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"For the people to publicly make a statement that they were gay or lbian was this enormo risk for them — they uld have lost everythg." * gay lives matter *

"We are a prime target bee of our Blackns, and our tersectnaly of beg trans adds an extra target on our backs, " said Jonovia Chase, -lead anizer of Hoe Liv Matter, a muny anizatn posed of sexual- and genr-mory people of said that although Black Liv Matter was "created by queer folks, [cisgenr] privilege has taken precent over gay and transgenr people. For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans.

It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years. That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist.

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Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End). Hodg cisn wouldn't be hand down for nearly two months; on this day, the jtic were hearg the platiffs were attemptg to tablish the right of same-sex upl to marry Kentucky, Michigan, Tennsee and Oh; the marriage-equaly activists who surround me were hopg the jtic would e the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protectn Clse not to jt affirm a right to marriage all fifty stat but also to create a feral precent unr which any number of other rights for LGBT people might be argued for the ClarkDpe the prence of a vol antigay aln—prised of Wtboro Baptist churchgoers, whe supremacists, and a group of Hasidic Jews, all of whom seemed largely foced on the timate tails of anal sex— was, for the most part, a joyo atmosphere.

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The scholar Lisa Duggan scrib such absorptn as homonormativy, "a polics that do not ntt domant heteronormative assumptns and stutns"—such as marriage and s ll for monogamy and reproductn—"but upholds and stas them while promisg the possibily of a mobilized gay nstuency and a privatized, policized gay culture anchored domticy and nsumptn.

As queer wrer Matt Comer poted out 2014, there was no shortage of gay people who "nmn the rtg the aftermath of extreme misrriag of jtice for black people, all the while ignorg the fact they gather once a year to openly celebrate and memorate a rt"—the three-night-long Stonewall rts—the "vlent outburst that served as the so-lled birth of their movement. The backlash began the nservative margs of the natn: The sprg of 2015 brought a challenge to gay rights Arkansas the form of a state Senate bill that, if passed, would prevent municipal-level modifitns to the state's civil-rights laws, which do not specifilly protect the LGBT muny.

THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS IS OVER

The stellar Black-n anizatns and servic are dited to valug and protectg trans, gay, non-bary liv, and more. How to donate and support. * gay lives matter *

This should have been—but was not—a wake-up ll to natnal gay-rights anizatns that their opponents had found a new method of attack and would be ployg all over the untry: Indiana next, and then North Carola, Mississippi, andthe eleven stat and untg whose cizens have lost their mds over bathroom e by trans did the Human Rights Campaign do so ltle to bat such legislatn until after passed? Yet bee those sufferg are disenanchised, the gay muny has not addrsed the crisis wh an ta of the real backlash massacre at Pulse Orlando, as wh so much vlence that befalls the LGBT muny this untry, overwhelmgly harmed queer people of lor—some nety percent of the victims were Lato.

Perhaps now there will be an urgent ll to addrs the many ways vlence harms parts of the LGBT muny, and a renewed mment not to rt on the lrels of marriage equaly but to attempt to undo NEW FACES OF LGBT RIGHTThe once-domant force of gay polics—formal anizatns loted fancy buildgs Washgton, D. Origal languageEnglish (US)Tle of host publitnBeyond the Polics of the ClosetSubtle of host publitnGay Rights and the Amerin State Sce the 1970sEdorsJonathan BellPlace of PublitnPhilalphiaPublisherUniversy of Pennsylvania PrsChapter6Pag118-138ISBN (Prt)9780812251852DOIs StatePublished - Aug 15 2020. As for the “Gay Liv Matter” posters, Amy Myngh, director of the Office of Stunt Involvement at the Catholic universy, nied them on the grounds that “g the same look/brand as BLM [Black Liv Matter] ps two margalized groups agast each other, ” acrdg to an email she sent to Turng Pot USA that was obtaed by The College Fix.

Even my own social group of psychotherapists specializg sexualy and relatnship issu, I posted on a private Facebook group about the role of radil Islam creatg the horrific ndns of the extermatn of homosexuals Chechnya, and stead of lively tellectual disurse, I was met wh hostile suatns about my attus towards Islam, maly by gay psychotherapists. Their work clus seekg to end the mass rceratn of Black trans women and the larger Black muny through keepg their lol ernments NOWBlack Trans Travel FundIn orr to ensure the safety of Black trans women when travelg, the Black Trans Travel Fund rais money and provis safe transportatn so they n travel whout NOWThe Audre Lor ProjectSce 1994, this anizatn has offered a safe muny center for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and genr non-nformg people of lor the New York Cy area.

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Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people; vlence and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, genr inty, sex characteristics * gay lives matter *

Held the "world’s first permted para advotg for gay rights, " a fact Christopher Street Wt still highlights on s webse to this Shalae, a Beyoncé impersonator who performed at the march, said that when she first moved to Los Angel, she uldn't persua whe-owned LGBTQ bars and clubs to book her for performanc. Before the march to Wt Hollywood began, the crowd gathered around a few flatbed tcks parked the middle of the street to listen to speakers support of gay and transgenr people of lor and to cheer the “All Black Liv Matter” theme of the speakers foced their attentn on lol elected officials, particularly Los Angel County Dist. The BLM movement goals are pecially relevant tnal discsns, as schools are not at all immune to the systemic hold of Whe supremacy that fuels crimalizatn of Black stunts and exacerbat vlence agast Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) stunts (Troung, Zongrone, & Kosciw, 2020).

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<span class="byle-name">Antonia Hylton</span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">LOS ANGELES — An timated 30,000 people nverged Wt Hollywood on Sunday to prott systemic racism and police btaly and to she light on the specific needs of Black LGBTQ people. The event — which took place jt ahead of the 50th anniversary of L.A.'s first pri event, origally lled the Christopher Street Wt Para — started out as a Black Liv Matter solidary march, but ultimately showed the divisns between two overlappg civil rights movements.</p><p class="">The event's ial anizers found themselv the recipients of backlash when they <a href=" target="_blank">announced their plans early June</a>: Christopher Street Wt, or CSW, the historic, mostly whe-led anizatn that typilly produc the annual LA Pri Ftival and Para, never reached out to ordate wh Black Liv Matter activists about the march. In addn, hired an event anizer who applied for a police perm for the para — a move seen as offensive by many Black activists the midst of anti-btaly protts.</p><div><sectn class="related related--sgle dn-prt" data-activy-map="related-article-body-related"><h3 class="related__tle">Related</h3><div id="related" class="related__ems"><div class="related-em related-em__sgle"><div class="related-em__thumbnail-wrapper"><a href=" data-icid="related" class="related-em__lk related-em__picture-lk"><picture class="related-em__thumbnail__image"><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="60" width="60"/></picture></a><span class="related-em__eyebrow"><a class="related-em__label" href="><span>NBC Out</span></a><a href=" data-icid="related"></a></span></div><div class="related-em__-wrapper"><h3 class="related-em__tle"><a class="" href="><span class="related-em__eyebrow">NBC Out</span></a><a href=" data-icid="related" class="related-em__lk">PRIDE 2020: OUT ON THE FRONTLINE</a></h3></div></div></div></sectn></div><p class="">For many people at the march Sunday, the backlash highlighted how the growg Black Liv Matter movement had the power to force ostensibly progrsive LGBTQ anizatns to grapple wh bld spots and long-unaddrsed histori of excln.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">CSW nceled s solidary march shortly after the backlash, and Gerald Garth, one of the few Black board members at CSW, formed a new uncil wh a group of Black LGBTQ lears. Together, they announced a new march, dubbed the "All Black Liv Matter" prott, whout CSW's volvement. The rult was Sunday's all-day event, featurg a march startg on Hollywood Boulevard and endg Wt Hollywood, as well as lively performanc, art and nonstop dancg.</p><p class=""><em><strong>"Puttg Prott Back Pri" origally aired on the Weekend Report on Quibi. <a href=">Watch the full vio here</a>.</strong></em></p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Image: Gerald Garth" height="1501" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Gerald Garth, right, one of the few Black board members at Christopher Street Wt, formed a new uncil wh a group of Black LGBTQ lears.</span><span class="ptn__source">Quibi</span></figptn></figure><p class="">"A big part of the nversatns that I had to have often was that even though thgs were well-tend, that didn't make any ls wrong or impactful," Garth told NBC News. "And pl, too, through the lens of CSW beg this legendary whe agency proposg this Black effort, [the] muny really received as CSW, you know, aimg to -opt or, you know, palize."</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Luckie Fuller, an artist and trans activist, said a formal police prence "would've kept people om g out here."</p><p class="">"It would've hred a lot of our voic, and would've dampened our voic," Fuller said.</p><p class="">Obtag a police perm for s annual event, however, is part of the 50-year history of L.A.'s annual pri celebratn. While New York held the very first pri march on June 28, 1970, later that same day, L.A. held the "<a href=" target="_blank">world’s first permted para advotg for gay rights</a>," a fact Christopher Street Wt still highlights on s webse to this day.</p><p class="">Miss Shalae, a Beyoncé impersonator who performed at the march, said that when she first moved to Los Angel, she uldn't persua whe-owned LGBTQ bars and clubs to book her for performanc. She didn't have fah that CSW would learn om mistak whout a change learship.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">"They're not givg a seat at the table, which I feel like is super important. How n you know what we want whout askg what we want?" Miss Shalae said. "And is fely a time for that to change, absolutely."</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Image: Madonna Cacciatore" height="1731" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Christopher Street Wt Executive Director Madonna Cacciatore, left, said the group is mted to makg sure an oversight like this year's don't happen aga.</span><span class="ptn__source">Quibi</span></figptn></figure><p class="">CSW's executive director, Madonna Cacciatore, said is mted to makg sure that don't happen aga. "And we're havg the hard nversatns now, to be hont wh you," she said. "Bee there's been a history, not only wh our anizatn, but, you know, everybody's beg asked to re-exame themselv and to look at ourselv through a different lens. We have been, you know, we always try to do the right thg. We sometim don't do well."</p><p class="">For some, the new march and the anizatn's apology were too ltle too late.</p><p class="">Ashlee Marie Prton, a Black trans wrer and former CSW board member, cid she wouldn't attend. "What ma me so trated about all of this is that I have direct relatnships wh people on the board," Prton said. "It's this ia that savrism is solidary. ... When we say Black Liv Matter, we need to also emphasize that Black learship matters and that we have to tst that learship."</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Still, many the crowd hoped that CSW and other siar anizatns would learn om this year's mistak. Brandon Anthony, an event producer, lled CSW the "guea pig" for the transformatns Black LGBTQ activists want to see more broadly.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">"Our target is not jt CSW and LA Pri," he said. "We're gog to challenge all nonprofs and rporatns. ... Change your astcture and re-exame how Black liv are beg treated."</p><p class=""><strong>CORRECTION</strong> (June 23, 2020, 2:31 p.m. ET): An earlier versn of this article clud a factually rrect quote about the makp of the board of Christopher Street Wt. One member of the board intifi as a Black trans woman. 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