his name was joan sebastian guerrero. his 3 yr old daughter was in the backseat of the car in her bluey pajamas. after he was shot, witnesses saw ICE agents pull him from the car and cuff him as he died

If you can’t donate to the gofundme for any reason, you may also consider supporting Presente, which supports Latin American and Afro-Latin people in Maine: https://www.presentemaine.org/

  mean this in the kindest possible way. if you are too young and unsafe to go to your gay community center or pride here’s some ways you can connect to gay history.

since it was suggested in the tags

the Samuel Proctor oral history project

the queer zine archive

for today’s update:

if you found this list of resources helpful, i implore you to help the lgbt you see on this website. especially right now when things are so hard.

PDF: transgender history, susan stryker (2017 updated edition via archive.org)

Hi everyone i have a special request for you today. a close friend of mine recently and very unexpectedly lost his father. his family, already struggling in poverty, has been left with no income and many financial obligations. the grief of this loss and the stress of the finances has been weighing on my friend terribly. if you could donate and share his gfm it will help to ease some of that burden as his family figures out their next steps, and I will be forever grateful for any help you can give to him.

in response to people saying things like "men aren't allowed to cry in public, unlike women" other people will then say things like "women are penalized, not rewarded, for public displays of emotion—the fact that women are presumed to be overly emotional & irrational is misogyny, not a privilege"