Tommi Avicolli Mecca, a member of GLF at Temple University and a co-founder of Radicalqueens, is author of Between Little Rock and a Hard Place and co-editor of Hey Paesan: Writings by Lesbians and Gay Men of Italian Descent and Avanti Popolo: Sailing beyond Columbus. He lives in San Francisco, where he is a housing rights activist and a regular contributor to beyondchron.org, SF Bay Guardian, Bay Area Reporter and Bay Times.

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