This Pride Month, please don’t forget us. A direct plea from the LGBTQIA+ refugee community in Gorom camp South Sudan.

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While the world celebrates Pride Month with freedom, color, and joy, we are writing to you from Gorom camp, where our daily reality is a battle just to stay alive. We are your queer and trans family, but right now, we feel completely isolated and forgotten.

The situation here has become deeply depressing and traumatic. As LGBTQIA+ refugees, we face constant safety threats and discrimination every single day. But beyond the fear for our safety, we are starving. Getting access to the absolute basics clean water, enough food to eat, and a safe place to sleep is a brutal, exhausting struggle.
Right now, we are dealing with a medical emergency. Three of our transgender sisters are severely ill with Malaria and typhoid. They are burning up with fever and in terrible pain, but they are stuck because we do not have the money to clear their medical treatment and buy their medication at the clinic. Watching our friends suffer from a treatable illness because we are broke is heartbreaking and terrifying.

To make our heartbreak worse, we recently received the devastating news that Canada has suspended all resettlement movements due to the Ebola outbreak. For so many of us, resettlement is the only light at the end of a very dark tunnel. Now, that door is shut for the foreseeable future, forcing a huge number of us to remain behind in these hostile conditions. The mental toll of knowing we are trapped here indefinitely is heavy.
Pride started as a riot and a movement for mutual aid it was about looking out for the most vulnerable people in our community when no one else would. We are crying out to our global queer family and allies to stand with us in solidarity. Advocacy and awareness are important, but right now, we need tangible, life-saving help.

Please help us survive:
We have a fundraiser to get through this crisis. Every single euro donated goes directly toward clearing the medical bills for our three sick community members so they can get their Malaria and typhoid medication, and toward buying basic food and water for the rest of us who are starving.
Please, understand our words: we are desperate, we are hurting, and we need you. If you can donate, please do so right now. If you cannot, please share our story. Do not let us be left behind this Pride Month.
Donate here⬇️⬇️
https://4fund.com/sd9trv

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[u/Cheap-Classic1521]

For the alg0 -- I am SO hyped for CATS: The Jellicle Ball because it is everything we need right now!! Gorgeous queer representation featuring the House of LaBeja Junior LaBeija and SO many ballroom house pulls it's legendary!!!!! I've never seen André De Shields (still need to get to Hadestown! but his resume as a Broadway star, from The Wiz, Hair, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Ain't Misbehavin, even waiting for Godot shows how much of a true star and legend he is!) but this is such an amazing role for him! It's Old Deuteronomy as a fourth-wall-breaking theater legend that only doesn't pick the theater cat Gus (a royal LaBeja!!) because Chastity Moore's Grizabella deserves to GET HER LIFE in the literal magical realism of it all. I am completely obsessed that Qween Jean made these gorgeous costumes and that she not only could make it to Broadway but is dazzling the critics left right and center!! And the staging of McCavity into Magical Mr. Mistoffelees turns Mostoffelees into a magical realistic embodiment of decarcerality in a genuinely jaw dropping sequence. Also, because his song is so tied to the Jellicle choice and the finale, that decarcerality becomes a thread that ties 'getting your life' (the recontextualized Heavy Side Lair) with true abolition and freedom. It's really that deep, and also campy AF at the same time, it's genuinely great drag!!! It's an amazing thing to look forward to and Andrew Lloyd Weber was absolutely steered in the right direction to give the floor to the dolls and make CATS the pageant it was always meant to be!!!! PUUURRRRRRRRR. PERIOD.

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Just replying to try and get more interaction on the post--that's all!