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Por MAKENA HUEY | Noticias del centro y la zona alta<\/p>\n

From the initial riot that inspired June\u2019s Pride month parades to the protests occurring around the world in response to the murder of George Floyd, both had the same goal: ending the police brutality of a marginalized community. Current Black activists are echoing the demands of the original Black activists who advanced the LGBTQ+ rights movements just over 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis state-sanctioned violence and brutality against Black and brown communities has a history that dates back to the country\u2019s first colonizers and shares the same roots as the violence and brutality that the LGBTQ+ community fought back against at Stonewall in 1969,\u201d the San Diego Black LGBTQ Coalition said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Pride began not as a colorful parade but as a violent riot against police brutality. In response to years of advocacy from queer and trans People of Color, San Diego Pride will no longer have law enforcement contingents in the parade.<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

One of the primary catalysts of the LGBTQ rights movement and modern pride parades was the Stonwall Riots, which began June 28, 1969 after New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn \u2014 a gay club in Greenwich Village \u2014\u00a0 and arrested 13 people. Infuriated by the police harassment and other forms of discrimation, customers and community members remained outside the bar and began throwing objects at the police.<\/p>\n

Although it may never be known who threw the exact first punch or brick, Black trans activist Marsha P. Johnson and Black lesbian Storm\u00e9 DeLarverie have been credited with starting the scuffle. This raid sparked six consecutive days of violent protests against oppression and police brutality.<\/p>\n

On June 28, 1970, the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, thousands of people participated in the country\u2019s first gay pride parade. Located in Manhattan, this event was known as Christopher Street Liberation Day, according to History.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the pride parades were really all about was commemorating gay people not being victims [and] standing up. It\u2019s not that it was glorifying violence but it was saying, \u2018This is our pain, we\u2019re crying out,\u2019\u201d lesbian historian Dr. Lillian Faderman said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

In California, sodomy was illegal until 1976. People who did not conform to what was considered appropriate sexual behavior and gender presentation were often arrested and harassed, according to Faderman\u2019s \u201cLGBTQ in San Diego: A History of Persecution, Battles, and Triumphs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intimidation of the gay community by the police in the 1950s and through much of the \u201860s was really disgusting,\u201d Faderman said. \u201cGay people were presumptive criminals, constantly harassed by the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

LGBTQ activists adopted several tactics that the Black community utilized during the \u201850s and \u201860s, including sit-ins. Faderman said progress would not have been possible without the non-violent and violent protests of the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf peaceful protests had worked in those days, I\u2019m sure there would have been peaceful protests but … it really took young gay people to say, \u2018We are not having any of this anymore,\u2019\u201d Faderman said. \u201cIt took their anger to finally call attention to the way the gay community was abused.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

San Diego\u2019s first official pride parade occurred in 1975, one year after a local sergeant reportedly denied activists a permit and threatened arrests. This event was preceded by the city\u2019s first pro-LGBTQ+ protest in 1971 outside of the San Diego Police Headquarters, the May Company protest in 1974, and Gay Liberation Front\u2019s \u201cgay-in\u201d at Presidio park in 1974, according to \u201cLGBTQ in San Diego: A History of Persecution, Battles, and Triumphs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a general consensus that they were sick and tired of laying low and hiding,\u201d said Ken Selnick, archivist at Lambda Archives of San Diego, who describes the relationship between the LGBTQ community and the police at the time as \u201ccontentious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, the San Diego police began to lose credibility and several LGBTQ officers served as agents of change, even attending pride parades as a display of support, Selnick said.<\/p>\n

In 1992, San Diego Police Department Chief Bob Burgreen marched in the parade, and soon after the Sheriff\u2019s Department forbid harassment and discrimination against lesbians and gay men.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was certainly polar opposite from the oppressive nature of it back in the \u201860s and \u201870s,\u201d Selnick said.<\/p>\n

Still, LGBTQ+ people are discriminated against by police even if there are no longer laws dictating consensual sexual behavior and gender presentation. Stop data analyzed by University of California San Diego and Voice of San Diego showed San Diego Police Department officers are more likely to stop LGBTQ+ people and place them in handcuffs than their straight cisgender counterparts.<\/p>\n

\"No<\/p>\n

Black members of the LGBTQ+ community are particularly at risk, with Black LGBTQ+ people three times more likely to experience excessive force by police than non-Black LGBTQ+ people, as reported by National Coalition of Antiviolence Programs in 2017.<\/p>\n

LGBTQ+ individuals and activists have long debated whether police officers, especially those in uniform, belong at pride marches.<\/p>\n

On June 3, the organizers of the Los Angeles Pride Parade announced that the event \u2014 which was initially canceled due to the coronavirus \u2014 will now take place June 14 as a solidarity march and protest against racial injustice and police brutality, as reported by CBS.<\/p>\n

San Diego Pride recently expressed similar statements of solidarity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the nation rages and mourns in the wake of stolen black lives, I can\u2019t help but reflect on our shared experiences,\u201d Fernando Zweifach L\u00f3pez, executive director of San Diego Pride, wrote in a June 1 post. \u201cPride was a three-day riot against legal state-sanctioned police violence long before it was a celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n

A four-step plan released on the SD Pride website states there will no, there will no longer be a law enforcement contingent in the next San Diego Pride Parade. In step two, Lopez requested Pride be recognized as a free speech event so they will no longer be charged for police presence and other city fees. Other groups will be in charge of safety and road closures, and all savings will be directed to Black-led LGBTQ+ programming.<\/p>\n

The statement also requests the San Diego Police Department immediately adopt the #8cantwait reforms and phase in more reforms in the future centering the demands of Black LGBTQ+ people.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Makena Huey es estudiante de \u00faltimo a\u00f1o en la Universidad de Pepperdine en Malib\u00fa, California, y est\u00e1 estudiando ingl\u00e9s y tiene una especializaci\u00f3n secundaria en periodismo. El nativo de San Diego fue el editor en jefe de la revista Currents y actualmente es el editor gerente del peri\u00f3dico Graphic.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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