Chaotic Gay

It’s okay if you can’t catch your breath

You can take the oxygen straight out of my own chest

I will love you with everything I have

I will love you without any strings attached

ATLANTA

LOUISVILLE

HOUSTON

BROOKLYN

1. Don't wear contacts.

2. If you get tear gassed, when you get home, put the contaminated clothes in a plastic bag for later decontamination and shower with cold water to avoid opening your pores.

3. Come with friends and don't get separated.

Avoid leaving the crowd and watch out for police snatch squads.

4. Beware undercovers, but beware snitch jacketing and collaborator 'peace police' even more.

5. The far right is very good at combing through pictures and doxxing people. Mask up. Also its covid and with mace and pepper spray bring extra..once its hit with those itll suffocate you and be rendered useless.

6. Write any necessary phone numbers you may need directly on your skin in sharpie.

7. Have an offsite plan for emergencies if you have not been heard from by X time coordinated with someone offsite.

8. Make sure all mobile devices are charged!!

9. If you plan on going to jail, plan it: bail, lawyer, time off from work, witnesses i.e.: a cadre. Don't just go to jail without training.

10. Beware folks inciting violence. Most of them are police feds. Watch out for hook ups for the same reason. Get to know the crowd. They will set you up.

when they step into a room, you feel yourself take a breath and then let out a breath. when they look at you, you feel like the only two people on earth. when you hug them, you know that’s what home feels like. when you fall asleep, they’re on your mind. when you daydream about them midday you can’t help but smile to yourself. when you picture a future, they have to be in it.

Say it with me now:

Going to therapy isn’t a bad or shameful thing.

Going to therapy isn’t a bad or shameful thing.