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| New York leads way as Pride marches mark 50 years since Stonewall – live | New York leads way as Pride marches mark 50 years since Stonewall – live |
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| Well, the weather that has been threatening Chicago has finally taken its toll: the remainder of the parade has been canceled due to thunderstorms, the AP reported. Still, participants were able to get a few hours in to mark the occasion. | |
| Reuters has filed a report on a confrontation at the Stonewall Inn today which, taken as illustrative of tensions within LGBTQ ranks, excited much comment . Here’s a taste: | |
| A black transgender woman wanted to be heard, but the white men wanted to celebrate. | |
| The scene at New York City’s Stonewall Inn on Saturday, as reported by multiple witnesses on social media, showed how long-simmering tensions between transgender women of color and white gay men have boiled over during the celebration of World Pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. | |
| The unidentified woman wanted to address the crowd inside the Greenwich Village gay bar where patrons fought back against police harassment 50 years ago, birthing the LGBTQ movement. She arrived unannounced and disrupted a drag show, drawing an unfriendly response at first. The crowd eventually warmed and she was given the microphone and spoke for 12 minutes. | |
| “She read the names of the black trans women who died. Facts about them. Their obituaries. She called on everyone in the bar to help. I would like to say the audience was respectful, but there was quite a bit of chatter and a few jeers,” witness Aspen Eberhardt, finance manager of the gay rights group PFLAG, wrote on Twitter. | |
| Reuters goes on to note that “transgender women of color … [suffer] from higher levels of unemployment and homelessness [than] their cisgender gay and lesbian brethren”. It also points out that “trans women are often the target of violence. Some 65 transgender people, nearly all trans women of color, have been murdered in the United States since 2017, according to Human Rights Watch”. | |
| For the Guardian, Tom Dart has reported extensively from Texas on such murders and the toll they take: | |
| Murders of three trans women in Texas underline increasing dangers across US | |
| Both New York parades have paid their respects at the Stonewall Inn: | Both New York parades have paid their respects at the Stonewall Inn: |
| While New York’s governor takes action against the “gay and trans panic legal defense”, the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, has signed an executive order to create a taskforce on trans students’ rights. From the Associated Press: | While New York’s governor takes action against the “gay and trans panic legal defense”, the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, has signed an executive order to create a taskforce on trans students’ rights. From the Associated Press: |
| The order also directs the State Board of Education on related issues, including publishing resources on the legal rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming students. | The order also directs the State Board of Education on related issues, including publishing resources on the legal rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming students. |
| The taskforce will be made up of 25 people appointed by Pritzker. They’ll study what schools are doing to promote LGBTQ rights to make sure students have “welcoming” and “inclusive” environments. Their report is due in January 2020. | The taskforce will be made up of 25 people appointed by Pritzker. They’ll study what schools are doing to promote LGBTQ rights to make sure students have “welcoming” and “inclusive” environments. Their report is due in January 2020. |
| The advocacy group Equality Illinois calls it a positive step, but says stronger statewide protections are needed. | The advocacy group Equality Illinois calls it a positive step, but says stronger statewide protections are needed. |
| Decades before Stonewall, New York was home to a remarkable cultural exchange, as Michael Henry Adams writes for the Guardian today. For black Harlemites visiting Britain, and for Brits visiting Harlem in return, “an LGBTQ identity could sometimes, just sometimes, act like a remarkable passport”. | Decades before Stonewall, New York was home to a remarkable cultural exchange, as Michael Henry Adams writes for the Guardian today. For black Harlemites visiting Britain, and for Brits visiting Harlem in return, “an LGBTQ identity could sometimes, just sometimes, act like a remarkable passport”. |
| Harlem in the 1920s and 30s was a bohemian destination, drawing the likes of Douglas Byng, Lady Louis Mountbatten, and Cary Grant. But all was not well… | Harlem in the 1920s and 30s was a bohemian destination, drawing the likes of Douglas Byng, Lady Louis Mountbatten, and Cary Grant. But all was not well… |
| We've been to a marvelous party: when gay Harlem met queer Britain | We've been to a marvelous party: when gay Harlem met queer Britain |
| Back in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo marked the day by outlawing the “gay and trans panic legal defense”. | Back in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo marked the day by outlawing the “gay and trans panic legal defense”. |
| Previously, Cuomo’s office said, those accused of violent crimes against LGBTQ people could seek a less severe sentence or even avoid conviction “by placing the blame on a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity”. | Previously, Cuomo’s office said, those accused of violent crimes against LGBTQ people could seek a less severe sentence or even avoid conviction “by placing the blame on a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity”. |
| “The gay and trans panic defense is essentially a codification of homophobia and transphobia and it is repugnant to our values of equality and inclusion,” Cuomo said in the statement. “This defense strategy isn’t just offensive – it also sends a dangerous message that violence toward LGBTQ people is somehow OK. | “The gay and trans panic defense is essentially a codification of homophobia and transphobia and it is repugnant to our values of equality and inclusion,” Cuomo said in the statement. “This defense strategy isn’t just offensive – it also sends a dangerous message that violence toward LGBTQ people is somehow OK. |
| “It’s not, and today we’re sending this noxious legal tool to the dustbin of history where it belongs.” | “It’s not, and today we’re sending this noxious legal tool to the dustbin of history where it belongs.” |
| Read Victoria Bekiempis’s full report: | Read Victoria Bekiempis’s full report: |
| New York leads Pride parades as LGBTQ activists debate state of movement | New York leads Pride parades as LGBTQ activists debate state of movement |
| After a more than half-hour stoppage, the San Francisco parade has begun again. | |
| Demonstrators call for an end to policing of the parade (note: this video contains strong language). | Demonstrators call for an end to policing of the parade (note: this video contains strong language). |
| Protesters making demands at Pride Parade: requesting no police and no corporations at Pride pic.twitter.com/ukzWkqeuyr | Protesters making demands at Pride Parade: requesting no police and no corporations at Pride pic.twitter.com/ukzWkqeuyr |
| At least one demonstrator appears to have been arrested in San Francisco, according to the Chronicle, which notes that the parade is facing a backup while protesters join arms through rainbow-colored tubing. | At least one demonstrator appears to have been arrested in San Francisco, according to the Chronicle, which notes that the parade is facing a backup while protesters join arms through rainbow-colored tubing. |
| Those concerns over police are in the spotlight as demonstrators block parts of the parade route in San Francisco: | Those concerns over police are in the spotlight as demonstrators block parts of the parade route in San Francisco: |
| Breaking: Demonstrators protesting police in #SFPride Parade block route near Market and Taylor pic.twitter.com/5y8XFFOlTL | Breaking: Demonstrators protesting police in #SFPride Parade block route near Market and Taylor pic.twitter.com/5y8XFFOlTL |
| “We will not rest until we have a pride free from police and toxic corporations that do not support our communities,” says a letter from the demonstrators, noting that policing “upholds white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, gender binaries and capitalist rule”. They call for the release of trans people held in the SF jail; the centering of marginalized black and brown trans women; an end to harassment of homeless people; and improved accessibility for disabled people, among other concerns. | “We will not rest until we have a pride free from police and toxic corporations that do not support our communities,” says a letter from the demonstrators, noting that policing “upholds white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, gender binaries and capitalist rule”. They call for the release of trans people held in the SF jail; the centering of marginalized black and brown trans women; an end to harassment of homeless people; and improved accessibility for disabled people, among other concerns. |
| Breaking: Demonstrators protesting police in #SFPride Parade block route near Market and Taylor pic.twitter.com/5y8XFFOlTL | Breaking: Demonstrators protesting police in #SFPride Parade block route near Market and Taylor pic.twitter.com/5y8XFFOlTL |
| Kamala Harris, California senator and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, greeted another prominent California Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, before the parade this morning. | Kamala Harris, California senator and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, greeted another prominent California Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, before the parade this morning. |
| To deafening cheers, @KamalaHarris greets @SpeakerPelosi at #PRIDE in SF pic.twitter.com/knw8WBRa6r | To deafening cheers, @KamalaHarris greets @SpeakerPelosi at #PRIDE in SF pic.twitter.com/knw8WBRa6r |
| “We remember those who marched at Stonewall,” Harris said, according to the San Francisco Examiner. “We remember those who marched on Polk street in the first Pride parade.” | “We remember those who marched at Stonewall,” Harris said, according to the San Francisco Examiner. “We remember those who marched on Polk street in the first Pride parade.” |
| "We need to prosecute the case against four more years of Donald Trump!" @KamalaHarris tore into @realDonaldTrump's "rap sheet" against LGBTQ cmty at an #SFPride #Pride2019 breakfast this morning, including banning trans people from serving, silence on hate crimes, & more. pic.twitter.com/V8Yg9XEsgr | "We need to prosecute the case against four more years of Donald Trump!" @KamalaHarris tore into @realDonaldTrump's "rap sheet" against LGBTQ cmty at an #SFPride #Pride2019 breakfast this morning, including banning trans people from serving, silence on hate crimes, & more. pic.twitter.com/V8Yg9XEsgr |
| It was the Stonewall clash with police that fueled the modern gay rights movement, and the question of policing has loomed large over Pride marches this year. | It was the Stonewall clash with police that fueled the modern gay rights movement, and the question of policing has loomed large over Pride marches this year. |
| Indya Moore of TV’s Pose, one of the grand marshals of New York’s larger parade, highlighted concerns in a news conference: “I wonder if they’re here to protect us or if they’re here to police us. Maybe to make sure we don’t riot again? I’m not sure.” | Indya Moore of TV’s Pose, one of the grand marshals of New York’s larger parade, highlighted concerns in a news conference: “I wonder if they’re here to protect us or if they’re here to police us. Maybe to make sure we don’t riot again? I’m not sure.” |
| New York’s smaller Queer Liberation March has rejected NYPD policing, opting instead for its own private security. And yesterday’s Dyke March in San Francisco saw firm opposition to police: | New York’s smaller Queer Liberation March has rejected NYPD policing, opting instead for its own private security. And yesterday’s Dyke March in San Francisco saw firm opposition to police: |
| Cops out of Pride protest at SF Dyke March pic.twitter.com/UStYQstPbY | Cops out of Pride protest at SF Dyke March pic.twitter.com/UStYQstPbY |
| They’re just a few examples of a broader backlash, as my colleague Sam Levin writes, noting that some activists are skipping San Francisco Pride over concerns it has been co-opted by police and corporations. “The efforts to remove policing from Pride are really efforts to ensure safety for the communities that are there. It’s a protective act. It’s an act of resistance,” Malkia Devich Cyril told the Guardian. | They’re just a few examples of a broader backlash, as my colleague Sam Levin writes, noting that some activists are skipping San Francisco Pride over concerns it has been co-opted by police and corporations. “The efforts to remove policing from Pride are really efforts to ensure safety for the communities that are there. It’s a protective act. It’s an act of resistance,” Malkia Devich Cyril told the Guardian. |
| 'Police are a force of terror': the LGBT activists who want cops out of Pride | 'Police are a force of terror': the LGBT activists who want cops out of Pride |
| And the parade has begun in San Francisco, longtime cradle of LGBTQ activism. Kicking things off are the celebrated Dykes on Bikes, whose roaring motorcycles set the tone for a festive day. | And the parade has begun in San Francisco, longtime cradle of LGBTQ activism. Kicking things off are the celebrated Dykes on Bikes, whose roaring motorcycles set the tone for a festive day. |
| Chicago’s Pride celebration is under way despite concerns over weather, with crowds expected to reach one million. Leading the event is Lori Lightfoot, the city’s first openly LGBT mayor. | Chicago’s Pride celebration is under way despite concerns over weather, with crowds expected to reach one million. Leading the event is Lori Lightfoot, the city’s first openly LGBT mayor. |
| Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Pride: “Today is a great day and celebration and I am so humbled to be a part of it.” Reflecting on journey from longshot candidate last year to Chicago’s leader, she said “it feels like I’ve come a long way” and praised the city’s support and optimism pic.twitter.com/6uwdMLfYgM | Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Pride: “Today is a great day and celebration and I am so humbled to be a part of it.” Reflecting on journey from longshot candidate last year to Chicago’s leader, she said “it feels like I’ve come a long way” and praised the city’s support and optimism pic.twitter.com/6uwdMLfYgM |