But with the added intersection of race and ethnicity, unified identity pride gets messy. Gender and sexuality oppression binds queer people together.
Black and brown trans women likely started the Stonewall riots, but the media credits white gay men. We’ve effectively erased the voices of those who fought the hardest for our rights. The history of queer liberation has been blatantly whitewashed. Why are white LGBTQ+ people more socially palatable than queer people of color? Only a handful of positive representations of queer people exist in popular media.
