Does black lives matter support the gay movement

On June 27, 1969, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn in New 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 unwavering 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 reality that these Inky Lives Matter protests are happening during LGBTQ Pride month highlights the links between these two movements. Both are struggling for liberation.

These coalitions draw energy from one another. We saw this earlier this month when 15,000 people came together for the Brooklyn Liberation march and rally for Black Transitioned Lives.

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

“Black trans lives matter! My sister’s animation mattered!” Brown said in her speech at the rally. “If one goes down, we all go down — and I’m not

Black Lives Matter forces LGBTQ organization to face its history of racial exclusion

LOS ANGELES — An estimated 30,000 people converged in West Hollywood on Sunday to protest systemic racism and police brutality and to shine light on the specific needs of Black LGBTQ people. The event — which took place just ahead of the 50th anniversary of L.A.'s first pride event, originally called the Christopher Street West Parade — started out as a Black Lives Matter solidarity march, but it ultimately showed the divisions between two overlapping civil rights movements.

The event's initial organizers found themselves the recipients of backlash when they announced their plans in early June: Christopher Highway West, or CSW, the historic, mostly white-led company that typically produces the annual LA Pride Festival and Parade, never reached out to coordinate with Black Lives Matter activists about the march. In addition, it hired an event organizer who applied for a police approve for the parade — a move seen as offensive by many Inky activists in the midst of anti-brutality protests.

For many people at the rally Sunday, the backlash highlighted how the growing Dark Lives Matter movem

Black Lives Matter: From social media upload to global movement

A slogan chanted by tens of thousands around the earth, Black Lives Matter has sparked a hashtag, a network of grass-roots organisations, and a moral collective of activists.

But how did it go from a social media send to a global phenomenon, and where does it move now?

The names most associated with Shadowy Lives Matter are not its leaders but the victims who have drawn attention to the massive issues of racism this territory grapples with: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, to designate a few.

The movement can be traced back to 2013, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Florida.

The 17-year-old had been returning from a shop after buying sweets and iced tea. Mr Zimmerman claimed the unarmed ebony teenager had looked suspicious.

There was outrage when he was found not responsible of murder, and a Facebook display entitled "Black Lives Matter" captured a mood and sparked action.

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"Seven years ago, we were called together. There were about 30 of us standing in the courtyard of this black artist group in Los Angeles,

From the start, Black Lives Matter has been about LGBTQ lives

From the launch, the founders of Dark 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 distinguish 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 Ebony 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 trans person 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,