“We’re not talking about one person’s experience…we’re talking about what it looks like when a system is disproportionately impacting folks on multiple levels, and I think for the first time there are many people grappling with that.”
When the current protest movement against police violence began, Rupert-Gordon joined over 100 other LGBTQ+ organizations in signing a“We have to recognize that racism exists in the LGBTQ movement,” she says, “And I think that is a shock to a lot of people. Because many people think that because LGBTQ folks experience oppression that they are not likely to engage in racism or other forms of oppression, and that’s very much not true.
“Folks have to think about, how do we get to LGBTQ equality when Black folks and other communities of color are having different interactions with police and with larger systems, with incarceration,” she says, “[and when communities of color are] disproportionately impacted by healthcare, and are disproportionately [lacking] economic power.
“I want to make sure that at the end of this we aren’t so worried about putting liaisons in places or coming up with big binders of information with a ton of focus groups, and then the same people are being unfairly targeted by police and we have the same incarceration levels and education levels, and our health outcomes for Black and Brown folks are still not what they should be.
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