LGBTQ activists in NYC, LA reimagine pride marches as solidarity protests

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The organizers of the annual LA Pride Festival and Parade announced they would revive their June 14 centerpiece event as a 'solidarity protest march' with the black community 'in response to racial injustice, systemic racism, and all forms of oppression.'

The first Los Angeles pride march was held in 1970 just after New York City's first march, which was then called the Christopher Street Liberation Day march — hence the Los Angeles event's name, Christopher Street West. This year marks the 50th anniversaries of both cities' inaugural pride marches.

The first pride marches were held to mark the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, widely considered to be a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ rights movement.In a video posted on Facebook, Ashlee Marie Preston, a Los Angeles-based black trans activist and former Christopher Street West board member, said she and other Los Angeles-based black queer activists were unaware of plans to hold a"Black Lives Matter solidarity march.

In an interview Thursday, she said it would have been"tone deaf" not to mention the recent protests, and she noted that LA Pride organizers have yet to state whether there will be a police or sheriff's presence at the march. LA Pride"has been asked many times, even when I was on the board, to not have the sheriff or police present," Preston said."At a time when police brutality is at the center, that guarantee hasn't been made.

 

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NBC supports everything BUT mainstream Americans.

When black lives matter, all lives can matter. Not before.

Should be canceled due to the made up China Virus.....

In other news, festivals in Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and Kentucky are still dedicated to white people with disposable incomes and narcissisistic tendencies.

What about the ‘rona?

Democrats are playing minorities like a fiddle..

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This world has lost it's moral compass. I would not blame God if he chose to destroy the world right now.

Soros, Soros, Soros

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So covid19 is over? If not then to show my solidarity I wanna return to work to PROVIDE FOOD AND FUCKING SHELTER FOR MY FAMILY!

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