It wasn’t until I watched screeners from season 2 of the Emmy-nominated reality TV show “We’re Here” that I became aware of some of the ways I subconsciously contribute to my own queer erasure. Or that some of the residents who currently live in this historic town are. You know, in all of the years I’ve visited, watched documentaries and followed news coverage of civil rights activists crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in observance of Bloody Sunday, it had never occurred to me that some of the foot soldiers in 1965 were queer.
