2025 NYC Pride Guide - Flipbook - Page 17
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“BUT BABY, IF YOU WANT
TO GET DOWN TO THE
GRASSROOTS OF IT, I MEAN,
A LABEL IS SOMETHING I
WEAR, NOT SOMETHING I
LIKE TO HAVE DIRECTED
TOWARD ME.”
“When you see Protests out there, peaceful ones
mind you, it is such a beautiful array of people
and demographics. The awakening is so beautiful.
What also is gorgeous is that people of different
shades know that they don’t need to show up.
This [time] is for others, [allies and those with
privilege and advantage] to show up. Not only
for us in the trans community, but for us all.”
DJ LINA BRADFORD
(SHE/HER)
DJ, Host, Actress, Activist, board
member and global ambassador
for the Hetrick-Martin Institute
and chair member for GMHC
www.djlina.com
“We need to truly be a unified front, we can’t
come together as a community if we’re talking
behind each other’s backs, whispering about
drag queens, trans people, lesbians … I don’t want
to pigeon hole just one group, because I think
everybody does it, but also show up for the
people who really need you the most.“
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“I want every community, but especially our
[LGBTQ+] community to get out of our phones
more. I know I’m everything I am because of
my beautiful predecessors and my brothers
and sisters who walked the path before me. I
was always around older people in Manhattan
learning about education and culture. These are
things you can’t learn from Google. You can’t
Google these conversations with your brothers
and sisters who’ve made this possible for you to
be all this way, to have a Pride March, you know,
to be trans of any sort, non-binary, any of these
things.”
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