‘Queer Newark’ book chronicles LGBTQ history 20 years after teen’s killing

The 2003 killing of 15-year-old Sakia Gunn by a man who had been trying to pick up her girlfriend at a Newark bus stop let the world in on a little-known fact about Black lesbians in Newark: They existed. Furthermore, they were, and are, part of a broader LGBTQ+ community of color with a long history in the state's largest city. Those realities are the subject of a new book edited by a Rutgers-Newark professor that provides more complete histories of Newark and the broader LGBTQ+ community nationwide. Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love and Community, edited by Whitney Strub andpublished…

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