'As white queers, we can and must do better by Black people. That means amplifying Black voices and joining them to speak truth to power for BlackLivesMatter. There is no Pride in a police state,' chrisroneyx writes.
was shot dead by Louisville police last week, his body left on the street for 12 hours.
Because if we don't stand with Black people in the face of racial injustice, we have nothing to be proud of. If we would rather align ourselves with white respectability than lean into intersectional support of Black folks, we need a reality check more than we do a parade. White queers preach inclusivity, but it’s time to make it our practice. Simply put, we do not deserve the advocacy of women whose lives we would not defend today: likeGay liberation was born out of defiance.
She did not die in vain. We owe her so much today. But white queer people take her death in vain every time we allow ourselves to be so cushioned by privilege we think riots are beneath us. I can assure you they are not. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, "Riots are the language of the unheard." It would do us white queers well to remember that some 40 years ago, we knew rage too.were unheard, dying en masse while the world turned a blind eye. I wasn't alive then, but I know what those demons look like because I live with them today.
Queer people know loss, and we know how the loss of elders hurts communities. We can put a face to "silence equals death" in the 100,000-plus lives lost to AIDS in the US by January 25, 1991 —
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