hero search

today i was talking to a friend and she was talking about going to lunch the other day with yuri kochiyama and how she really enjoys hanging out with elders and learning from them. during their lunch they were talking about queers and specifically some trans issues. and to place some context for yuri, my friend was trying to think of gay activists from back in the day to explain something to yuri and came up with james baldwin and bayard rustin as examples. so today our other friend was asked us who our hero or an elder who we respect and helped us out in some way. and none of us could think of a queer asian out there. it made me sad to realize that. who is a public queer asian activist out there?