They were about to summon a Black Maria and have the obviously homosexual protestors dragged off. But Anthony Fauci wouldn’t let them. He wanted to hear what ACT UP had to say. He told the police to ask five or six of the protest leaders to come in, to meet with him in a conference room.

These communities were suppressed and erased by the British Empire and its harmful views on gender identity and sexuality. But the damage done by the legacy of homophobia and transphobia introduced by British colonialism doesn’t only live in the past. There are 64 countries around the world that still criminalise homosexuality, and many of them are