Some tidbits to mull on:
-Out of all the actions & hate-filled people we have encountered, Our organizers, many of whom are LGBT-identified, have rate felt such vile hate, as we did when a bunch of white LGBT folks were shouting "all lives matter" at our protestors, and other chants with the intention of taunting and riling up our peeps
-The artist of the Police/LGBT Mural was one of the people who started said chant and taunting. How fitting that he, who was tasked with creating a fantasy of good relations between the police and the LGBT community, showed his anti-black racism.
In the conversation re: Policing and LGBT spaces, which voices are missing? Who gets to be safe? Whose voices get to be amplified?
Where is the outrage for the surveilled, harassed, and criminalized LGBT Black & Indigenous community members?
For the countless LGBT people, from various vulnerable communities, whose presence at Pride will be compromised by increased surveillance/policing?
Who've been terrorized by TAVIS?
Whose spaces in Pride have been jeopardized (Fruitloopz, BQY-Black Queer Youth stage, etc.)
Whose constant presence (and brilliance) are undermined by a community hat is increasingly white, middle class, and apolitical?
Say it with us:
#AllBlackLivesMatter #BlackQueerLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
