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CommentaryAlready forgot everything from 2020? Here’s a review of the dumpster fire of a year.
In case you needed a reminder, or a reference. Because we’re sure you want to remember all of this.
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News (USA)Trans & queer New Yorkers faced brutal use of force by police near Stonewall. The mayor “doesn’t know anything.”
A regularly held, trans-led rally ended with police sieging the crowd near the LGBTQ rights landmark. NYC’s “second-in-command” official was shoved – but Bill de Blasio shrugs it off.
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LGBTQ HistoryWas transgender woman Nizah Morris killed in a police “courtesy ride”?
In 2002 police picked her up and she soon had what would prove to be a fatal head injury. Then the alleged cover-up started.
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News (USA)Unhinged man shouts racist & anti-gay slurs at restaurant as police refuse to intervene
His long ranting and shouting was caught on video, but he apparently wasn’t “disturbing the peace.”
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News (USA)Muggers thought a gay couple would be an easy target. They picked the wrong men to try to rob.
“The guy pulled a knife trying to rob me of my bag. So I put him on the ground.”
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News (USA)On Stonewall anniversary, the NYPD launched a brutal unprovoked attack on LGBTQ people
As Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted about honoring Stonewall, the NYPD was unleashing pepper spray on LGBTQ people dancing in celebration.
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NewsL.A. Pride no longer organizing Black Lives Matter solidarity march
A white Pride parade organizer was coordinating with police without consulting Black Lives Matter activists.
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Life“Hamilton” actor Javier Muñoz was gay bashed by undercover police officers
“We’ve come so far in the LGBTQ community,” Muñoz said. “How dare anyone try and push us back. No. And so I will stand up, and I will be that guy who’s going to get scrappy.”
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News (USA)Police union loses fight to keep identity of cop who killed Black trans man Tony McDade a secret
The union claimed the officer was “the victim.”
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News (USA)Indy Pride will cut ties with local police force that groped & brutalized unarmed women
“It is important now more than ever to remember the first Pride marches were protests against police brutality led by brown and black people.”
