By the fourth year, Marco had stopped holding lanterns for other people. He had stopped going to the festival altogether. Because the thing about being a trans man in a world that desperately wants you to be a woman is that even the most colorful, loving parts of the LGBTQ+ community can sometimes feel like a house with no door for you.
The second year, he held one for a stranger named Jordan, a trans man from his GSA meeting who’d been too scared to come out. Marco’s lantern read “Trans Rights Are Human Rights.” busty latina shemale
This year, at twenty-three, Marco almost didn’t come back. By the fourth year, Marco had stopped holding