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Hello, I am Ahmed Nour, I am 25 years old. We are currently living in a war of extermination and starvation. My father suffers from high blood pressure and a weak heart muscle. During the war, he was injured by a missile in his back, shrapnel in his head and another in his stomach. He needs surgery abroad to be able to move. We are now living in harsh conditions. We live in a small, torn tent. We have flooded more than once due to heavy rains, and this poses a danger to my father. I hope that anyone with a conscience will donate on behalf of my father. I hope that you will donate as well, as this appeal is directed to people with a living conscience.

I want to add that our situation as a family is very difficult. We are a family of 9 people. I am the eldest. My brothers are young and cannot sleep because of the severe cold. They need clothes, mattresses, and blankets so they can sleep. In addition to that, we cannot afford to buy our own food. Please help us, please help us, please. We are dying in silence. Donate for these children. They are young and have done nothing wrong.🙏🏻😭

Please help my sick father and little sisters to survive this deadly war. Please look at us with your humanity. 🙏🏻😭

Current: $2,591 usd

New temporary goal: $5,591 usd

Sylvia Rivera (holding the banner), and Marsha P. Johnson (with cooler) of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR.) at the Christopher Street Liberation Day, Gay Pride Parade, NYC (24 June 1973). Photographer Leonard Fink. Reprinted, by permission, from the National History Archive of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.

For historical context: Sylvia Rivera was talking about the radical Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) group that she and Marsha P. Johnson founded together in 1970. Together, they ran the S.T.A.R. House, where they pooled every last penny they had to provide a home for young street queens (mostly sex workers, mostly people of color). By the time of this speech (1973) their (gay) landlord had evicted the original STAR House, and they were struggling to keep it going at a new location and desperately needed the LGBTQ+ community to step it up with financial support.

That's what she's talking about when she says "I've been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help!" She's condemning the white gay cis monied audience before her for turning their backs on the trans and gay people in NYC suffering the most. She's saying that despite the fact STAR had almost nothing, and faced the worst violence from the state, that they were still fighting to help the trans AND cis unhoused and incarcerated people of color left behind by the most privileged. And still the Gay Pride organizers didn't want to let her onstage to ask people to actually help gay and trans people stay alive.

Despite her pain and rage at the cruelty of this supposed community, she ends with the invitation: "Come and see people at STAR House on Twelfth Street, the people that are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to our white middle class club."