews) who patiently indoctrinate her, breaking her free of the casual Zionism her family mindlessly subscribes to.
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Being queer and aging is the crux of the story Brooklyn and Leavitt are trying to tell: many queers do not have traditional families for cross-generational interactions, and gentrification further severs ties to informal but historic queer sites in the city.
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She found a new passion for LGBT rights and quickly joined several organizations, even founding the improv group Old Queers Acting Up. Only 13 years into their relationship, Spyer was given a multiple sclerosis diagnosis, one that would eventually would leave her using a wheelchair.
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Others have a DIY collage aesthetic with the high contrast of a Xerox machine, from Shotgun Seamstress by Osa Ateo in Tacoma, Washington, a "zine by, for, and about black punks, queers, feminists, outsider artists, and musicians," to The Point with discussions on public housing.
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Before all that, though, Red Jordan Arobateau was putting down queer raunch that laid crucial ground for today's open artistic expression of Black sex, and arguably still surpasses what's accepted and available in terms of media portraying the sex lives of poor, Black queers.
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Filled with songs called things like "Wanna Be Missed", "Sleepover," and "Feelings" (yes, really) her album reminds you of all that obsessive futile longing that most people – especially us queers – have felt at some point, but probably haven't indulged in since we were teenagers.
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" He knows the case is a losing battle from the start: "As Berliners fought pitched battles in the streets and kicked the last shreds of life from the limp-wristed Weimar experiment, no one was on the side of the queers and the dancers.
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" The Slants, he said, are hardly the first rock band to reclaim "stigmatizing labels" in order to "throw them back" in others' faces: "I grew up with bands like the Queers, Pansy Division — groups who take it and flip these assumptions on their heads.
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"Part of her misstep was failing to realize that part of why she has had recent success is, in part, the result of an allied effort to support Black and WOC comedians by Black women and Black queers," communications strategist Camonghne Felix tells Broadly.
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Memes, in Gray's time as now, assist in facilitating the underlying desire to agree on a set identity in contrast to others, and the itch to compare and exclude and align ourselves—men are like this, women are like this, queers are like this—still exists.
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Here are the queer and trans celebrities we believe are single (though of course these things can change) and could most benefit from a scripted romance: Jonathan Van Ness is one of those rare celebrities who's loved both by the normies and the radical queers alike.
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In August 1966, after management and police harassed a group of transgender women and drag queens at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco—a late-night hangout for many local queers and sex workers at the time—the city's LGBTQ community responded with two nights of resistance.
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And it was that concentration of LGBTQ people in San Francisco, as well as in New York and Chicago and other cities, that allowed queers to organize grassroots liberation movements, as noted in The City and the Grassroots, a study of urban activism by Manuel Castells.
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Babely Shades is a collective of Ottawa-based artists and activists who have gotten lots of terrible backlash from not-so-closet-bigots by protesting shows they feel unsafe attending, including bands like The Queers and Black Pussy, and the venues and promoters who host them.
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If one considers this in relation to all feminist art histories, which are about re-negotiating male-dominated spaces to create an actual dialogue for and by women, that is not shadowed by the male gaze, then Vargas and Youmans' work takes that and queers it hard.
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Barnette told me that the installation was a commemoration of her father's dedication to the people, musing that his creation of a safe space for Black queers in a racially antagonistic San Francisco scene was an extension of the political labor of his Black Panther community work.
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Local nightlife icon and Compton's Coalition leader Honey Mahogany describes how starting in the 2503s, it's also where gay and trans people gathered before gay sex and drag shows were legal—where queers could spend their nights at gay hustler bars relatively undisturbed by antagonists such as the cops.
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Several rooms are given over to photo documentation of and written statements about such groups as the Box Queers in Berlin or the Aquahomo association in Paris, who use sports to bind and strengthen their dedication to political causes (in these two examples, the fight against homophobia and transphobia).
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"The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon," Tom Spanbauer A spiritual manifesto as well as a heartbreakingly beautiful read, this book explores themes of gender, the oppression of women and queers in the old West and is an intense portrayal of the power of the human spirit.
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I've often wondered why women and queers love cats so much, and in the end, I think it might be this: It's possible we've been conditioned to love and perform labor for creatures that don't necessarily love us back, care about our needs and may even wish us ill.
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And Soloway is onto something deep: so much of American gay politics emerged from the pain of Jewish queers—Harvey Milk, Larry Kramer, Leslie Feinberg—who were rejected by their communities, and then, in a complex transference, applied Jewish models of identity to the lives of erotic outsiders.
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" In Megan Milks's review of Socialist Realism for Bookforum, she notes that a decade ago "many queers were enamored with the alluring radicality of queer negativity" — think Lee Edelman's 2004 polemic No Future, about the queer death drive — but "in the Trump era such grandiose nihilism seems puerile.
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The monument's plaque features a 1989 poem by Lanigan-Schmidt that refers to him and his sisters (as all the queers were known then, and now) as "Street Rats," signifying the denigrated social position to which many out gays, lesbians, transsexuals, cross-dressers, and queens were subjected at the time.
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Basically, reading Angela call Mission Chinese Food a queer restaurant was about her claiming the space as a haven for queers—to work, to come to, but also acknowledging that it was a space built by queer folk, and feeling it important to name the queer community's contribution to the place.
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Once gathered within these overlooked urban spaces, the converging young and marginalized artists, musicians, queers, dissidents, and even startup entrepreneurs find themselves forced to invent (or reinvent) alternative micro-social living environments founded on an ambivalent or outright contentious relationship with city policymakers and the capitalist marketplace as a whole.
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I've stopped hoping Pride's organizers will actually talk about the avoidable HIV crisis that's been sweeping through our towns and cities, or demand an end to the homophobic deportation system that sees queers seeking refuge in this country forcibly returned to nations where their sexuality is a risk to their lives.
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There's a lot wrong with that perspective — for one thing, a lot of the modern queers who shit on butch/femme dynamics aren't from the working class, where those identities were born — but it's one I still sympathize with, especially as someone who'd previously been hesitant to claim femme identity as my own.
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It's the kind of queer community that I feel comfortable calling by that name, one that encompasses a tangible support structure that persists after the party is over; it's the kind of community queers all over the world rely on for survival, the kind of community I feel lucky to have found.
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But the government will never put an end to that dark chapter of Canadian history unless it widens the scope of its review to include all the ways queer people have been criminalized throughout history, said Gary Kinsman, a sociologist at Laurentian University and co-author of The Canadian War On Queers.
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Some of us are lonely old queers having to closet ourselves in care homes, some of us are suicidal teenagers, and some of us have nowhere to live after our families chucked us out and the Conservatives in the UK, where I live, cut housing benefits for 18-to 21-year-olds.
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A small controversy emerged among progressive queers this April when it was revealed that ACT UP—one of the most influential HIV/AIDS activist groups in history, which has long taken an anti-Wall Street stance—was accepting money from Credit Suisse, a bank that pled guilty in 2014 to decades of assisting tax evasion.
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In different ways, some more nuanced than others, all of the queers in my circles have consulted Aaliyah throughout time and her mentorship has given us the space to consistently evolve in ways that make our contributions vital to the future of kids who'll need us to be for them what she's been for us.
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Wealthier queers like Whitman or Jennie June, a white trans woman who published a three-volume Autobiography of an Androgyne, had the means to author their own stories, but it was primarily their contact with working-class cultures and their distinct system of gender and sexuality that gave shape to their queer self-conceptions.
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Perspectives from Audre Lorde, Samuel Delaney, Sylvia Rivera, and Marsha P. Johnson are included alongside those of individuals less well known at the national level, such as Jay Toole, a formerly homeless activist who is still fighting for homeless queers in New York City, and Kiyoshi Kuromiya, one of the founders of Philadelphia's Gay Liberation Front.
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Cruz's performance, "How to Order a Chocolate Cake," draws inspiration from the last writings of the Spanish poet Garcia Lorca; Thomson's "Chimera" takes up and examines the power dynamics of race, gender, and appropriation in US culture; and Kosoko's "the dialectic of light and dark" queers theatrical conventions to underline how gender and race are negotiated and performed.
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"Hopefully the Muslims will eliminate him and Mooshell as queers," he added, seemingly referring to first lady Michelle ObamaMichelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaJuan Williams: Democrats finally hit Trump where it hurts Michelle Obama to present Lin-Manuel Miranda with the Portrait of a Nation Prize Michelle Obama thanks her high school for naming new athletic complex after her MORE.
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Mr. Bishop said he saw The Yard as playing an important role in supporting London's subcultures, through nights such as Pride of Arabia, which defines itself as being for "queers from the Arab world," or Murder on Zidane's Floor, an event run by Goal Diggers, an East London soccer club for women and people who identify as nonbinary.
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"A 'transgender person' means a person who is neither wholly female nor wholly male or a combination of female or male or neither female nor male; and whose sense of gender does not match with the gender assigned to that person at the time of birth, and includes trans-men and trans-women, persons with intersex variations and gender-queers," the bill said.
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Photo: Chip Somodevilla / GettyThrowing his arms around a far-right provocateur whose shtick includes labeling political adversaries "queers" and "fags," Senator Ted Cruz on Thursday tweeted a rebuke of YouTube over the company's belated decision to take action against Steven Crowder, a man whose years-long campaign of harassment against a gay journalist invariably culminated in a barrage of death threats.
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If you looked past the glitter of the drag queens and the gritty homemade signs of grassroots gays, things I've been accustomed to seeing for the past 15 years, what stood out this year was the overwhelmingly high number of people who weren't lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender in attendance — and the increased number of major companies supporting us queers.
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But it wasn't his accent that made him distant with me, I thought, though maybe it was uncharitable of me to assume he shared the views of his colleagues, or some of his colleagues, like the priest who had called, the previous summer, for all decent people to line the route of the Pride parade and throw stones at the queers.
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Hugh Ryan was inspired to write "When Brooklyn Was Queer," his boisterous, motley new history, when, a few years ago, he set up an amateur museum of local queer history in his Bushwick loft — he prefers the term "queer" for its chronological sweep and denotation of gender and sexual nonconformity — and noticed that queers in Brooklyn today know little about their antecedents.
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"Mayor Pete is leaning on the support and actively courting the LGBTQ2IA community, but has shown time and time again that he is out of touch, not fit to be President of the United States, and simply falls short," a collective of queer individuals identifying themselves as "Queers Against Pete" wrote in a January open letter criticizing Buttigieg's positions on a number of issues.
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As owners of the self-described "very, very gay" MeMe's Diner in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, Mr. Clark, 30, and Ms. Willis, 27, have become linchpins of the L.G.B.T.Q.-centric New York food community since opening in November 2017 (Cuties, a rainbow-fronted coffee shop with a community tab program and monthly "Queers, Coffee & Donuts" sidewalk cookouts, is a hub for those in Los Angeles).
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Sorrendguy remains one of the best lyricists in punk rock and Facades address a number of issues including the generation gap "Wrap Yourself in Me" ["Thanks for your suffering, and the paving the way for me, What could you possibly know"] and gay identity politics "They Tell Me" ['They created a box, To squeeze all queers in, Their definitions have flattened us, Stay fucked and never go in'].
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Each room was filled with the most fabulous, proud members of the queer community I had seen in one place for such a long time: queens, queers, young gay boys wearing slicks of red lipstick, older lesbian couples spinning one another around across the waxed floor and making out furiously at the end of each song, the most-glamorous trans women flirting over a Spritz in the corner of the bar.
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The first layers a breathless rush of words in green lettering over black-and-white images of floating bodies: "I was told I have ARC recently and this was after watching seven friends die in the last two years slow vicious unnecessary deaths because fags and dykes and drug addicts are expendable in this country 'If you want to stop AIDS shoot the queers' says the ex-governor of texas," it reads.
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