"I wish Larry had lived to see Friday"

In a time of anti-black violence and the Supreme Court's decision on marriage equality, Charles M. Blow reflects on his cousin Larry, who was murdered in an act of anti-gay violence in Louisiana. 

"Larry lived a kind of amplified erasure: black and non-heteronormative. And, he lived it as boldly as he could at a time when it was dangerous to do so and in a place where there was little support or protection," Blow writes.