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The second year, he held one for a stranger named Jordan, a trans man from his GSA meeting who’d been too scared to come out. Marco’s lantern read “Trans Rights Are Human Rights.”
This year, at twenty-three, Marco almost didn’t come back. busty latina shemale
“Still here. Still trans. Still learning how to belong.” The second year, he held one for a
“What are you going to write?” Sam asked. The second year
“See?” Sam said quietly. “You were never outside the circle. You just hadn’t found your spot in it yet.”
Marco had been coming to the Pride Lantern Festival for six years, but this was the first time he wasn’t holding a lantern for someone else.