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We Were Once Illegal. We Can Do It Again. by kelley dupps At many points in history, being queer was treated as a crime. Laws named our loves and bodies as unlawful. Courts labeled desire as disease. Police raids closed the doors to the few places we could gather. These legal and social systems forced us into secrecy, into coded lives, into margins where survival and community became the same thing. Those conditions are not only past. The gains of recent decades such as decriminalization in...

When Rights Are Threatened, We Organize Across Arizona, familiar patterns are reemerging—old fears in new forms. In Peoria, the school board is moving to ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. In Gilbert, a handful of parents tried to revive book bans that would silence queer and BIPOC voices. These attacks aren’t isolated; they’re part of a national movement to roll back hard-won rights and reframe inclusion as something dangerous. But history reminds us: we’ve been here before....

Queer History as a Blueprint for Survival & Resistance By kelley dupps Queer Americans have repeatedly held democratic institutions accountable for the harms they inflict on everyday queer people, and in doing so have remade law, medicine, public memory, and civic life. From the AIDS crisis to marriage equality to today’s fights for trans existence, queer movements have exposed how institutions produce exclusion and then used those same institutional levers to demand accountability and...