Roll call across the years: Marsha P. Johnson threw bricks and parties at Stonewall. Edie Windsor toppled DOMA. Bayard Rustin organized the March on Washington from the shadows the movement forced him into. Pauli Murray argued the theories that cracked segregation before most knew her name. The thread from Rustin's erasure to a statehouse fighting over the word parentage does not break — it only waits for the next set of hands. They lit the small lamp anyway, knowing the dawn might belong to someone else's eyes.

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A woman in Albany has raised her daughter since the night she was born — fed her, sat up with her fevers, signed the school forms. Under the old Family Court Act she is not, in full, her parent. That's the gap New York voted to close, and that's what they're screaming about. The bill doesn't erase "mother." It adds umbrella terms so two women, or two men, can stand legally as parents to the child they already raise. The kid is loved. The lunch is packed. The rage isn't about losing the word mother — it's about having to share it.

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"I am eager to burn this threadbare masculinity." Essex Hemphill wrote it mid-plague, while a government refused to name the dead — and died at 38 in 1995. Marsha P. Johnson gave away what little she had and was found in the Hudson in 1992. Pat Parker built a women's health clinic while publishing five collections. The poem and the picket line were never separate. We say their names like we're calling roll.
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