How Do I Feel About The Gay Community, And How Does the Gay Community Feel About

[Shana A]

Saturday, June 20, 2009
How Do I Feel About The Gay Community, And How Does the Gay Community Feel About Me?
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:45 AM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-do-i-feel-about-gay-community-and.html

We are rapidly approaching the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion that kicked off in New York June 28, 1969.

It was the impetus for the increased activism of the modern TBLG rights movement, but I'm ambivalent about it as an African descended transperson.

My attitude toward it reflects the Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. line in the HBO movie The Tuskegee Airmen. In this particular scene he was testifying in front of a Senate committee at the behest of a racist senator whether to shut down the Tuskegee Airmen.

I'll paraphrase it here.