This year, I want to take a moment to have a moment of silence and honor every single LGBTQ+ life we've lost due to violence and suicide.
I especially want to highlight all the black trans women who've brought the community as a whole closer to personal freedoms, even those as simple as gay marriage, and who have been violently assaulted, abused, and murdered for standing up for their rights. Their lives and their fight was not in vain.
I love you all.
In honor of:
Marsha P. Johnson
Sylvia Rivera
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Stormé DeLarverie
Among many, many others.