Tag: lgbtqa

maceson:

fiercetransgirls:

Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclusion in 1973 at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally (x)

this caption is incredibly misleading.

this isn’t sylvia rivera “calling out gays and lesbians.”

watch the linked video.

this is sylvia rivera calling out the white middle class, mainstream gay rights movement for not doing shit for the most at risk people of the community, like trans folks (particularly trans women), poor and homeless folks, poc (particularly black folks), drug users, etc.

the caption above seems really reductive and ignores the fact that the lesbian, gay, AND bi folks she was calling out were majority cis, WHITE, middle class people.

There are so many posts, conversations happening about Orlando, so much anger and hurt and I wish we had arms big enough to hold each other, around the world – saccharine as that may sound.  Our community, all that we are as human beings, and all we have tried to stand for, all we have tried to be for one another, the very goodness of it, at its heart, has been brutalised, once again, and beautiful lives were taken from us.  We have fought uphill against the unkindness and ignorance of this world with the only weapon we’ve ever had: love.  Love must be our legacy, now and always.  

Hold who you can and never stop fighting.