The uprising against police violence that took place at New York City’s Stonewall Inn in June of 1969 is often considered to be the historic breakthrough moment for the LGBTQ movement in the United States.
The Stonewall uprising was also a poor people’s movement.
We have lost track of this in our collective, national memory.
Sylvia Rivera was poor. Marsha P. Johnson was poor. They lived in poverty, were subject to systemic racism, experienced the violence of our militarized society at the hands of police, and lived in poor neighborhoods historically subject to a range of ecological devastations.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is indebted to the leadership of countless LGBTQ leaders for justice—particularly those queer and trans leaders who are directly impacted by poverty, systemic racism, the war economy, and ecological devastation.
Read more: https://kairoscenter.org/queer-and-trans-leaders-poor-peoples-campaign/
