Queer Guide Comic: COVID-Safer Pride Guide

Hazel Newlevant is a Portland-raised, Brooklyn-based cartoonist and editor, who primarily makes autobiographical and queer history comics. Their comics include If This Be Sin, Sugar Town, and No Ivy League. They have edited and published the anthologies Chainmail Bikini and Comics for Choice.

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Queer Guide Comic: COVID-Safer Pride Guide

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