"The Human Rights Campaign turned Washington, D.C., into a proving ground this past weekend for the resilience and vision of the LGBTQ+ movement. Across two days, from a grassroots town hall to the chandeliers of the Washington Hilton, the nation's largest LGBTQ+ rights organization reminded thousands of supporters that the "American dream" remains both contested and worth fighting for."
""It can be hard to dream when you're living in a nightmare," she said, likening today's laws targeting queer and trans people to the segregationist policies of the Jim Crow South. Roem reframed the dream around universal school meals and health care; Randall spoke of her Chicano family's multigenerational fight for dignity; Wolf, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub massacre, insisted that every child deserves to grow up believing they are worthy of imagining a future."
Human Rights Campaign held a two-day set of events in Washington, D.C., combining a grassroots town hall and a large national dinner that drew thousands. The American Dreams tour stop included a panel moderated by April Ryan with Kelley Robinson, Rep. Emily Randall, Sen. Danica Roem, and Brandon Wolf, where speakers addressed bans on books and bathrooms and legislative assaults on transgender people. Robinson compared current targeting of queer and trans communities to segregation-era policies and emphasized generational struggle, while Roem, Randall, and Wolf highlighted universal supports, multigenerational dignity fights, and the right of children to envision a future. The weekend underscored urgency and collective mobilization.
Read at Advocate.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]