“They told us we were too much,” recalls veteran activist Marlene Rodriguez, who marched in the 1980s. “They said, ‘Let us get our foot in the door, and then we’ll come back for you.’ But the door kept closing, and we were still outside in the rain.” The last decade has seen a seismic shift. As marriage equality became the law of the land in the U.S. in 2015, the movement’s center of gravity shifted toward the T in LGBTQ. Suddenly, the conversation moved from “who you love” to “who you are.”
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