We Set The Night On FireMartha Shelley didnt start out in life wanting to become a gay activist, or an activist of any kind. The daughter of Jewish refugees and undocumented immigrants in New York City, she grew up during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, was inspired by the civil rights and antiVietnam War movements that followed, and struggled with coming out as a lesbian at a time when being gay made her a criminal. Shelley rose to become a public speaker for the

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an ode to community

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uncluttered prose

There was little access to understanding what it meant to be queer and transgender

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forgiveness

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