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"I can’t bear it any more, this arrogant, hateful refusal to see. So let me tell you a little bit of queer history, about some of the invisible people: the ones who don’t fit into cosy definitions, who aren’t white, who bust up gender binaries, who wreak havoc by their very presence."



On the Orlando shooting and a sense of erasure
Watching coverage of the murder of 49 people in an LGBT club in Orlando, Olivia Laing experienced familiar feelings of shame and paralysis. She reflects on growing up in a climate of intolerance and the many ways queer people have been silenced…
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