🔥 Burning Man, but make it Philly
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A group of more than 30 self-proclaimed "gutter-pagan mostly queer dirtbags in their early 30s" set off on a mission earlier this summer to cancel as much medical debt as they could for their local community.
Inspired after seeing local churches do the same, organizer Claire Hirschberg and a group of her friends, mostly in the LGBTQIA+ community, set out to fundraise as much as possible.
- The team successfully raised $17,000, a sum that enabled them to purchase more than $1.6 million in medical debt owed by Philadelphians, according to their nonprofit partner RIP Medical Debt.
- The group gathered afterward to celebrate the achievement, setting fire to a giant medical bill near the harbor in Philly👆.
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