Firefly Grove was an annual potluck for queer folks in the tri-county area. It started years ago as a handful of trans people sharing warm beer under a willow tree. Now it drew hundreds: lesbians with coolers full of artisanal pickles, gay dads chasing toddlers, nonbinary teenagers trading pronoun pins, and elders in camp chairs who’d survived the worst of the AIDS years and stayed to tell the stories.
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Later, driving home with the windows down and Dez asleep in the passenger seat, Mara thought about the name of the picnic: Firefly Grove. Fireflies, she remembered, were bioluminescent. They made their own light. But they only lit up when other fireflies were around—when they had something to signal to. Firefly Grove was an annual potluck for queer