#BlackOutPride Action Disrupts Chicago Pride Parade
Radical Faggot, June 28, 2015
Members of the Black queer community of Chicago are disrupting the Chicago Pride Parade. Here is their public statement:
On this day in 1969, Sylvia Rivera, a Boricua trans woman, threw the bottle that sparked the infamous Stonewall Riot. A year later, she and Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman, co-organized the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York City to commemorate the queer upheaval against police violence, which toured the lower east side, ending strategically in front of the New York Women’s House of Detention.
