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Related: About this forumBlack Lives Matter to Help Lead San Francisco Pride Parade
In a move that illustrates the intersectionality of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and the work of activists who advocate for LGBTQI rights, the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration Committee has named BLM as one of its grand marshals for the 2016 pride parade.
The 46th annual San Francisco Pride Parade is scheduled for June 26, and this years theme is For Racial and Economic Justice.
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/black-lives-matter-help-lead-san-francisco-pride-parade
This is literally the best thing I have heard all day. Maybe all year. Pride is a big deal to me, and that these two very important movements will lead the SF parade might make me ditch NYC for SF pride this year.
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Black Lives Matter to Help Lead San Francisco Pride Parade (Original Post)
La Lioness Priyanka
Mar 2016
OP
This is fantastic news! It's rather difficult for the haters, when faced with this kind of unity.
arcane1
Mar 2016
#1
This is what it is going to take. If the decent, non bigoted, non racist Americans
Jackie Wilson Said
Mar 2016
#2
arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. This is fantastic news! It's rather difficult for the haters, when faced with this kind of unity.
And yes, you should totally attend SF pride this year
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)8. +1000!
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)2. This is what it is going to take. If the decent, non bigoted, non racist Americans
come together anywhere and everywhere, the bad guys cant win.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)3. Thank you! I needed a smile.
A big grin, actually. This makes me very happy.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. Xposted to California group
Number23
(24,544 posts)5. So freaking amazing. K&R
[Black Lives Matter] goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within Black communities, which merely call on Black people to love Black, live Black and buy Black, keeping straight cis Black men in the front of the movement while our sisters, queer and trans and disabled folk take up roles in the background or not at all.
I didn't think it was possible for me to have more respect for BLM.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)6. me either.
brer cat
(24,402 posts)7. Oh, wow!
That is wonderful.