Zohran Mamdani, LGBTQ+ ally, wins New York City mayoral election and makes history

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-wins-nyc-mayor

Trump erased trans & queer history from Stonewall. Lawmakers are fighting to get it back

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/stonewall-transgender-erasure-democrats-outraged

The video starts with a trans person, Erin, talking about Zohran Mamdani's new political ad for Mayor of New York.

It throws to the ad, which shows Mamdani sitting at a desk in a park, wearing a neat suit. While he's talking a number of old pictures of New York from the 70s and 80s show, along with photos of Sylvia Rivera.

It cuts back to Erin talking about the ad again.

#trans #queer #lgbtiqa #Protest #pride #SylviaRivera #MarshaPJohnson #MissMajor

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Anyway. Happy Birthday to this caregiver, woman warrior, activist, survivor. Thank you for sharing your words, and thanks to those who have archived these precious records. https://youtu.be/hI2bxUSRF7I

#SylviaRivera #TransRights #Capitalism #RainbowCapitalism #MovementCapture

Today in Labor History July 2, 1951: Transgender revolutionary activist Sylvia Rivera was born. Ran away from home at age 11 to avoid abuse and did sex work to survive. As she got older, she became active in the antiwar movement and black liberation struggle, and then with the Gay Liberation Front. Together, with her friend Marsha P Johnson, and others, she co-founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries in 1970. This radical group helped raise funds to rent an apartment to house and support homeless queer youth. Much of that funding came from their sex work. She was very critical of the mainstream, middle-class, cis leadership of the gay rights movement, particularly when the 1986 Gay Rights Bill was passed without mentioning trans people. At the Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally in New York City, in 1973, Rivera jumped onstage during feminist Jean O'Leary's speech, which disparaged drag queens, and shouted: "Y'all Better Quiet Down! You go to bars because of what drag queens did for you, and these bitches tell us to quit being ourselves!" Today she is known as one of the leaders who made sure there was a T in LGBTQ.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sylviarivera #transgender #lgbtq #revolutionary #stonewall #pride #transphobia #sexwork #gayliberationfront