The nonbinary activist was killed while marching for Black lives during a Seattle protest. Now their friends fight to preserve their memory against hate.
In the wake of, Taylor’s friends and coworkers interviewed by BuzzFeed LGBTQ now find themselves echoing Love’s sentiments to keep protesting, while also fighting to ensure that their friend’s vibrant personality and life, which included a love of cartoon tattoos and Lizzo, is not erased.
“I have never felt more comfortable and myself around Summer than I have around anyone else,” she said. “They were more going for dad vibes. They were finding euphoria around being called ‘dad,’“ O'Shaughnessy said. “When they told me that I was like, ‘Summer, you just made our family nuclear, because now there’s mom, dad, and two babies.”Summer Marches On
“There was one day where they were so tired. They had worked a 12-hour shift and they were putting on their clothes to go out and protest and they were just unbelievably wrecked,” their roommate remembered. “I was like, ‘Summer, look, it’s okay to sleep for a night.’ And they were like, ‘Really?’”police drove protesters out of CHOP
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