Feminism is about supporting the rights of all women-including trans women of color and including sex workers. The presence of TERFs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists) and SWERFs (Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminists) at LGTBQ events creates an unsafe space.
The contested involvement of police in Pride Parades courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons. It's not about the roots of why Pride was started, and it's not about the people who started it anymore, the who took it to the streets and made this a thing." Writer and activitist Kollaritsch told The Chicagoist, "Pride has become a very heterosexual spectacle nowadays. They also point out that in Chicago, the amount of corporate floats greatly outweighed the floats of LGBTQ groups. This rate is three times higher than the general population. The Chicagoist points out the additional hypocrisy of alcohol companies frequently sponsoring Pride events since over 30% of the LGBTQ community struggles with drugs and alcohol addiction. There has also been upset over Pride parades using major banks, such as Well's Fargo, because they have a history of investing in private prisons that incarcerate LGBTQ and persons of color at higher rates. According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 16% of transgender adults have been in a prison or jail for any reason, while only 2.7% of adults in the general population have ever been to prison, and 10.2% of adults have been under any type of criminal supervision or probation. Isa Noyala, a transgender Latina activist, told The Guardian, "It's ironic to walk alongside tech companies that have displaced us." The Guardian writes that many queer people have decided not to attend the Pride parade in San Fransisco because many of their main sponsers, such as Facebook, Google, Uber and Lyft, are part of the tech industry, which is a huge player in income inequality. As The Establishment writes, major corporations that create products with the rainbow flag make it easy for people to show support, but does not actually enact change. The original message behind pride has become diluted in recent years with a much more capitalist agenda coming to the forefront. Taken by Zoë Naseef at NYC Pride Parade 2016. GLF fought for the sexual revolution and an anti-capitalist agenda to combat violence and discrimination against the LGBTQ community. Rivera and other sex workers joined Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in an attempt to create a coalition of leftist queer folk. Both of their lives were dedicated to fighting for equal rights through any means necessary. NYC Pride Parade 2011, from Flickr Creative Commons.Īlthough she had spearheaded of the movement, Rivera had to fight to speak during a 1973 pride rally because, as Melinda Chateauvert writes in her book Sex Workers Unite, “The crowd did not want to hear from a transgender sex worker.” You can view footage of Rivera being booed while trying to speak stage at a Pride rally in New York City here:įollowing the riot, Johnson and Rivera co-founded the organization Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970, which was a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens and trans women of color. By two years after the riots, there were gay rights groups in every major U.S.
One year after the riots, the first gay pride parades were held. 那么我们假设,现在有 M={m1 ,m2,m3,….,mx}序列和 N = {n1,n2,n3,….This initial Stonewall riot ignited people across New York City and became several nights of rioting against police brutality.