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The signs started appearing on telephone poles around town: simple black-and-white flyers of Drew Barrymore screaming with “Gay Screaming Society” in bold across the top, a date and location on the New Orleans lakefront.

“Look for the gay people,” the flyer instructed.

It wasn’t exactly difficult to find the hundreds of gays and theys who showed up to scream that day at Lake Pontchartrain. We chatted a bit and then a couple of people with megaphones prompted us to scream. And we did.

Two hundred queers, some in clown casual, some in their Sunday best, all screamed together at the sunset-dappled lake. We screamed and screamed and screamed. There was no why. We all knew why. Because, life. Because, Amerikkka and its current incarnations of bigotry. Because, everything.

I screamed so long and hard and loud that my throat was scratchy for days, but I felt amazing. It was as though the tight fist of my body had finally let go. I had to know more. I asked everyone who was “in charge.”

“It’s a movement,” someone told me. “No one knows who organises it,” someone else said. “It’s global,” someone else said.

No one knew who I could talk to about the mysterious Gay Screaming Society. The........

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