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LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter Activists Illustrate Solidarity
Protests at the Stonewall Inn against police brutality and a massive Shadowy Trans Lives Matter march in front of the Brooklyn Museum are historic and reflect a growing solidarity between Black Lives Matter activists and the LGBTQ community. But from its earliest days, Trans people of color, Fancy Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, helped lead the fight for the modern gay rights movement that exploded after the Stonewall Riots in 1969.
What You Need To Know
- During the current protests, the voices of black, brown and trans people, especially trans people of color, are being elevated after being marginalized for so long.
- The current coming together of Black Lives Matter marches and Lgbtq+ fest demonstrations are historic, but the shared ground for rally goes back decades.
- Many marginalized groups endure similar hardships including poor healthcare, housing and employment discrimination, and violence.
- Reclaim Identity festival NYC is organizing a Queer Liberation March in sustain of Black Lives Matter and against police brutality June 28th.
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The Deep Connections Between Event and Black Lives Matter
On June 27, 1969, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn in Recent York City touched off a series of protests and militant actions that would come to be called the Stonewall Riots.
The uprising was sparked by constant police harassment and repression of the LGBTQ community. From that moment on, Pride was about protest.
Now – 51 years later – people are once again in the streets, protesting police brutality. The fact that these Black Lives Matter protests are happening during LGBTQ Pride month highlights the links between these two movements. Both are struggling for liberation.
These coalitions illustrate strength from one another. We saw this earlier this month when 15,000 people came together for the Brooklyn Liberation pride and rally for Shadowy Trans Lives.
One of the speakers at the rally was Melania Brown, sister of Layleen Polanco, a trans woman of hue who died of neglect in a solitary cell at Rikers Island. She died after guards placed her in severe isolation despite her epilepsy.
“Black gender non-conforming lives matter! My sister’s life mattered!” Brown said in her speech at the rally. “If one goes down, we all go down — and I’m not
From Gay Fascism to Inky Lives Matter: Historicizing the Queer Politics of Race in Contemporary Germany
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970 tells the story of how, in the aftermath of gay liberation, race played a pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of queer, German politics. Focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher Ewing charts both the entrenchment of racisms within white, queer scenes and the formation of novel, antiracist movements that contested overlapping marginalizations.
German politics threaten to swing radically to the right. Recent polls have favored the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has won popularity in part on punitive anti-immigration measures, potentially even inclusive of mass deportation of racialized groups. While many LGBTQ organizations possess joined with other groups to fight the hazardous racism of a right-wing resurgence, other queer groups and even politicians own openly expressed anxieties that the alleged Islamicization of Germany threatens queers. Even the leader of the Alternative for Germany, Alice Weidel, is her
50 years of change: Black Lives Matter protests and the LGBTQ movement
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From the start, Black Lives Matter has been about LGBTQ lives
From the initiate, the founders of Jet Lives Matter have always put LGBTQ voices at the center of the conversation. The movement was founded by three Dark women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of whom spot as queer.
By design, the movement they started in 2013 has remained natural, grassroots and diffuse. Since then, many of the largest Black Lives Matter protests have been fueled by the violence against Black men, including Mike Brown and Eric Garner in 2015, and now George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.
But it's not only straight, cisgender Black men who are dying at the hands of police. Last month, a Jet transgender man, Tony McDade, 38, was shot and killed by police in Tallahassee.
On June 9, two Black transgender women, Riah Milton and Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, also were killed in separate acts of violence, their killings believed to be the 13th and 14th of transsexual or gender-non-conforming people this year, according to the Human Rights Coalition.
And in 2019, Layleen Polanco, a trans Latina woman who was an active member of New York’s Ballroom community,