Beyond Bullying: Queer/Trans Youth Demand Social Justice in Maine!

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Beyond Bullying: Queer/Trans Youth Demand Social Justice in Maine!
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: R Conrad
November 9, 2010 8:30 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/beyond_bullying_queertrans_youth_demand_social_jus.php


On November 6th about 90 youth and adult allies rallied together in Lewiston/Auburn Maine to show other queer and trans youth that they are not alone in their struggle to survive their teenage years. This rally, titled "You Are Not Alone!," was unlike similar rallying cries around the nation that simply suggest we wear purple to address the issue of anti-queer/trans violence and prejudice or the idiocy propagated by the "It Gets Better" project that primarily tells youth to just wait it out and move to the big city as soon as they can instead of demanding social justice here and now.