1,500 rally for Mark Carson in NYC - It was New York City’s largest LGBT rally in years, according to organizers. On Monday at least 1,500 people showed up to honor the life of Mark Carson and make a stand against the hate that led to his death. Carson was an openly gay 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed over the weekend in what authorities are investigating as an anti-gay hate crime.
The randomness of Carson’s death has shocked the city’s LGBT community. “Mark is not going to die in vain. We are not going to get beat up in vain,” one rally participant told Mother Jones. “Gay rights, we’re still fighting for them, and the fight is not over. We need to protect each other.”
- Uses gay as an insult: “Foo Fighters are gay”
- To a black audience member: “Do you really like rock music? Because you’re African-American. That would be like me being into Lil Wayne.”
- “I’m allowed to use the word ‘f**’ because I’m a gay icon”
- Said she hopes Dave Grohl get …
Apparently that Wayne Brady post contains a link to a video featuring transmisogynistic comments by Wayne Brady.
I didn’t see the link when I reblogged the post, and I apologize for potentially hurting anyone out there.
No respect for racists. No sympathy. No patience. No understanding. Nothing. They don’t get to deny entire groups of people their humanity and still expect to have their humanity respected.
Black lesbian relationships pose little threat to ‘self-defined’ Black men and women secure in their sexualities. But loving relationships among Black women do pose a tremendous threat to systems of intersecting oppressions. How dare these women love one another in a context that deems Black women as a collectivity so unlovable and devalued?
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You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM,…
Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can mobilize an entire society in violent hate against me.
Language is never neutral.
Words most definitely mean things.
