March For Black Trans Lives
Sun, Jun 28
|Robert W. Traip Academy
To honor the lives of Black Trans Lives that have been lost. We remember Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, Riha Milton, Tete Gullie, Nina Pop, Tony McDade and others whose names we may not know. We as a community must stand up for justice and to honor these individuals who were taken.
when &+ where
Jun 28, 2020, 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Robert W. Traip Academy, 12 Williams Ave, Kittery, ME 03904, USA
what
Please join us Sunday, 6/28 at 3:30 to honor the lives of Black Trans Lives that have been lost. We remember Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, Riha Milton, Tete Gullie, Nina Pop, Tony McDade and others whose names we may not know. We as a community must stand up for justice and to honor these individuals who were taken too soon.
June 28th, 2020 is the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which is widely regarded as the beginning of the Gay Liberation Movement in the US. All rights LGTBQ people have now are because of the actions taken by Marsha P Johnson, a Black trans woman, and Stormé DeLarverie, a Black butch lesbian. On this day, we will be honoring all the Black queer people, and especially Black trans women, who have given us our contemporary rights today.
In line with the national demands from BLM, there will be a focus…