And Then They Came For You: Remembering Victims of LGBTQ Violence

They have come for you in the dead of night. Armed with guns, armed with machetes, armed with whatever it is they could find. They have to come to crush you, to extinguish the flame of your existence. They have come in the name of love to kill you, to destroy you, to take you and drag you through the streets, kicking and screaming, a necklace of fire around your neck. They have come. For you. They have come.

Some of them are your friends, the ones who smile with you, the ones you have drunk with, the ones you have…