Iwasnever formally introduced to Andrea Gibson’s poetry. They just felt like kin from the beginning, like a queer cousin I always knew.

As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson could send a spoken word poem spinning through space and time knowing it would reach its perfect home — swishing to a close in the last lines, nothing but net.

Remembering Andrea Gibson, a poet and activist, who gave the LGBTQ+ community more than poetry. They offered truth and a space where queerness felt safe.