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chyle, a lot of non-black queers have a lot of thoughts and opinions about how and when black people should protest. TWO UNARMED BLACK MEN HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY ASSASSINATED BY POLICE IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF DAYS and STILL some queers have the gaul to...

chyle, a lot of non-black queers have a lot of thoughts and opinions about how and when black people should protest. TWO UNARMED BLACK MEN HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY ASSASSINATED BY POLICE IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF DAYS and STILL some queers have the gaul to curb their mouths to say “protesting is not the answer. well let me share three things that "protesting” has provide us as queer and gay men.

1. because of the stonewall protest, WHICH WAS POLICE RIOT, you can dance and drink in a club without worrying about a police raid.

2. because queers yelled, screamed and protested the closing of bathhouses, you can suck dick at the baths.

3. many of us are ALIVE because queers protested THE MUTHA FUCKIN’ GOVERNMENT AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES for basic HIV treatment!

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so the next time you are twerking your ass off in the club, remember that protests provided you that privilege.

the next time you are sucking dick at the bathhouse, remember that protests provided you that privilege.

the next time you and/or your friends, family, or partner is taking their LIFE SAVING HIV MEDS, remember that protests provided ALL OF US this privilege.

so before you go damning, judging and condemning those who protests against systematic oppression, try coming out of your ivory towers and into the streets in honor of the trans women, fags, queers, dykes, gays, drag queens, freaks and everyone who protested so that so you could shake your asses at pride. MANY OF THEM DIDN’T EVEN LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO ENJOY THE PRIVILEGES YOU TAKE FOR GRANTED.

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advocate.com

Op-ed: We Will Not Be Silent About the 'Stonewall' Movie | Advocate.com

“We are angry because racism and transphobia continuously delegate us to supporting roles in history. We are angry because racism and transphobia fuels the many voices that are telling queer people of color that a boycott of Stonewall is extreme and that we should be grateful a movie about the Stonewall riots was even made. We are angry because highly influential gay white men are amused and angered by our anger and resentment of how intersecting forms of racism and transphobia create movies like Stonewall.”

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They waited for rain at night
And watched for the beauty
Of colors to strike
Because the hike from rock under
To knee deep in wonder
Can be a mutha fucker.
But they climbed
The more society’s time
Tried to melt them into the past
Hoping they’d grow mute, dumb and blind
Their shine was sublime and magnificent
Evident of all the praise, magic and glory
Because the children of the rainbow
Those that color now, tomorrow
And the ones who colored before me.
I can breathe life to countless stories
Of those who challenged
Governments bigger than satan
Refused to live a life full of grays
And stay complacent
They had peripheral vision
Not afraid of facing
Trials and tribulations
That stood adjacent
They carved a space in Stonewall
So that now the stones still fall.

We now stand in the streets
Cops threaten to beat
And burn the soles of our feet
I call Sylvia Rivera
Lead us to the revolution again
And guide us to the brink
Teach us to rethink all that we think we know
Help us find the strength
That we have so frivolously spent
Trying not show all that we are in our totality
This ain’t no formability
But our single human right
To fight and guide the quality of life
Set and rest, colored and re-colored
By those who let their magic flow
Like water, in and outside the rainbow
Bless the children who taught us
To the let fear and pain go
And never surrender
But live and speak with tongues not censored
Honor to those who waited for rain to break
To run into the wet street grass to play
With brick and steel
Combat boots and heels
To scream, vomit and speak of all the things
That no one will ever take away again.

Salute the screaming queens
Who were brave
Enough to save
their sanity and live beyond boundaries
Sylvia, surround me
Fill my raised fist with bang
Raise my voice and chant
Up and down Babylon
In red yellow fire, Sylvia!
I call you and all of the others
Who did not wash out with the rain
But stood in dresses and pants
And seized the moment and chance
To take a stand on the opposite site blue
And demand the respect that was due
Bless the children who fuckin’ broke through
Night sticks that painted them
And continue to paint us black and blue
Allow that resistance to run through
Our blood when we march, celebrate and parade
Praise the days and all of the ways
That children of the rainbow paint.

written by: louie a . ortiz-fonseca

in celebration of the stonewall riots, the birth place of the transgender, gay, lesbian, bisexual and queer revolution.

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On Friday evening, June 27, 1969, the New York City tactical police force raided a popular Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn. Raids were not unusual in 1969; in fact, they were conducted regularly without much resistance. However, that night the street erupted into violent protest as the crowds in the bar fought back. The backlash and several nights of protest that followed have come to… be known as the Stonewall Riots. This marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement that has transformed the oppression of the queer community into calls for pride and action.

Today we raise up all the courageous queens, dykes, trans*, men, women and allies who rioted at Stonewall so that the stones of oppression could fall. Love and light to the warriors in Ferguson and beyond who stand up against the wind so that freedom and power are experienced by everyone.

In Solidarity,

The Gran Varones Project
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