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Happy June. Happy pride!
With this article and next month’s articles we are preparing the PRIDE. It’s not just time for a party, it’s much more than that. It’s about overcoming political and personal attacks. It is our individual financial success. It strengthens our community. You’ll find it all in this handy guide. 5 building blocks for a happy gay life Here.
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“P” stands for performance. This is the strength of our strength and the strength of our influence. These are the five pillars of power in the queer community.
Be grateful for the power of Stonewall
In the 1950s and 1960s, the LGBT scene was an underground counterculture. Most LGBT people did their best to hide who they were to avoid abuse from the community and the law.
But the summer of 1969 was hot. The temperature was hot. The black civil rights movement was hot. Vietnam was hot. LGBT civil rights were popular.
During a police raid on the Stonewall Bar in Greenwich Village, New York City, LGBT people had had enough. They were tired of being treated like second-class citizens. A normal police raid turned into a riot, leading to protests and confrontations over the next few nights.
Through a series of efforts, the LGBT community gained attention that led to advances in LGBT civil rights. The first Pride Parades took place in June 1970 and what started as a protest has evolved into a celebration of our diversity as a group and ourselves.
We owe it to our LGBT ancestors who embraced their queer power to embrace our queer power. Thank you very much!
Do you know the power of a “sissy” who wasn’t a coward
In 1977, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay non-incumbent politician elected to office in the United States and the first homosexual elected to office in the state of California.
Milk’s most famous speech is something that many LGBT people live by today.
“We’re coming out to tell the truth about gays because I’m tired of the conspiracy of silence so I’m going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it. You have to come out. Come out to your parents, your relatives.”
Milk lost his life to an assassin in 1978. It is thanks to the courage of people like Milk that we have the rights we have today. Thanks to people like Milk, we must use our queer power for good and continue to fight for our rights today.
Feel how the power of resistance made us stronger
The queer community has made great strides since the Stonewall riots of 1969, particularly in the last decade. However, the queer struggle has shifted to the state level.
The Colorado Senate, for example, narrowly avoided voting for Senate Bill 283 earlier this year. Supporters sold the bill as a “right to disagree,” but it had the potential to undermine Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws. Colorado Senate Bill 283 would have allowed private businesses to refuse to work with other people or organizations with whom the business owner “disagrees.” Many Coloradans were concerned about the bill’s vague language and how harmful it could be to minorities and people of other faiths.
The risk does not only apply to private companies. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey currently has Alabama House Bill 24 on her desk. If she signs this bill, also known as the Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act, it will legalize state adoption agencies to ban LGBT people from adopting children based on religious beliefs.
Colorado Senate Bill 283 and Alabama House Bill 24 are just two examples of the obstacles queer people still have to overcome at the state level. Indiana’s Senate Bill 101, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, caused concern when then-Indian Governor and current Vice President of the United States Mike Pence signed the bill into law in 2015. Hawaii, Mississippi, Tennessee and other states have all caused similar concern.
We don’t stop going to the gym when we reach our fitness goals. One win does not make a champion. Marriage equality became law in all 50 states in June 2015, but that doesn’t mean our fight for equality is over. It’s time to rev up our pumps and become even stronger so we can rise to any challenge.
Weigh the power of our wallets
According to Witeck Communications, the spending power of the queer community was nearly $1 trillion in 2016. Because of this purchasing power, we have influence over some of today’s largest U.S. companies such as Target, Walt Disney Co. and Apple. The help of these companies has prevented some government initiatives aimed at depriving LGBT people of their rights or making our lives more difficult.
So let’s use our pink dollars not only to feel good about ourselves, but also to support the corporations, local LGBT businesses and local advocacy groups that raise us and continue the fight for equality.
Strive for the strength to be at the top
We are not victims. We are not weak. We are persistent and energetic.
These are all characteristics of leaders. We’re out, right? Let’s go further and improve. Be a queer leader. When we become leaders, we have the greatest power to create the changes we want to see.
The better we do in our industries and the more we become leaders in those industries, the more we will be recognized for our contributions to society and less for our sexual orientation and gender identity.
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