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They ate cheap pizza. They argued about which Pose character was the best (Candy, obviously). They laughed until someone cried, and then they cried together when a news report flashed another anti-trans bill passing in a state far away.

That evening, The Haven filled up. There was Leo, a trans man who fixed the broken heater every winter and never asked for thanks. There was Samira, a hijabi lesbian who was learning ASL so she could interpret for a deaf trans elder named Mr. Charles. There was Jun, a young trans-femme artist who painted murals of phoenixes on the alley wall. shemalevid

Mars closed his fingers around the stone. For the first time, his hands didn’t shake. They ate cheap pizza