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The Deep Connections Between Identity and Black Lives Matter

On June 27, 1969, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn in Novel 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 doodle strength from one another. We saw this earlier this month when 15,000 people came together for the Brooklyn Liberation rally and rally for Shadowy Trans Lives.

One of the speakers at the rally was Melania Brown, sister of Layleen Polanco, a trans woman of shade who died of neglect in a solitary cell at Rikers Island. She died after guards placed her in severe isolation despite her epilepsy.

“Black transsexual 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 blm fight against lgbtq

From Gay Fascism to Black Lives Matter: Historicizing the Gender non-conforming 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 essential 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 new, 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 have linked with other groups to fight the dangerous racism of a right-wing resurgence, other queer groups and even politicians have openly expressed anxieties that the alleged Islamicization of Germany threatens queers. Even the chief 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 begin, the founders of Inky Lives Matter have always put LGBTQ voices at the center of the conversation. The movement was founded by three Inky women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of whom recognize 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 Inky 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 non-binary 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,

    LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter Activists Show Solidarity

    Protests at the Stonewall Inn against police brutality and a massive Black Trans Lives Matter march in front of the Brooklyn Museum are historic and demonstrate a growing solidarity between Black Lives Matter activists and the LGBTQ society. But from its earliest days, Trans people of color, Like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, helped lead the struggle for the modern queer rights movement that exploded after the Stonewall Riots in 1969. 

    What You Demand To Know


    • During the current protests, the voices of black, brown and transitioned people, especially trans people of color, are existence elevated after being marginalized for so long.

    • The current coming together of Ebony Lives Matter marches and Pride demonstrations are historic, but the common basis for protest goes support decades.

    • Many marginalized groups experience similar hardships including underprivileged healthcare, housing and employment discrimination, and violence. 

    • Reclaim Celebration NYC is organizing a Queer Liberation March in support of Black Lives Matter and against police brutality June 28th. 

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