Anti-LGBTQ+ protestors posted personal information about Snyder and her children online for others to harass and threaten them. Snyder expressed that the reason she had to cancel was due to feeling scared for her safety. However, the event has been canceled this year. Last year, Keizer had its first pride fair which was organized by Claire Snyder. It created new discussions about gay rights and apparent homophobia that was and still is in the world. The riots led to numerous pride organizations that focus on protecting and helping LGBTQ+ individuals. It is important that while celebrating LGBTQ+ pride this month, we also honor and respect black and Latinx trans women who fought for gay and trans rights.
Her body was found in the Hudson River and ruled as a suicide, even though her friends and acquaintances disagree. In 1970, Sylvia Rivera, a Puerto Rican trans woman who was friends with Johnson, came to Johnson with the idea of creating an organization that would help get young trans people off the streets called Street Transvestite Activist Revolutionaries (STAR).Įventually, Johnson became known as “Saint Marsha” and continued to be an activist for the LGBTQ+ community until she lost her life on July 6, 1992. Johnson, along with hundreds of gay and trans individuals, started fighting back and protesting.Īfterwards, Johnson started going to meetings and rallies for gay and trans rights. Johnson, a black trans woman and gay liberation activist, was on the frontlines of the riot. 13 people were then arrested for violating discriminatory laws. On June 28, 1969, there was a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village. The Stonewall Riots is a crucial aspect of the LGBTQ+ community’s history, as it completely changed what rights gay and trans people have. Letourneau (R-Dulles) absent.June is LGBTQ+ pride month which celebrates different sexualities, gender identities and focuses on educating ourselves and others about the history of the community. Supervisors passed the resolution 6-1-2, with Kershner opposed and Supervisors Tony R.
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“We call ourselves the land of the free and the brave, but how free is LGBTQI community or individual when the government is literally trying to disappear them, take them out of the books, take them out of our movies, take them out of anywhere?” said Supervisor Juli E.
Other supervisors pointed to high incidences of discrimination against LGBT people. “The gay-lesbian community play a very vital part in our, in America, they truly do, and quite frankly they should not be treated any different than anybody else,” he added, despite arguing “normalizing” them is controversial. And one is, of course, to normalize certain sexual activity that many people don’t agree with, and that makes it in and itself controversial,” Kershner said. “I think what we’re trying, in many ways, I think the books in our schools, resolutions that are adopted by governing bodies like this, are really two-fold. Kershner said the resolution violated the board’s Rules of Order, which hold that resolutions should be non-controversial. I have also continually seen gay literature skewed as evil books that must be banned.” Transgender people were used as scapegoats and scare tactics for a tragic event that occurred in a Broad Run District school with the transgender aspect later turning out to be a fabricated piece of information. “Especially this last year, the LGBTQ community has been continually attacked. So I’m always perplexed as to why recognizing the LGBTQ+ community is somehow a problem,” Glass said. “There’s never been an issue with a Black History Month proclamation, Women’s History Month proclamation, the AAPI Heritage Month proclamation, or any other general group proclamation.