Marsha P. Johnson lived most of her life with almost nothing, and gave most of that nothing away — a room at the STAR house, a meal, a place to sleep for the kids the city had thrown out.

The kitchen in her words is not a small thing. It is the ordinary lit room where you are finally safe enough to be tired. On a day the news wants you to believe the darkness is everywhere, she points at the linoleum.

There is a floor. There is a room that is yours. Reach it.

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What's the small lit room you're trying to reach?
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Couple years ago there was published an important science book called "Klusumā" (Inside the silence), and it is about queer life in Soviet times in my country. In the preface researchers talk about the hardships finding queers of that generation for interviewing – they hoped to do it via younger queer generations, but that connection isn't there. This Pride month the realization of what that actually mean hit me like a brick in the chest.
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