{"id":8421,"date":"2018-07-07T18:12:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/175647557958"},"modified":"2018-07-07T18:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T18:12:38","slug":"bisofcolourlgbt-people-of-colour-are-the-canary-in-the-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2018\/07\/bisofcolourlgbt-people-of-colour-are-the-canary-in-the-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"bisofcolour:\nLGBT+ People of Colour are the Canary in the coal…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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bisofcolour<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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LGBT+ People of Colour are the Canary in the coal mine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s long known that when it comes to the hierarchy of the LGBT+ acronym, queer POCs are the bottom of the barrel. \u00a0This goes double for asexual, trans and\/or bisexual women and femmes of colour. \u00a0In 2016, London LGBT pride let the racist hate group UKIP march as part of the parade, because UKIP has a gay group as part of a movement. https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/patrickstrudwick\/ukip-have-been-allowed-to-march-at-pride-and-some-lgbt-peopl?utm_term=.vfvnrbdeJ7#.umGRmMaEzg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0 This year London LGBT pride let a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) group lead the parade after they pushed themselves to the very front.\u00a0https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2018\/07\/07\/anti-trans-group-allowed-to-lead-pride-in-london-march-after-hijack\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, we are rightfully disgusted that this was allowed to happen. \u00a0The TERF group shouted transphobic slogans during the parade, which is supposed to be welcoming to Transgender people. \u00a0<\/p>\n

HOWEVER<\/p>\n

London LGBT Pride showed their hand years ago in 2016, but it was quickly forgotten and mostly ignored by the majority of pride attendees because UKIP hate is mostly aimed at POCs. \u00a0Jacq A was part of the Community board for Pride London that year, and resigned when they realised what was happening. \u00a0But no other member of the board stood up for LGBT People of Colour. \u00a0And now we see another vulnerable group treated in a terrible manner with Trans folk being targeted. \u00a0It seems the warning from the canary in the coal mine went unheeded until it affected (mostly) white people.<\/p>\n

We at Bi\u2019s of Colour chose back in 2016 to no longer work with or take part in London LGBT Pride. \u00a0We have known for some time that London Pride is far from its roots as a protest – it\u2019s simply a corporate party for affluent cisgender lesbians and gays. \u00a0The Armed Forces, the police and airlines that regularly deport LGBT People of Colour have more of a presence at Pride than bisexual, trans and asexual groups – the cost of participating is often a major factor in that, but the unwelcoming atmosphere doesn\u2019t help either.<\/p>\n

Bi\u2019s of Colour stand with our Trans and Nonbinary folk. \u00a0We are sorry that they have been treated this way. \u00a0London Pride is not a safe place for us, and it hasn\u2019t been for some time. \u00a0Pride is a PROTEST!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

bisofcolour:
\nLGBT+ People of Colour are the Canary in the coal mine.
\nIt\u2019s long known that when it comes to the hierarchy of the LGBT+ acronym, queer POCs are the bottom of the barrel. \u00a0This goes double for asexual, trans and\/or bisexual women and femme…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}