COLUMBUS, Ohio – As they reflect on their own fight for equal rights, members of Ohio’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (or queer) community are standing with people fighting for racial justice.
June is Pride Month, which was born out of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York. Grant Stancliff, communications manager with Equality Ohio, explains there were six days of demonstrations, protesting discrimination against LGBT individuals and the persistent police raids of bars and clubs frequented by members of the gay community.
“In particular, LGBTQ people of color said, ‘No more,'” says Stancliff. “They fought back. They stood up to the police. They said that, ‘This is our space, and we aren’t going to take this harassment and bullying anymore.'”
Members and leaders of civil-rights organizations, including Equality Ohio, have signed a pledge to oppose racism and white supremacy and to take action in supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Meanwhile, many Pride Month activities have been cancelled or delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Other events have shifted to virtual forums, including Equality Ohio’s 15th anniversary celebration on Friday, June 26.
Stancliff says the current uprising sparked by the death of George Floyd requires a commitment to embrace anti-racism as a crucial component in achieving full equality for LGBTQ people. He adds it’s calling the need for many systems and institutions into question.
“For our community, the issue of police violence is paramount, it’s urgent and it’s deadly,” says Stancliff. “We know that LGBTQ people are over-represented the criminal justice system, particularly LGBT people of color. And at this moment in time, it’s really a matter of life and death.”
Stancliff notes that advocates continue to work on policies that support equality, including The Ohio Fairness Act – HB 369 and SB 11. The bipartisan legislation would provide protections for LGBTQ residents in employment, housing and services.
This article appears in Jun 10-16, 2020.
Wait, LGBTQ is a Race now? or they’ve been co-opted by other forces armed with George Soros funneled cash to do his bidding?
I think we all know the answer?
Caucasoid must be thrilled! Now he can jump right out of the closet and introduce his white partner to all his black friends without fear.
oh you’re gay? You must fight for blacks.
So the gay people lost their pride event and march due to covid but you’re telling them to go to the streets with strangers for black causes? OK thats not fair. Gay people are marginalized too. What about the black trans woman beaten by rioters?
Imagine basing your entire individual identity on the color of your skin, your sexual orientation, your gender or your religion.
Then imagine how easily you could be manipulated by people that control information.
I support the idea of “Black Lives Matter”, which is why the Black Genocide or the killing of millions of African-American unborn babies for profit should be made illegal.
For instance, the leading cause of death for African-Americans is not violent crime, accidents, cancer, or heart disease.
Instead, it is abortion, which is greater than all of these other causes of African-American mortality combined
According to BlackGenocide.org’s website, 1,876 unborn black babies are aborted every day in America, and since 1973, about 16 million unborn black babies have been intentionally killed.
If you want to see some shocking statistics about how abortion has resulted in the U.S. African-American population being slashed by 1/4th, check out BlackGenocide.org .
Pink lives matter!
We owe Pride month to LBGTQ Black Folks………………
The majority of people arrested at Stonewall was Black LBGTQ………………….
police brutality and misconduct excessive force by Rogue Cops led to the Riot……..
It was Black Folks Civil Right Struggle that gave birth to White Folk gay marriage
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It was Hobama the first Gay president that sign Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
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Black transgender people face severe White Racism , Violence & Harassment by Hateful Whites MAGA NUTS…….
Ed Buck an LGBTQ political activist and Demo-rat political fundraiser prey on Young lbgtq
African-America
Homophobia in the Black Community is a Myth !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Memo to my Stalkers……………
I am an Black Heterosexual Male…………….
I don’t due ALBINO BIMBOS………………………
if there were actually white supremacists or maga nuts issuing beatings to these people, it would never leave the news cycle. Instead violence from leftists is excused as justified anger. If whites are so racist why isnt there a huge population of Asians incarcerated? Why not native Americans? I think it’s because people like caucaso8d and other leftists used skewed statistics and leave out any info that goes against their bizarre pity party narrative.
Memo to caucsold (Lamar)
It’s perfectly ok now you can come out.
You can stop pretending to be angry black dude.
No more need to pretend.
LGBTQ ???
What about the Anti-sexuals? And the Trinary-sexuals? And the What the Hell Is Sex?-uals?
Yeah, you don’t care one bit about them, do you?
Splitters !
Often the one who finds the body was the one guilty of murder. Here its the same. The leftists and democrats have been guilty of creating and profiting from systemic racism of blacks for years and now their accusing others of doing this. Look at the cities where blacks are suffering the worst, they are democrat run cities and have been for decades. The democrats did this to the blacks. The Democrat demonrats did this to cleveland.