Five Alarm LGBTQ Fire: Friends and Allies, Please Help!

The worse things get, the quieter our friends become

House fire, by Николай Егошин on Pixabay. Queer tears licensed from Adobe Stock.

I feel like I’m going hoarse shouting into the wind about a fire that’s burning my family’s house down — only to have neighbors tut tut and tell me I’m imaging the emergency or that it will sort itself out. “Nothing to see here, move along.”