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Mass Walk Out At Mclean Funeral

Started by Shana A, August 04, 2011, 09:30:13 AM

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Shana A

August 04, 2011, 09:30:13 AM
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Mass Walk Out At Mclean Funeral
Posted by Monica Roberts at 11:15 AM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/08/mass-walk-out-at-mclean-funeral.html

One of the things we worry about once we leave this world as trans people is being disrespected at our funeral services or having our lives and the way we have lived them totally ignored by our grieving relatives.

When you're an African-American transperson, that concern is magnified because we are still trying to educate our people on our lives, fight through the disinformation on trans issues and reconcile them with our spirituality at the same time.  .

At Lashai Mclean's July 27 funeral at the Purity Baptist Church, those issues all came to a head when the sermon of Agape Missionary Baptist Church pastor Rev. A.W. Montgomery Sr. offended many of the people in attendance and triggered a mass walkout of 100 people. 
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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