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Screenshot of a photo embedded on a webpage. The photo caption in small print says Sylvia Rivera at Age 18 in New York City, 1969 laying back and posing on the edge of a water fountain. At a young age Sylvia began fighting for gay and transgender rights while also helping homeless young drag queens, like herself, gay youth, and trans people. She was a co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) with Marsha P. Johnson. Photo by Kay Tobin / New York Public Library

Sylvia began fighting for gay and rights

No, it’s not a typo. It’s 🏳️‍⚧️ erasure. Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and transgender rights. Hold the flickering candle of that sentence. We know what the Stonewall National Monument said.

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He-Man and She-Ra cartoon characters, arms outstretched, smiling. more complete version of the image than the one that was shown before, as it shows more of their bodies, down to their thighs.

Have you heard their pronoun names?

Skeletor can never beat He-Man or She-Ra. If anyone’s genuinely startled that He-Man is he/him, boy howdy, let me double-startle ye and introduce ye to his sister, She-Ra. Not so important, really.

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Don Lemon was arrested in a hotel

The Trump regime is indicting journalists. Protesters entered a church. The Trump regime believes it can stop this. It got a grand jury indictment. But journalists also have constitutional rights.

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video still of NPR Morning Edition interview. Rahm Emanuel has gray hair and is wearing a collared white shirt and pink tie. He's speaking into a microphone, his eyes wide, his hands on his hips.

Rahm Emanuel: ‘Acceptance,’ not ‘advocacy’

He’s describing a culture of self-acceptance. However you choose to treat trans people, proudly accept yourself! You’re doing great! His discourse infantilizes and rejects us. There’s no plan let us co-lead, especially on issues that matter to us. He wants to let MAGA have their way.

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