LaLa Zannell: Pushing Back Against LGBTQ Violence with a Passion
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Victims of LGBTQ violence have a unique range of concerns based on their living situations, immigration status and personalities.
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Victims of LGBTQ violence have a unique range of concerns based on their living situations, immigration status and personalities.
In caring more about Pride than about overall human rights, we show the world that superficial markers of progress are enough.
Criminalizing consenting adults in same sex relationships is not only a betrayal of Indonesians who are LGBT, but also a betrayal of all Indonesians who thought they were living in a tolerant country.
A space built to advocate for the plurality of women’s rights is instead becoming increasingly hostile and unsafe for people whose identities and principles do not align with an extremist, Judeo-Christian, heteronormative framework.
While we may not be the main targets of the Trump administration yet, as part of an intersectional progressive movement LGBTQ women must keep fighting and finding offense with the president’s hateful and wrong policies.