These comics are part of Prism’s series on sex positivity and the arts. Read the rest of the series here.
“Adventures of Bitter Fag” is artist Julio Salgado’s alter-ego. While he identifies as a silly gay who loves to crack jokes, there is a bitter part of himself that shows up when white supremacy, anti-blackness, homophobia, transphobia, and other societal phobias show up. Bitter Fag is here to ruin your day if you think that we’ve made it as an LGBTQI+ community when muscled cis-gay men are allowed to run shirtless during Pride while Black and brown trans folks are being murdered, jailed, and deported.
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Julio Salgado is the co-founder of DreamersAdrift and the Migrant Storytelling Manager for The Center for Cultural Power. His status as an undocumented, queer artivist has fueled the contents of his v
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