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NO MORE COPS AT PRIDE

HERE’S KIND OF AN UNSPOKEN RULE IN Columbus, Ohio: Black folks don’t go to Pride. I was planning a cookout with other queer Black trans folks as an alternative to the annual event in 2017. While I was shopping for the occasion, an activist friend called and asked to meet at Starbucks. When I arrived, she was with a couple of other activists

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