“I think the story of the march toward justice and the journey toward justice in our country around the world is never linear. Last month, the Health and Human Services Department proposed a new rule suggesting that federal laws banning sex discrimination in health care don’t apply to patients’ “gender identity.” United States citizenship has also been denied to some children of LGBTQ couples, among other policies activists deem harmful to the LGBTQ community. In April, the president’s contentious transgender military policy, which bars transgender personnel from serving openly and denies them access to gender-affirming medical care, went into effect. Under the Trump Administration, federal rollbacks against LGBTQ rights have been set in motion. NBC OUT Stonewall police records shed new light on 1969 uprising “I think now it needs to be the people who claim to be our allies … or the people who claim to love us to stand up and let people know that it’s not OK to attack us, to beat us, to demonize us.” “The LGBT community as a whole in addressing the issue of trans people and the violence that we face is something that we’ve always been doing,” Kristen Lovell, a trans advocate and film producer, said. This year, at least 11 transgender people have been killed, further exemplifying that such violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color. In 2018, advocates tracked at least 26 violent deaths of transgender people - the majority of whom were black transgender women - according to the Human Rights Campaign. Each and every day, each and every decade.” “It’s about carrying on and the idea of creating more space at the table, more space in society. It’s about building on the backs of our forefathers and foremothers,” Danielle Moodie-Mills, host of the SiriusXM show “WokeAF,” said. “We don’t live in a society where you fight for your rights and all of a sudden, they’re one and done.
For many, remembrances of the Stonewall uprising serve as a reminder of what work remains to be done, of whose voices still need to be heard and of whose queer bodies still need to be protected. Yet just as Stonewall didn’t technically mark the beginning of the gay rights movement, its 50th anniversary doesn’t mark the end of it either.