the point wasn’t about lasting and being like, you know, some groups—like NOW. Lasting forever. Most truly radical organizations, when you’re that—when you’re the edge of that sword—you burn out. It’s like a supernova, right? It bursts onto the scene and brings illumination. But like most things that are like that, they burn themselves out. And in the end, one of the things that I regret is that we did not have a deep, deep ongoing conversation with the African American community in Boston, so that we could continue undermining homophobia in that community and continue to ask the hard
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