2025 NYC Pride Guide - Flipbook - Page 23
urn, San Francisco’s Casstrict erupted in protest,
the streets and flipping
police cars. In the year
ollowed, Dianne Feinstein
red queer community
in her ultimately successayoral run, and committed
anging the relationship
een the queer commund the government of
rancisco (specifically the
e)
Blues Bar Raid
In 1982, the New York Police Department violently raided Blues, a Black &
Latino queer bar in midtown Manhattan,
as part of a larger move by the City’s
closeted mayor, Ed Koch, to gentrify
Times Square. Twelve patrons were
hospitalized and $40,000 worth of
merchandise and fixtures were
destroyed.
It became a flashpoint for the
queer community, with over
1,500 people gathering to
protest brutality. As a result,
Blues was the last known police
raid on a gay bar in New York
City.
PRESENT, MORE THAN 20% OF
’23 -’25 INGENTHEZ YOUTH
IDENTIFY AS LGBTQ+,
nd Texas
USA
uth Walkout
Trans Youth Protests
2022, cities and
nd the country
BTQIA+ books
t illegal for teachuss LGBTQIA+
assrooms. Two of
hit states were
Florida, both basnservative governimentation and
In March of 2022,
-led group Queer
mble organized
lkouts across the
protest of these
s.
As trans rights and lives have
come under increasing attack
over the last year, trans youth
(and their guardians and families)
have led the way in resisting bans
on gender-affirming care in states
from California, to New York, to
Texas, to Tennessee. If this timeline of LGBTQIA+ protests shows
anything, it is that trans and gender non-conforming young people are, and always have been, at
the forefront of queer resistance.
MAKING THEM THE QUEEREST
AMERICAN GENERATION YET. AS WE
SEE TODAY, OUR HOPES FOR A
VIBRANT QUEER FUTURE GROUNDED
IN ADVOCACY AND EQUALITY WILL
REQUIRE AS MUCH RESISTANCE AND
CELEBRATION AS IN THE QUEER PAST.
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