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Atlanta, Georgia became Moon Charania’s home in the 80s, after she and her family moved from Pakistan. She finished high school, college, and married a Pakistani man and had a baby. Ten years into her marriage, Charania came out.

What came next was intense backlash. Now a professor of international studies at Spelman College, Charania hopes that more people will come to understand the lessons in the histories of radical LGBTQ movements for freedom, especially in the South.

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