"LGBT People Aren't Superheroes"

[Content Note: Pulse shooting; terrorism.]

This is a really moving and difficult and beautiful and sad piece by Carlos Maza, working through his feelings after the mass shooting in Orlando.

I'm sure lots of you aren't ready to read it yet, and some of you need to read precisely this thing in this moment, and some of you might feel indifferent to it, because it doesn't resonate with how you're feeling.

But here it is, if you need it now, or for when you do.

And there is good advice to cis straight people, too: "Make yourself available."

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