(15:33:00) All Black Lives Matter - LGTBQ Segment

Speaker [00:00:19] Hi, everybody. Again I want to day. Thank you for everyone coming out. It means a lot. I know me as a black person. I've been going through a lot of [like] anxiety like not be able to sleep at night, just because every time I open up Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. Reddit. This, that, and the third... I'm always seeing someone who looks like me, being brutally murdered, including the shooter.

Speaker [00:00:41] And, June now is Pride Month. So, I want to say Happy Pride to all the people in the LTGBQ around. And our allies. This, that, and the third. I also want to take a minute to recognize the death of Tony McDade. A trans man who was killed and the coverage is constantly mis-gendering, him ignoring his trans identity. This, that, and the third and I want to say we must must recognize all people. And I've been thinking about it a lot. And I realize that, like, growing up to be black and gay was hard. It's hard being gay, period. There's a lot of people are homophobic. They believe that you're wrong. This that and the third, it's also being. It's hard being black as well, because as we all know we're here trying to say that our skin color is not a crime. We're not wrong for existing. Our existence is right. It's true. But it's also hard. Being black is weird period within the black community. As an artist, there's a lot of hush hush about the situation. A lot of homophobia, because for whatever reason, it is. And that's what to speak about.

Speaker [00:01:49] I had a hard time growing up. My family was not the most supportive at all. I had issues I had to, like, not be at home for an extended period of time. When I moved away, things got a lot better when I went to college and coming back and the pandemic. A lot of things just like, reignited themselves. And I wanted to bring attention to people in the black community. We have to, we have to, we have to advocate for all lives, all black lives matter, black queer, black trans lives. All of it. Because if you're only, only advocating for black cis and heterosexual lives. You want privilege, not equality. And it's important for all of us matter. Trans people are at the forefront of all these protests, doing the most that we can. Because that's all we can do. That's all we know how to do, is stick up for ourselves. And the people in the queer community, there is bad racism. And I honestly doesn't make sense to me because black queer trans women are the people at the forefront of all the protests for our rights. We got all of our rights from Marshall P Johnson.

Speaker [00:02:58] Sylvia. Sylvia Rodriguez. We need to speak out for everybody. You cannot just speak up for your life or cis gender straight lives, because that's not how it works. We need to respect all black lives. We all matter. That's all I had to say.