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Dreams are the destinations we arrive at as we chase our wishes and our callings.
But “normal” is a pass afforded only to those who are too scared to dream, too afraid to transgress.
Queerness is a way of life people fear because in it they might find freedom.
Not all gods are invisible, faultless, presumably straight, masculine, and white. The happenings in life that
work every day to not harm, control, and use the women in my life. I try my best to mother myself. I try my best not to rely on them to mother me by being as real as possible about the work I have yet to do on myself. It took some time to realize how entrenched my issues
A mind tortured by hate can produce haunting effects on the body. The only demon in that place was the psychological deception cloaked under the guise of Christian love.
I convinced myself to believe the act itself was far worse than the vision. I dreamt a lot while awake.
My understanding of liberation at the time centered on the bullets others aimed at me, the horrors I experienced. It was an individualist vision of self-ascendancy lifting me above the ugliness of society’s hatred of gay people, and it had kept me alive. But in Newark that day, I was being called to profess love for femme men, butch women, transgender people, those who resisted categories of difference altogether, sex workers, queer and trans folk who lived in the projects, homeless LGBT youth, and those living with HIV.
DARNELL L. MOORE is an editor-at-large
