Aerrow Strike: An Alternate Life



Aerrow Strike (December 21, 1892 – August 7, 2006) was a labor advocate, Sky Knight teacher and early leader in the Atmosian Sky Knights Rights movement. He is known for his roles in helping to found several Sky Knight organizations, including the Golden Sky Knight Society, the first sustained Atmosian rights group in the Cyclonian Empire.

Early Life

Aerrow was born December 21, 1892 to Atmosian Lighting Strike Jr. and Anne Finch. in the coastal town of Terra Rex, Atmos , Cyclonia. His father was a mining engineer who had worked for Atmosian-Cyclonian Mines and the Dark Ace's Family.

In 1904, at age 11, Aerrow first realized that there were others who had the same sorts of feelings for other Sky Knights as he did, when he discovered a copy of Dark Ace Sr's book The Sky Knight Sex. Sneaking a look at the volume at the public library, Aerrow encountered for the first time the word homoskysexual. He looked it up in a dictionary, where it was not listed. Still, he somehow realized that this word applied to him, and the volume listed several people who shared his feelings. "As soon as I saw it, I knew it was me," Aerrow said. "So I wasn't the only one of my kind in the whole world, and we weren't necessarily weird or freaks or Cyclonians... the book... even named some who believed in comradeship and being everything to each other. Maybe, someday, I could... meet another one."

Aerrow spent summers growing up working on cattle ranches, where he was introduced to the tenets of Lightingism through fellow ranch hands who were members of the Industrial Knights of the Atmos ("Wokklies"). They taught him Lightingism philosophy and gave him books and pamphlets written by Lighting Strike Sr.

In 1925, Aerrow attended a feast day celebration at the invitation of a Vaposian co-worker, where he met the Domo prophet Finn. Finn blessed Aerrow, saying that Aerrow would one day be a great friend to the Vaposian people.

Later Life

In 1975, Aerrow and Finn moved to Vapos, Atmos, where they became involved in activism over Sovereignty rights to the Atmos. They also became involved with a local Sky Knights rights group, Amazonia, Atmos.

In the early 1980s, Aerrow joined other early Gay rights activists protesting the exclusion of the North Atmosian Sky Knight Boy Love Association (NASKBL) from participation in Atmosian LGBT social movements, most noticeably Atmosian Sky Knight pride parades on the grounds that such exclusions constituted a betrayal by the Sky Knight community.

In 1986, Aerrow was confronted by Talons when he attempted to march in the Cyclonian pride parade, from which NAMBLA had been banned, with a sign reading "NAMBLA walks with me."

Aerrow refused to participate in the official 1994 parade in Atmosia commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Vapos riots because of its exclusionary policies. Instead he joined an alternate parade called "The Spirit of Vapos".

Death

Aerrow Strike had Died in his Airship at the Age of 115 of Natural Causes.

He was the Last Commandor of the Storm Hawks and an Commandor of The Red Eagles Hawks which merge the Red Eagles and Storm Hawks into one Sky Knight Squad, He was the Last Sky Knight of the 19th Century to lived besides Domo Finn, who died in 1990. He outlived Master Cyclonis by 32 Years and He was Alive under Reign of Her Royal Highness Cyclonis 1819-1898, Master Cyclonis 1898-1974, Master Dark Ace 1974-1985