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    LZ Granderson: What I want Dave Chappelle to understand about the color of queerness

    There are queer people in Selma, Alabama. You know, in all of the years I've visited, watched documentaries and followed news coverage of civil rights activists crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in observance of Bloody Sunday, it had never occurred to me that some of the foot soldiers in 1965 were queer. Or that some of the residents who currently live in this historic town are. It wasn't ...
    by LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times Oct 13, 2021 3 minutes

    There are queer people in Selma, Alabama.

    You know, in all of the years I've visited, watched documentaries and followed news coverage of civil rights activists crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in observance of Bloody Sunday, it had never occurred to me that some of the foot soldiers in 1965 were queer. Or that some of the residents who currently live in this historic town are.

    It wasn't until I watched screeners from season 2 of the Emmy-nominated reality TV show "We're Here" that I became aware of some of the ways I subconsciously

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