I went to a protest outside Nicolas Maduro’s first federal court hearing in New York in search of comfort, but ended up confronting the Venezuelan homophobia and misogyny I fled from

Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores’ trial continues on March 26th. Three months ago, at their first hearing, my heart sank as a Venezuelan queer woman when I witnessed how my conationals discredited anti-interventionist protestors by questioning their gender appearance and sexual preferences, not their politics.