nmajh-lgbt:

“My rabbi asked me to take him to a place where I felt a particular attachment or a visceral memory. I brought him to a stack in the back-left corner of the basement of my school’s library — the HQ70s in the Dewey Decimal System. It was here, my freshman year, I discovered that there are books all about queer Jewish people, where I read Sarah Schulman and learned about Magnus Hirschfeld. In the HQ70s I felt seen in a new and liberating way. For so long I had felt like there was nobody like me, like there were no other Blazes or Bens.”

— “Why It’s Still Frightening to Be Jewish and Queer in 2018,″ by Ben Kesslen, Them.us.