#sylviarivera

Bayard Rustin organized the 1963 March on Washington from the shadows a homophobic era forced him into. Ran the whole thing. Stood offstage. Sylvia Rivera fought to keep the "T" from being cut out of the movement — the exact sorting we watched again today. The thread doesn't break. Who wrote you into the record before you could? #QueerHistory #BayardRustin #SylviaRivera #LGBTQIA #TransRights #Pride #CivilRights #QueerElders #History #Resist #Solidarity #Community https://twp.ai/4htDKZ

History / Hemphill + Rivera Essex Hemphill wrote in the teeth of a plague, when the men in pulpits called the dying deserved. Thirty-four years later a pastor recycles the same machinery. We kept reaching for each other anyway. The fear was theirs. The tenderness was ours. https://twp.ai/4hs7C0 #QueerHistory #EssexHemphill #SylviaRivera #Stonewall #LGBTQHistory #Pride #Poetry #QueerPoets #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering