LOOK: These Photos and Videos Will Make You Proud #NYCPride Is Part of #TheResistance
Never Before in America Have Our Very Lives and Civil Rights Been Been So Uniquely Threatened
Marchers at Sunday’s 48th annual NYC Pride have added an additional element to this year’s celebration: Resistance.
The efforts to resist President Donald Trump, his supporters in Congress, his enablers in the media, and his policies and behaviors are a natural fit for a community who has had to fight for every right, every advance, and every ounce of recognition. And we’re far from done. We are fighters by necessity: we have faced oppression and opposition at every turn.
Donald Trump’s agenda represents a clear and present danger not only to our civil rights, but to our very lives. That’s not hyperbole. And while it is more tangible and evident for the LGBT community, that clear and present danger exists for literally everyone in America.
The GOP health care plan which Trump supports, for example, will literally lead to the deaths of thousands. The LGBTÂ community, where many of those living with HIV/AIDS will find themselves without the safety nets put in place by Obamacare and even previous health care programs, especially Medicaid, is exceptionally at risk. People with pre-existing conditions, from HIV/AIDS to diabetes to cancer, to mental health challenges will find their health care costs skyrocketing should the current legislation become law.Â
After decades of real discrimination and oppression, many in the LGBT community are finally finding occupations and communities where we are treated equally, but many within our community, transgender women of color in particular, are not. And Trump’s policies and actions harm the LGBT community, at times the most. From eliminating life-saving health care, to revoking guidance protecting the civil rights of transgender students across the country, to scaling back or dropping civil rights actions by the Dept. of Justice and Dept. of Education, to appointing the most virulently anti-LGBT cabinet in modern history, to embracing the religious right and enabling their anti-LGBT hate to be elevated as normal.
From changing the face of the Supreme Court – possibly overturning Obergefell and Roe v. Wade, to turning away refugees and immigrants from war-torn countries and deporting the undocumented to countries where their deaths are all but guaranteed, LGBT people, especially LGBT people who are also ethnic minorities, are at great risk.
That’s just for starters.
So, let’s be thankful for today’s Pride, and let’s be thankful for all those who are part of the Resistance. Because never before in America have our very lives and civil rights been been so uniquely threatened.
Scream if you want a just society for all LGBTQ people regardless of race or incomeâ€¼ï¸ #NYCPride2017 pic.twitter.com/Sd0dnNyo0X
— ACLU National (@ACLU) June 25, 2017
Scouts walking with the name of trans lives that have fallen #NYCPride pic.twitter.com/kYHtQuaeOt
— Victoria Rose @🌈NYC (@riningear) June 25, 2017
#NYCPride #RiseandResist #BLM #ACTUPNY @riseandresistny got it together this year #Pride #loveislove #resist #MedicaidCutsKill (📷BCCraig) pic.twitter.com/n8HSq3ZsY6
— Lisa Guido (@lisaguido) June 25, 2017
Happy #nycpride ðŸ³ï¸â€ðŸŒˆâœŠðŸ½#resist #nycpridemarch #aclu #WeStandTogether pic.twitter.com/wTsddIGjpW
— LGBT Feed LA (@lgbtfeedla) June 25, 2017
The #Resistance is lawyered up! @ACLU @NYCLU @LambdaLegal #NYCPride pic.twitter.com/9QIcffOopd
— Yuvraj Joshi (@yuvrajjoshi) June 25, 2017
Sheer brilliance at NYC Pride! Trumpcare kills! pic.twitter.com/L0nfermEfP
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) June 25, 2017
Today’s message at #NYCPride. #Resist pic.twitter.com/wDdwZc7LDz
— Sierra (@SierraWinrow) June 25, 2017
The NYC Pride march has started, and the Resistance is at the very front. Today, we’re #proudlyresisting. Join us. https://t.co/I0zqE0dqcm pic.twitter.com/BscYYVjuMf
— Rise and Resist (@riseandresistny) June 25, 2017
Some came all the way from PHILLY for #NYCPride to march in the Resistance contingent with Refuse Fascism. THANK YOU for #ProudlyResisting pic.twitter.com/H27fa92Z6N
— #NoFascistUSA (@RefuseFascism) June 25, 2017
#theresistance is here #PRIDE @HobokenResist @ResistHere @sacca pic.twitter.com/K30xG6cyGy
— *â˜•ï¸ (@ARGillette) June 25, 2017
#NYCPride #RiseandResist #Trumpcare #AHCA #ACTUPNY got it together this year #Pride #loveislove #resist #MedicaidCutsKill (📷BCCraig) pic.twitter.com/SCvqGReNYi
— Lisa Guido (@lisaguido) June 25, 2017
NO gay bashing, NO pussy grabbing, NO fascist USA! #NYCPride is AMAZING. #ProudlyResisting pic.twitter.com/Bie5UmmQiO
— #NoFascistUSA (@RefuseFascism) June 25, 2017
People went FUCKING WILD when the ACLU showed up! AS THEY SHOULD!!! #RESIST #NYCPride pic.twitter.com/6gKC35z573
— Shannon Fox ðŸ³ï¸â€ðŸŒˆ (@shannonfox) June 25, 2017
The resistance part of #NYCPride is getting ready to march. #Pride2017 pic.twitter.com/dMx58P9aSJ
— Jason Rosenberg (@mynameisjro) June 25, 2017
Marching @CBST #NYCPride #rise #Resist pic.twitter.com/2J4ZITHT4b
— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) June 25, 2017
Rise and Resist leads NYC Pride 2017. pic.twitter.com/xYmFWawUh0
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) June 25, 2017
Proud to be marching and dancing with #aclu #nyclu #NYCPride #resist #resist #resist pic.twitter.com/iOJir0IBdV
— Louis Fishman (@Istanbultelaviv) June 25, 2017
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