It’s About Fucking Time

Transgender women of color said, "Fuck this police harassment shit!" and rioted at Compton's Cafeteria in the Tenderloin.

Then my dad got expelled from Emory University for hitting on his roommate.

Then he attempted suicide.

Then transgender women of color and gay men torched the Stonewall Inn.

Then my parents married.

Then I was born.

Then the APA depathologized homosexuality.

Then my parents divorced because my dad was gay.

Then Dan White killed Harvey Milk.

Then AIDS.

Then Reagan was elected.

Then my dad moved to San Francisco.

Then Reagan finally said something in public about AIDS.

Then my dad became HIV+.

Then he told me he was gay.

Then I cried.

Then his partner died of AIDS.

Then The Band Played On.

Then I told my friend I had a gay dad.

Then she said, "big fucking deal!"

Then they didn't ask and didn't tell in the military.

Then Matthew Sheppard got beaten and tied to a fence post.

Then my dad died of AIDS.

Then gay marriage was legal in San Francisco.

Then it wasn't.

Then Prop 8 passed.

Then it was reversed.

Then a transgender kid was in my class.

Then gay marriage was legal.

Then two Black transgender women were murdered.

Now it's illegal to discriminate against an LGBTQ person.

It's about fucking time!