i read the article
group of men approached, called her slurs and assaulted her
she drew a pistol with the safety on and finger off the trigger to scare them off
she is facing aggravated assault charges, the men got charged with nothing
self defense is illegal for minorities
Democrats lost the election and immediately told their influencers to manufacture consent for Latinos to be harassed by ICE. Now look, democrats doing everything they can to crush protests against ICE. You don’t have any allies in the political establishment.
Trump and the rich are destroying our world — not transgender people! Fight for socialism and LGBTQ+ liberation! 🌈
Thanks to the sacrifice and courage of generations of brave fighters for LGBTQ equality, we have seen a transformation of legal rights and social norms in our lifetime. But now, Trump and so many other right wing politicians are making a historic effort to tear up what our people have accomplished. It is up to us to carry on the legacy of struggle in this dangerous moment.
This Pride month is an opportunity to take to the streets and show that we will not go back – and that we will fight for a whole new system based on equality instead of division!
It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.
When people say "I'd do anything for my child," everyone praises them, but when a parent risks crossing a border to save their child from war, poverty, or danger, suddenly they're treated like criminals.
Just learning about this and I think it’s being suppressed on my timeline but we are all being way too chill about living among these actual concentration camps. So much of how people just carried on with their daily lives in Nazi germany has been demystified for me.