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title: "Via @[114501626:2048:Avens O'Brien] "Burks said the financial help…"
date: 2018-06-29
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# Via @[114501626:2048:Avens O'Brien] "Burks said the financial help…

*June 29, 2018 · Facebook*

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Via @\[114501626:2048:Avens O\'Brien\]\
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\"Burks said the financial help given to patients --- from burial expenses to medications to rent for those unable to work --- couldn't have happened without the support of the gay clubs around the state, particularly Little Rock's Discovery. "They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money," she said. "That's how we'd buy medicine, that's how we'd pay rent. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done."\"
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