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Gaza’s Queer Palestinians Fight to Be Remembered

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Queer P Palestinian are finding ways to counter these narratives and make their existence known.

More than 11,200 people, including over 4,000 children, have been killed in Gaza since October 7.

People are being decapitated in Gaza, not for being queer but for being Palestinian.

People of color in the US know the ramifications of transphobic and homophobic scapegoating.

Queering the Map can be seen as a digital version of this act of memory-keeping for queer people as their l Gaza ones are killed and the end of their own life feels imminent.

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