Rainbow Justice

Every parent of an LGBTQ+ child knows the fear. Not the abstract kind - the specific, quiet, 3 a.m. kind. The kind that asks: will the world make room for my child? Will my child be safe?

Rainbow Justice was written from inside that fear - and from the conviction that looking away honors no one.

Narrated from the perspective of a mother, this book moves through the defining moments of LGBTQ+ history: Harvey Milk's assassination, Matthew Shepard's murder, the killing of Brandon Teena, Gwen Araujo, and Angie Zapata, and the night forty-nine people were shot at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It tells the stories of the dead - fully, by name, with the lives they actually lived. And it traces the thread of mothers and family members who transformed unimaginable loss into a lifelong fight for justice.

Rainbow Justice does not look away from the violence. But it insists, on every page, that these people were far more than how they died. They were how they lived - with courage, with love, and with the radical insistence that their existence mattered.

Their names deserve to be remembered. Their stories deserve to be told.