OK. Here’s my #pride #PrideMonth confession. This is dedicated to my high school photojournalism teacher Mark Dixon. 
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Years later, as an intern at the
@AP in New Jersey, my friend Aleena@NYChicana and her sis Norma asked me to help hand out water at the#PrideParade in NYC. I said yes. It was 2002. Someone held a sign: don’t forget about the AIDS victims.#Pride#PrideMonth (10 of 14)Show this thread
A group at the parade was asking for donations to help homeless #LGBT teens who were HIV positive and had been abandoned by family. My mom had been briefly abandoned as a baby. I remembered Mr. Dixon. I gave $20 #pride #pridemonth (11 of 14)
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Ever since that parade in 2002, I quietly donate $20 to an LGBT group during
#PrideMonth in Mr Dixon’s honor. I’m a working journalist now and occasionally my photos appear on the wire.#pride#pridemonth (12 of 14)Show this thread -
This year, on the 50th anniversary of the
#Stonewall uprising, I am happy to donate my $20 to my friends at@nlgja in honor of Mr. Dixon#pride#pridemonth#Stonewall50#joirnalism (13 of 14)pic.twitter.com/gJoPtNjkgn
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The $20 was never mine. Mr. Dixon taught me many lessons. He never knew. I never told anyone.
#RIPMarkDixon#pride#pridemonth ENDpic.twitter.com/ZPmf5LjsPG
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Gail Stockman, 60, left and Beth Black, 58, prepare to marry at a massive wedding in Albuquerque on Aug. 27, 2013. The couple joined dozens in Albuquerque for the wedding after Bernalillo County began issuing same-sex marriage licenses. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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