A Response to the George Floyd Demonstrations
Biology professor writes about pride, race, identity, and science.
Every June for Pride we celebrate a riot: Stonewall was a key event that gave birth to the queer rights movement and was started by two trans women of color, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. The LGBTQA+ community is inherently tied to the lives and actions of Black and Latinx people in the 1960s, the frequent targets of police brutality who had had enough and fought back. While the queer rights movement has made visible progress in the time since Stonewall, we must acknow