Be Amazing: A History of Pride Gordon C. James From wiggly and squirmy to

From wiggly and squirmy to rested and still

bestselling author of the viral poem “Good Bones” and the memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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Be Amazing: A History of Pride Gordon C. James From wiggly and squirmy toIn Be Amazing, drag kid Desmond is Amazing walks you through the history of the LGBTQ community, all while encouraging you to embrace your own uniqueness and ignore the haters. Desmond is amazingand you are, too. Throughout history, courageous people like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and RuPaul have paved the way for a safer, more inclusive society for LGBTQ individuals, and its thanks to them that people just like Desmond can be free to be who