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Posted from @lgbt_history “BLACK GAYS UNITE,”

Posted from @lgbt_history “BLACK GAYS UNITE,” Christopher Street West, Los Angeles, June 29, 1975. Photo by Pat Rocco, c/o @onearchives. #HavePrideInHistory

Posted from @lgbt_history “When you read in the

Posted from @lgbt_history “When you read in the paper that some gay person turned over the police car, you know, it was Sylvia. She was their energy. Sylvia was gay liberation.” – Lee Brewster, 1994
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Picture: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera, Christopher Street Liberation Day, June 24, 1973. Photo by Leonard Fink, c/o @lgbtcenternyc.
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In 1973, long-simmering tensions boiled over in queer communities around the US. In April, for example, the groundbreaking West Coast Lesbian Conference—attended by activists from around the country—plunged into chaos as a group of radical separatists unsuccessfully demanded the exclusion of longtime lesbian activist (and openly transgender woman) Beth Elliott. In San Francisco, Ray Broshear’s radical demands for representation angered virtually everyone. And L.A.’s Pride march was cancelled due to seemingly irreconcilable differences between, among others, militants and moderates.
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On June 24, 1973, 47 years ago today, at New York City’s Christopher Street Liberation Day, disagreements about the scope and purpose of the liberation struggle exploded as Sylvia Rivera fought her way to the stage to address the queer community about “your gay brothers and gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help, [while] you all don’t do a goddamn thing for them.” Importantly, Sylvia’s message focused on the abandonment of incarcerated queer people (many, if not most, of whom had been arrested on discriminatory charges related to the violation of oppressive gender norms). But lesbian activist Jean O’Leary, who followed Rivera with a statement about “the exploitation of women” by “men in drag” (a term specifically used to erase transgender women), turned the attention away from liberating the incarcerated and toward excluding trans and genderqueer people.
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More than ever, it’s essential to recognize the links between respectability politics, transphobia, racism, the police state, and the prison industrial complex. The queer liberation struggle has always been hindered by moderate demands for assimilation, those that rely on adhering to oppressive rules set and enforced by the dominant culture.

If you’re out protesting, check out these safety

If you’re out protesting, check out these safety tips! LINK IN @gsanetwork bio! Posted @withregram • @gsanetwork Before you join a protest this summer, check out our NEW RESOURCE — Pride & Protest: Safety Tips for LGBTQ+ Youth—to learn ✊how to prepare a protest safety plan ✊what to do if you are arrested & detained ✊what to do if police use violent tactics ✊an overview of protesters' rights ✊and legal & bail support info. Link in bio!

Today is the last day to signup for this book club

Today is the last day to signup for this book club which starts tomorrow! Join us by filling out the form, we have few spaces left and are prioritizing QT black and POC youth! ☀️ Posted @withregram • @lifeworksla Starting next Tuesday!! Join our wonderful @cancoalitionla as they introduce their new Self Love Bookclub. In this book club, they will be reading bell hooks’s book All About Love and connecting to their own journeys with self-love. This includes weekly expression prompts, discussion, and time to create together. This group is for folks 16-24, with priority to QTPOC! Space is limited, so sign up as soon as possible. More information can also be found at: www.lalgbtcenter.org/canselflove
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How are you celebrating or showing solidarity toda

How are you celebrating or showing solidarity today? 🌈

Posted @withregram • @themshealth Sharing @prgirlmanifesto for #Juneteenth: “June 19, 1865 marks the day when news of emancipation and the Civil War’s end finally reached America’s last group of [enslaved people], in Galveston, Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

In many ways, Juneteenth represents how freedom and justice in the US has always been delayed for Black people, and still is. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the US, and marked true freedom and independence for all Americans.

Yet this day is not nationally recognized in the way Independence Day is nor is it taught in most schools.

HOW YOU CAN CELEBRATE: • Demand your schools, workplaces, and elected officials recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday.
• Learn about the history of Juneteenth and talk with those around you about its significance.
• Support + buy from Black-owned businesses, mutual aid funds, etc.
• Research your own ways to honor the holiday and amplify Black voices, organizations, creators, etc .
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