Another Victory for the T (specifically TW) & Others Taking Over the LGBT: Black TIM Activist Named Prez of LA Pride; Says "LGBTQIA-Plus Diversity" Means Adding & Focusing onBLM

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LA Times article, September 2 2020:

In a first, LA Pride producer names Black transgender woman as president

For the first time in its 50-year history, Christopher Street West, the nonprofit organization that produces LA Pride, has named a Black transgender woman as president of its board.

Sharon-Franklin Brown will take the helm as the organization, which produces one of the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ celebrations, prepares to move annual events from its longtime West Hollywood home and places a renewed emphasis on diversity and social justice.

“It’s never been a more important moment for the LGBTQ-plus community and its allies to continue fighting for all of us,” Brown said in a statement. “As a robust community across Los Angeles, we value inclusiveness and diversity.”

Brown, a previous board member whose new role began Wednesday, said she is “so humbled to have been appointed ... as the first Black trans woman to lead CSW/Los Angeles Pride and our community efforts forward, beyond the pandemic and election, and into the future.”

In July, Christopher Street West announced that it was leaving West Hollywood after more than four decades in the iconic LGBTQ-friendly city. The nonprofit, in a letter to the West Hollywood City Council, said it would move the parade and festival in 2021. A new location has not been announced.

“The board of directors decided to take this approach for several reasons,” the letter said. “These include construction in West Hollywood Park, the changing demographics of Greater Los Angeles, our commitment to being responsive to the LGBTQIA-plus community’s needs, and our allyship and collaboration with other movements for social change.”

The event, which has taken place in West Hollywood every summer since 1979, draws hundreds of thousands of people each year and is a major economic driver for local bars, nightclubs, restaurants and other businesses that have been hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

As president, Brown will work with a newly formed Christopher Street West executive committee that will meet weekly “to execute the organization’s diversity initiatives and planned community engagement,” the organization said in a statement.

An activist for transgender rights and a former U.S. Navy sailor, Brown also is the current director of human resources at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

Brown “is an exceptional leader, and I could not be more proud to pass the baton to her,” outgoing Christopher Street West board president Estevan Montemayor said in a statement. “I have no doubt she will lead with inclusiveness and passion for our entire LGBTQ+ community.”

In recent years, Christopher Street West — named after the New York City street on which the Stonewall Inn stands — has been criticized as too white, too corporate and dismissive of transgender people.

In 2017, the annual LA Pride parade morphed into the #ResistMarch to protest the election of President Trump. This year, the parade — which started in 1970 and was celebrating its 50th anniversary — was canceled because of COVID-19.

After the May death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, Christopher Street West announced what initially was called a solidarity march with Black Lives Matter, to be held on the same day that the LA Pride parade would have taken place.

But the Black Lives Matter Los Angeles group never endorsed the event, and numerous leaders within the Black LGBTQ community said Christopher Street West did not communicate with them before announcing its plans. Critics said organizers had appropriated the Black Lives Matter cause in order to hold a “mini Pride” and denounced Christopher Street West for trying to organize the march collaboratively with the Los Angeles Police Department.

On June 14, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Hollywood and West Hollywood for the All Black Lives Matter march, which was organized by a newly formed group named Black LGBTQ+ Activists for Change (or BLAC), whose board is composed entirely of Black LGBTQ people.

In interviews with The Times, many Black people marching that day said that they had experienced racism within the LGBTQ community and that they had felt excluded both from LA Pride and from West Hollywood, which is 76% white.

Walking down Sunset Boulevard that day with her girlfriend, Ammie Robinson, 37, of Huntington Park, said that as a Black and queer person and as a woman, she had a “triple whammy” when it came to fighting for her rights. Her girlfriend, Kimiko McCarthy, 31, carried a cardboard sign that read, “Hey WeHo Black Queers Exist!!! #MakeSpace.”

A permanent street mural reading “All Black Lives Matter” was painted by crews on Hollywood Boulevard last week, replacing temporary art painted before the June march.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-02/la-pride-black-transgender-president-christopher-street-west

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[–]MarkTwainiac[S] 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I tried to find information about Sharon Franklin-Brown's background, career, qualifications, political affiliations, etc. Was interested in things like his education and professional accomplishments. Didn't find much (yet), but did see that he has a wordpress site, which contains this under the heading "Biography":

Honest, unrelenting, and unapologetic, Sharon Franklin Brown has endured a lifetime of prejudice, beginning with verbal attacks as an effeminate black youth in rural Louisiana, and following her throughout college, the US military, and into the corporate and political world. Through her art, poetry, and unwavering faith in herself, Sharon Franklin has managed to roll with the punches and make a life for herself in The City of Angels, Los Angeles. Despite her many successes and claims to be living life on her own terms, at 47, Sharon finds herself in a decade long relationship with a man who is unable to commit to her and for over 20 years has been engaged in a Cold War type conflict with a majority of her closest relatives upon revealing her true identity as a transgender woman.

Through observational and self-shot diary style footage an intimate, humorous, and eye-opening portrait of Sharon Franklin Brown’s life is revealed forcing us to confront our prejudices, challenge heteronormativity, face inimitable insight into the reality of transgenderism, and become cognizant of our collective desires to love and be loved in return.

https://sharonfranklin.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/biography-2/

This strikes me as so strange. I cannot imagine any woman in any line of work, particularly not a professional with political aspirations, portraying her life in this way. I mean, what middle-aged woman would say,

"Honest, unrelenting, and unapologetic, Mary Jones has endured a lifetime of prejudice, beginning with sexual harassment, constant catcalling, groping, objectification and verbal abuse as a normally-developing pubescent girl in X place, and following her through (unnamed) college and the world of work, where she was prevented from being considered for various posts due to her sex, suffered pregnancy and maternity discrimination, and on a daily basis was talked over by her male colleagues, who stole her ideas and work and claimed them as her own whilst they constantly hit on her, perved on her and asked her to do all the office admin work as well as make the coffee and keep the mini-fridge clean... (But) despite her many successes and claims to be living life on her own terms, at 47, May finds herself in a decade long relationship with a man who is unable to commit to her and for over 20 years has been engaged in a Cold War type conflict with a majority of her closest relatives upon revealing her true identity as a full human being deserving of equal rights..."

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I get the sense that the elder gays are fed up with the trans narrative taking over. For instance, there was a spat among West Hollywood residents and officials when the trans colors were painted at an intersection without permission.

I think that's why Trans, Inc., is also going after white gay men - to preemptively shut them up, because the trans activist lobby knows that elder gays are relatively powerful, know their gay history because they lived it and know that trans had little to no part in it. Also that elder gays are same-sex attracted and have no use for the idea that a gay person is attracted to gender identity not biological sex.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Black Trans Women.

Excluded from the black community for being gay.

Excluded from the gay community for being too effeminate.

Attacked and objectified by the closeted men who use them for sex.

Trying to use this group as the perfect oppressed minority victims is only going to back fire on the woke because you simply can't improve their lives without looking at the cultural issues within other favored oppressed minority groups which have nothing to do with their grand post structural narrative.

[–]our_team_is_winning 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

LA Pride for many years seems to have had nothing to do with the lives of normal people who happen to be gay. The kink and trans exhibitionists have taken over.