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| West Hollywood, 2012 |
The Los Angeles Times has a short film “At the
Intersection of LGBTQ Pride and Black Lives Matter”, posted July 2020, with
Erika D. Smith, Lillian Faderman and Alexei Romanoff, 6 minutes,
I can rather let the film speak for itself.
However the tone of gay rights has changed since 2010
(end of “don’t ask don’t tell” and even 2015 (Obergefell and gay marriage) and
today, with the pandemic and then the unrest after a number of police actions
against some individuals of color.
This year, the pandemic precluded Pride celebrations
as we known them and largely (though not completely) closed bars and discos;
but large protests associated with Black Lives Matter grew. Various influencers in the gay community were
encouraged to vigorously support BLM on their social media pages, often unaware
of the apparent Marxist connections (as with Patrisse Cullors).
The film maintains that Stonewall started among people
of color, not white gay men, who are quite separate in many cultural beliefs.
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