By Deron Dalton
Black Lives Matter is about far more than just police violence.
The network—a growing international organization with 26 local chapters in three countries—faces many misconceptions, co-optation, racist trolls, counter-narrative arguments—and, sometimes, its own communities. And yet, it upholds a mission to be explicitly intersectional, leading to a movement that mobilizes for all black lives and advocates for an array of racial injustice issues that affect those in the community.
Many black queer and transgender organizers lead the movement while centering on issues that they, as the most marginalized black people, face: economic inequality, intraracial violence, state violence, transphobia, misogyny, and homophobia.
This National Coming Out Day, we are highlighting four queer and transgender voices of the Black Lives Matter network, their stories of coming out, and how queer and trans issues correlate with the organizing and activism work they do.
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