Sylvia Rivera fought for the queer people the world tried to forget—trans women, unhoused youth, drag queens, street workers, and the most vulnerable among us. This post honors her fierce, uncompromising activism and her legacy of never leaving anyone behind.
Before religion codified it, homophobia didn’t exist. It was taught, enforced, ritualized. This blog post unpacks how religious institutions transformed diverse human expressions of love and gender into sources of shame, and how queer liberation demands that we confront these sacred roots of oppression.
Before Harvey Milk, there was José Sarria—the drag queen, activist, and self-proclaimed Empress Norton. This post honors José’s royal defiance, political courage, and the dazzling power of queer pageantry as resistance.
In a blatant act of queer erasure, conservative Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the USNS Harvey Milk renamed. From deleting trans identities in the military to whitewashing Stonewall, this is more than symbolic—it’s war on our history.
Harvey Milk believed that visibility was survival—and that hope could never be silent. This post honors his legacy as a leader, an activist, and a symbol of the power that comes from simply being seen.
The Rise of EmpathyTech
They Are Trying to Erase Us. We Have Been Here Before.
