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We call for divestment from gentrification, displacement, and white cis supremacy!
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Knowing those truths, and in the name of trans liberation, our coalition states the following:ġ. We, as a coalition led by trans women and femmes of color, know that there can be no Pride in a celebration of white, cisgender, gay male joy that simultaneously excludes the lives, legacies, and power of Black and Brown trans women. We are the Trans Liberation Collective leading a coalition of sibling organizations and accomplices to shut down the Chicago Pride Parade, because our voices have been repeatedly erased, and Pride organizers have refused to listen to past demands made by the most vulnerable of queer individuals. We rise in explicit solidarity with their demands as we issue our own. Most recently a collective called #BlackOutPride disrupted the Parade to make a statement that the gay establishment of Chicago has since shamefully ignored. In 1992, 2008, and 2015, Chicago’s Pride Parade was disrupted by queer and trans activists protesting police brutality, corporate greed, racism, and gentrification. By 1973, wealthy, white, cisgender gays and lesbians had taken over the march, banning trans women and those with radical politics. Johnson created the Christopher Street Liberation March in New York City, in commemoration of the police riot at Stonewall Inn the year before, and in direct protest of the New York Women’s House of Detention and the incarceration of queer and trans people. We reject the image of Pride offered to us: Empty platitudes from politicians who cover up the murders of Black youth, productions put on by corporations that abuse trans and queer workers, and the constant presence of murderous police officers armed to the teeth with, tasers, pepper spray, automatic weapons, and the audacity to say that they are here for our protection, as they rush to arrest us for celebrating our own legacy. The Compton’s Cafeteria Riots and the Stonewall Riots are how we mark the legacy of Pride: Strong, proud, and unapologetic trans resistance in the face of a world that continues to prefer our bodies as corpses in the ground, rather than revolutionaries in the streets. The trans community of Chicago has risen up to explicitly denounce the Chicago Pride Parade and Festival, and to announce our intention to once again form our own spaces, to better serve and represent our own pride and liberation. This year, like so many years before, our communities have reached a breaking point. We disavow the numerous atrocities done to the legacies of our ancestors and foremothers in the movement for trans and queer liberation, and the ever-increasing corporatization, whitewashing, gentrification, racism, and cisnormativity that have infused Pride for decades. Trans and queer communities, leading groups of accomplices, gather in a unified stance against the annual Chicago Pride Parade and Festival.
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Here is a public statement from the organizers: A trans-led coalition of Chicago-based organizations–headed by the Trans Liberation Collective and including the BTGNC Collective, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Jewish Voice for Peace, Assata’s Daughters and Pilsen Alliance–are shutting down the Chicago Pride Parade.