In the second part of our conversation, Nisa Dang and I discuss race and racism in the LGBT community. We also talked about the Pulse shooting, and how the most ignored factor in that shooting continues to be the race of the victims. Finally, we talk about how the devastating defeat in 2016, and a conference call with Hillary Clinton led Nisa to pick up her things and go to Djibouti to help the Yemeni refugees.
“The LGBT community in general makes life look like it’s so fucking amazing to live. Everything’s a fucking rave. Brunch every weekend, endless mimosas… and we have these parades and floats and we celebrate ourselves. And yeah we celebrate ourselves because we have to, because that is a survival instinct. It’s the same reason people want to party with black people: we live like we’re dying because hey, we are…” – Nisa Dang, 2017