I'm a still-life painter pulling together clusters of objects documenting queer life in the everyday and throughout human history. In the same space, I hold the reality of emotional, cultural, economic, and political systemic devastation of the queer community as it stands as opposed to the risk of freedom: life lived out loud. Inspired by Fragments of Sappho, this work reveals some, but not all, displaying fragments of archival queer literature and resistance publications woven amongst personal narratives, memories, myths, dreams, and relationships. Assembled through chromatic cross-sections and color chasms, I portray affirming ephemera and analyze the contrasting systemic violence beneath the surface. Through this language of cultural lineage and self-preservation, I rebuild a home where my whole identity is welcome and celebrated. Through these multi-year observations, I show that queer people are here now. We have been here throughout all of time.