5 Positive Things to Remember After Orlando

Queer culture has always existed as parade and funeral, from the very first time a smiling boy with a limp wrist was beaten for having a good time.

Although the scale of violence in Orlando is unfathomable, how to cope with extremes is built into our community’s DNA. Our culture is still young and has lived in shadow for so long that it still needs victories and tragedy to shed light on where it stands to others and to itself.

As a gay man whose earliest memories were AIDS vigils, who was a closeted teen in high school during Columbine, who wept angry tears at the God Hates Fags brutality of Matthew Shepard’s funeral, who has a chipped tooth from a gay bashing on a San Francisco bus, this violence is not new. For younger brothers and sisters who have not lived through these kinds of tragedies, and for those of older generations who are so familiar that they may feel numb, here are 5 things to remember that gay history has taught us.

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