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“Pride is complicated for me,” says Maria, a 34-year-old trans Latina living in Texas. “I love the parades. But last year, a gay man told me I was ‘making queers look bad’ because I corrected his pronouns. The community isn’t a monolith. We still have work to do inside our own house.” : Books like I Am Vidya by Vidya