celebrating queerness, cause, like, growing up in chicago, like, i don t see queerness, our queerness, being celebrated. it s something you have to hide. but seeing that celebration geared towards queer people, if it existed before, it can exist again. it s empowering. i love that. - that s incredible. through history, it becomes empowerment, you know? like, if you know your history, where we came from, we can go back to it, like you said. - there is power, the power to kind of change society, talking about possibility models. and we don t see anybody who has done the things that we want to do. - i love that term. - yeah. it s hard to just create things from scratch. if i would have known about danny sotomayor when i was a little boy, that would have changed my life. - tell me who s danny sotomayor, tell me. - danny sotomayor is a puerto rican mexican who grew up in chicago, and he was one of the leaders in the act up movement around the aids epidemic in the 80s. he was an artist, he
like, i don t see queerness, our queerness, being celebrated. it s something you have to hide. but seeing that celebration geared towards queer people, if it existed before, it can exist again. it s empowering. i love that. - that s incredible. through history, it becomes empowerment, you know? like, if you know your history, where we came from, we can go back to it, like you said. - there is power, the power to kind of change society, talking about possibility models. and we don t see anybody who has done the things that we want to do. - i love that term. - yeah. it s hard to just create things from scratch. if i would have known about danny sotomayor when i was a little boy, that would have changed my life. - tell me who s danny sotomayor, tell me. - danny sotomayor is a puerto rican mexican who grew up in chicago, and he was one of the leaders in the act up movement around the aids epidemic in the 80s. he was an artist, he led protests, he created change, he basically shamed the go
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