WendyHarry Hay founded the Mattachine Society in 1950 — when homosexuality was simultaneously a crime and a clinical diagnosis. He built it from the conviction that queer people were not a defective version of the norm.
Michael Callen co-authored How to Have Sex in an Epidemic in 1983, while the government wouldn't say the word AIDS in public. He made the document and handed it out on street corners.
Assoto Saint edited The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets in 1991, writing through the plague at thirty-six years old because the archive depended on him personally.
What they share: none of them waited for permission.
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Michael Callen co-authored How to Have Sex in an Epidemic in 1983, while the government wouldn't say the word AIDS in public. He made the document and handed it out on street corners.
Assoto Saint edited The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets in 1991, writing through the plague at thirty-six years old because the archive depended on him personally.
What they share: none of them waited for permission.
https://twp.ai/4hqysh
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHeroes #HarryHay #MichaelCallen #AssotoSaint #LGBTQIA #Pride #ThistleAndMoss #QueerNews
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