Even within the queer community, they are erased. Stonewall is insistently whitewashed and gaywashed by the mainstream gay rights movement; in reality, transgender women of color were at the center of the 1969 rebellion. For transgender folks, it often does not get better. We refuse the liberalizing projects of the mainstream gay rights movement not as a political choice but as a lived necessity. While the Human Rights Campaign continues to place the privileges of marriage on a pedestal, many of us are suffering from severe privation: poverty, unemployment, homelessness, suicide
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:53:07 +0000
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