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  1. Bamby Salcedo — three decades for trans Latina survival, $15M secured in California. Sarah McBride — 17 trans-rights bills in 16 months. Three HIV non-progressors holding viral suppression without antiretrovirals. The work does not wait.
    twp.ai/4hrOJb
    #TransRights #TransJoy #HIV #LGBTQHistory #SarahMcBride #BambySalcedo #QueerHistory #Visibility #TransLiberation #BrightSignals

  2. Bamby Salcedo — three decades for trans Latina survival, $15M secured in California. Sarah McBride — 17 trans-rights bills in 16 months. Three HIV non-progressors holding viral suppression without antiretrovirals. The work does not wait.
    twp.ai/4hrOJb
    #TransRights #TransJoy #HIV #LGBTQHistory #SarahMcBride #BambySalcedo #QueerHistory #Visibility #TransLiberation #BrightSignals

  3. Bamby Salcedo — three decades for trans Latina survival, $15M secured in California. Sarah McBride — 17 trans-rights bills in 16 months. Three HIV non-progressors holding viral suppression without antiretrovirals. The work does not wait.
    twp.ai/4hrOJb
    #TransRights #TransJoy #HIV #LGBTQHistory #SarahMcBride #BambySalcedo #QueerHistory #Visibility #TransLiberation #BrightSignals

  4. Bamby Salcedo — three decades for trans Latina survival, $15M secured in California. Sarah McBride — 17 trans-rights bills in 16 months. Three HIV non-progressors holding viral suppression without antiretrovirals. The work does not wait.
    twp.ai/4hrOJb
    #TransRights #TransJoy #HIV #LGBTQHistory #SarahMcBride #BambySalcedo #QueerHistory #Visibility #TransLiberation #BrightSignals

  5. Bamby Salcedo — three decades for trans Latina survival, $15M secured in California. Sarah McBride — 17 trans-rights bills in 16 months. Three HIV non-progressors holding viral suppression without antiretrovirals. The work does not wait.
    twp.ai/4hrOJb
    #TransRights #TransJoy #HIV #LGBTQHistory #SarahMcBride #BambySalcedo #QueerHistory #Visibility #TransLiberation #BrightSignals

  6. Here’s a powerful real-life love and history story. 🌍✨

    Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby became famous in the 18th century for escaping strict family expectations in Ireland and building a shared life together in Wales. 🏡

    In 1778, they left behind their aristocratic lives and defied social pressure to live together at Plas Newydd in Llangollen. Their home became a symbol of independence, curiosity, and emotional companionship that lasted over 50 years. 🌿

    They were visited by poets, nobles, and even historical figures like Wordsworth and the Duke of Wellington, turning their quiet cottage into a place of legend. 📚

    Their story is often remembered today as one of devotion, resistance to social norms, and a deep bond that fascinated Europe for decades . 🤯

    Read more 👇
    theguardian.com/world/2023/jan

    #History #LadiesOfLlangollen #EleanorButler #SarahPonsonby #LoveStory #Culture #Heritage #WomenInHistory #LGBTQHistory

  7. Here’s a powerful real-life love and history story. 🌍✨

    Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby became famous in the 18th century for escaping strict family expectations in Ireland and building a shared life together in Wales. 🏡

    In 1778, they left behind their aristocratic lives and defied social pressure to live together at Plas Newydd in Llangollen. Their home became a symbol of independence, curiosity, and emotional companionship that lasted over 50 years. 🌿

    They were visited by poets, nobles, and even historical figures like Wordsworth and the Duke of Wellington, turning their quiet cottage into a place of legend. 📚

    Their story is often remembered today as one of devotion, resistance to social norms, and a deep bond that fascinated Europe for decades . 🤯

    Read more 👇
    theguardian.com/world/2023/jan

    #History #LadiesOfLlangollen #EleanorButler #SarahPonsonby #LoveStory #Culture #Heritage #WomenInHistory #LGBTQHistory

  8. Here’s a powerful real-life love and history story. 🌍✨

    Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby became famous in the 18th century for escaping strict family expectations in Ireland and building a shared life together in Wales. 🏡

    In 1778, they left behind their aristocratic lives and defied social pressure to live together at Plas Newydd in Llangollen. Their home became a symbol of independence, curiosity, and emotional companionship that lasted over 50 years. 🌿

    They were visited by poets, nobles, and even historical figures like Wordsworth and the Duke of Wellington, turning their quiet cottage into a place of legend. 📚

    Their story is often remembered today as one of devotion, resistance to social norms, and a deep bond that fascinated Europe for decades . 🤯

    Read more 👇
    theguardian.com/world/2023/jan

    #History #LadiesOfLlangollen #EleanorButler #SarahPonsonby #LoveStory #Culture #Heritage #WomenInHistory #LGBTQHistory

  9. Here’s a powerful real-life love and history story. 🌍✨

    Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby became famous in the 18th century for escaping strict family expectations in Ireland and building a shared life together in Wales. 🏡

    In 1778, they left behind their aristocratic lives and defied social pressure to live together at Plas Newydd in Llangollen. Their home became a symbol of independence, curiosity, and emotional companionship that lasted over 50 years. 🌿

    They were visited by poets, nobles, and even historical figures like Wordsworth and the Duke of Wellington, turning their quiet cottage into a place of legend. 📚

    Their story is often remembered today as one of devotion, resistance to social norms, and a deep bond that fascinated Europe for decades . 🤯

    Read more 👇
    theguardian.com/world/2023/jan

    #History #LadiesOfLlangollen #EleanorButler #SarahPonsonby #LoveStory #Culture #Heritage #WomenInHistory #LGBTQHistory

  10. Here’s a powerful real-life love and history story. 🌍✨

    Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby became famous in the 18th century for escaping strict family expectations in Ireland and building a shared life together in Wales. 🏡

    In 1778, they left behind their aristocratic lives and defied social pressure to live together at Plas Newydd in Llangollen. Their home became a symbol of independence, curiosity, and emotional companionship that lasted over 50 years. 🌿

    They were visited by poets, nobles, and even historical figures like Wordsworth and the Duke of Wellington, turning their quiet cottage into a place of legend. 📚

    Their story is often remembered today as one of devotion, resistance to social norms, and a deep bond that fascinated Europe for decades . 🤯

    Read more 👇
    theguardian.com/world/2023/jan

    #History #LadiesOfLlangollen #EleanorButler #SarahPonsonby #LoveStory #Culture #Heritage #WomenInHistory #LGBTQHistory

  11. Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its theater. Jewelle Gomez wrote Black lesbian vampires who refused to die politely. The thread: people too small to be expected to matter, mattering anyway.
    twp.ai/4hrVa6
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily

  12. Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled from Castro's prisons. Kushner wrote angels into the AIDS crisis. Gomez wrote vampires who refused to die politely. The thread holds. https://twp.ai/9OWkmA #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #Trans

    thistleandmoss.com

  13. Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its theater. Jewelle Gomez wrote Black lesbian vampires who refused to die politely. The thread: people too small to be expected to matter, mattering anyway.
    twp.ai/4hrVa6
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily

  14. Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its theater. Jewelle Gomez wrote Black lesbian vampires who refused to die politely. The thread: people too small to be expected to matter, mattering anyway.
    twp.ai/4hrVa6
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily

  15. Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled from Castro's prisons. Kushner wrote angels into the AIDS crisis. Gomez wrote vampires who refused to die politely. The thread holds. https://twp.ai/9OWkmA #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #Trans

    thistleandmoss.com

  16. Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its theater. Jewelle Gomez wrote Black lesbian vampires who refused to die politely. The thread: people too small to be expected to matter, mattering anyway.
    twp.ai/4hrVa6
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily

  17. Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its theater. Jewelle Gomez wrote Black lesbian vampires who refused to die politely. The thread: people too small to be expected to matter, mattering anyway.
    twp.ai/4hrVa6
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily

  18. Watertown Board Bans Song, Students Protest

    Watertown High School students walked out on May 13th after the school board banned LGBTQ+ music from the spring concert, citing 'indoctrination'.

    #WatertownProtest, #LGBTQHistory, #SchoolBoardDecision, #StudentWalkout, #WatertownHS

    newsletter.tf/watertown-studen

  19. Hundreds of students walked out of Watertown High School on Wednesday, May 13th, protesting the school board's ban on an LGBTQ+ history music piece. This follows a 7-1 vote by the board.

    #WatertownProtest, #LGBTQHistory, #SchoolBoardDecision, #StudentWalkout, #WatertownHS
    newsletter.tf/watertown-studen

  20. Watertown School Board Silences Student Music Amidst Protest

    Watertown School Board banned a student music piece tied to LGBTQ+ history, leading to student protests and a walkout.

    #WatertownSchoolBoard, #StudentProtest, #MusicBan, #LGBTQHistory, #SchoolWalkout

    newsletter.tf/watertown-school

  21. Students walked out of school after the Watertown School Board banned a student music piece. This is the first time a piece has been banned for this reason.

    #WatertownSchoolBoard, #StudentProtest, #MusicBan, #LGBTQHistory, #SchoolWalkout
    newsletter.tf/watertown-school

  22. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  23. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  24. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  25. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  26. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  27. Adrienne Rich called heterosexuality an institution in 1980. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums refusing to shrink. We're still here. #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #Resistance #LGBTQHistory #ThistleAndMoss https://twp.ai/4hrJ8U

  28. In 1972, Jeanne Manford walked the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade with her son Morty and a handmade sign: 'Parents of Gays: Unite.' Letters came from everywhere. PFLAG was the direct result. She lived to see marriage equality. Eight words. One movement. The love that got there first.
    twp.ai/4hrC82
    #JeanneManford #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerActivism #QueerParents #GayRights #ThistleAndMoss

  29. In 1972, Jeanne Manford walked the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade with her son Morty and a handmade sign: 'Parents of Gays: Unite.' Letters came from everywhere. PFLAG was the direct result. She lived to see marriage equality. Eight words. One movement. The love that got there first.
    twp.ai/4hrC82
    #JeanneManford #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerActivism #QueerParents #GayRights #ThistleAndMoss

  30. In 1972, Jeanne Manford walked the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade with her son Morty and a handmade sign: 'Parents of Gays: Unite.' Letters came from everywhere. PFLAG was the direct result. She lived to see marriage equality. Eight words. One movement. The love that got there first.
    twp.ai/4hrC82
    #JeanneManford #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerActivism #QueerParents #GayRights #ThistleAndMoss

  31. In 1972, Jeanne Manford walked the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade with her son Morty and a handmade sign: 'Parents of Gays: Unite.' Letters came from everywhere. PFLAG was the direct result. She lived to see marriage equality. Eight words. One movement. The love that got there first.
    twp.ai/4hrC82
    #JeanneManford #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerActivism #QueerParents #GayRights #ThistleAndMoss

  32. In 1972, Jeanne Manford walked the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade with her son Morty and a handmade sign: 'Parents of Gays: Unite.' Letters came from everywhere. PFLAG was the direct result. She lived to see marriage equality. Eight words. One movement. The love that got there first.
    twp.ai/4hrC82
    #JeanneManford #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerActivism #QueerParents #GayRights #ThistleAndMoss

  33. They deleted queer history from the National Archives. Stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall's digital presence. But you don't erase a people by deleting metadata. The documents held. Primary sources are harder to kill than webpages. We're still here.

    twp.ai/4hr1bb

    #LGBTQHistory #Archives #Erasure #Resilience #QueerRights #DigitalPreservation #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

  34. They deleted queer history from the National Archives. Stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall's digital presence. But you don't erase a people by deleting metadata. The documents held. Primary sources are harder to kill than webpages. We're still here.

    twp.ai/4hr1bb

    #LGBTQHistory #Archives #Erasure #Resilience #QueerRights #DigitalPreservation #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

  35. They deleted queer history from the National Archives. Stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall's digital presence. But you don't erase a people by deleting metadata. The documents held. Primary sources are harder to kill than webpages. We're still here.

    twp.ai/4hr1bb

    #LGBTQHistory #Archives #Erasure #Resilience #QueerRights #DigitalPreservation #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

  36. They deleted queer history from the National Archives. Stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall's digital presence. But you don't erase a people by deleting metadata. The documents held. Primary sources are harder to kill than webpages. We're still here.

    twp.ai/4hr1bb

    #LGBTQHistory #Archives #Erasure #Resilience #QueerRights #DigitalPreservation #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

  37. They deleted queer history from the National Archives. Stripped "transgender" and "queer" from Stonewall's digital presence. But you don't erase a people by deleting metadata. The documents held. Primary sources are harder to kill than webpages. We're still here.

    twp.ai/4hr1bb

    #LGBTQHistory #Archives #Erasure #Resilience #QueerRights #DigitalPreservation #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

  38. ⚠️On May 7, 1996, Hawaii lawmakers intensified efforts to amend the state constitution in response to court rulings that suggested same sex couples could have a constitutional right to marry. www.linkedin.com/posts/therai... #LGBTQHistory #MarriageEquality #CivilRights #LGBTQHawaii

    #lgbtqhistory #marriageequalit...

  39. ⚠️On May 7, 1996, Hawaii lawmakers intensified efforts to amend the state constitution in response to court rulings that suggested same sex couples could have a constitutional right to marry. www.linkedin.com/posts/therai... #LGBTQHistory #MarriageEquality #CivilRights #LGBTQHawaii

    #lgbtqhistory #marriageequalit...