I’m at a thing where I’m meeting a gazillion queer and trans #AAPI elders who were here when we had no visibility at all. One of them, a 70 yo Filipina queer woman said, ‘one of the newscasters commented on live TV that even the Asians are marching’ (a...
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I’m at a thing where I’m meeting a gazillion queer and trans #AAPI elders who were here when we had no visibility at all. One of them, a 70 yo Filipina queer woman said, ‘one of the newscasters commented on live TV that even the Asians are marching’ (at the March on Washington)
All very inspiring, but even more inspiring is seeing so many ways to just.. be. I never saw what it might be to be an older queer person. Here I see them all the time. I wrote about this:
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I’m looking forward to being Crystal or Trinity in 30 years
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The novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club was based very loosely on Crystal’s life. Crystal was also the first queer and out Asian teacher in San Francisco.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Read 13.5k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That b…
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@skinnylatte read this on my walk back home and it made me bawl. growing up the only queer folks i know were transwomen on television being the butt of the joke, or fellow traumatized teenage queers trying our best to keep eachother safe. I should look out for the next one of these banquets and try to visit.
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Related: how seeing a magazine cover sent this person on a journey to locate his Asian queer elders
(Same with me. The blog post I initially linked was inspired by seeing just that SAMBAL: Singapore and Malaysia Bisexuals and Lesbians photo)
How This Magazine Cover Sent A Man On A Journey To Find His Queer Asian Elders
“We’ve been around for a long time, and there aren’t any contradictions to being both queer and Asian.”
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