ON SUNDAY JUNE 27th, 2021….
LIVESTREAM PROGRAM WAS BROADCAST AT 3:30pm EST — WITH SPECIAL ASL CHANNEL STREAMING FROM THE DEAF QUEER COLLECTIVE YouTube CHANNEL
RECLAIM PRIDE COALITION
3rd QUEER LIBERATION MARCH
PRIDE SUNDAY 2021
LGBTQIA2S+ COMMUNITIES WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS ON JUNE 27TH
Livestream of the March will document while expanding access to the online communities.
The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) will take to the streets on Sunday, June 27th to stage the third annual Queer Liberation March. As in 2019 and 2020, this is a People’s March with no regimented contingents, no corporate sponsors, and no NYPD control over decision making or uniformed police marching. The Queer Liberation March revives the goals and spirit of the original Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970, born out of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising: social justice, freedom, and access for all!
Over the last year, the larger Queer and Trans communities have endured extraordinary challenges and difficulties brought on by the pandemic and its economic fallout, continued violent attacks committed by the NYPD on peaceful protesters, murders of Black Trans people, and the public expressions of anti-Trans bigotry and racism by alleged members of our communities, among many other issues of importance to our intersectional coalition.
As with the 2020 Queer Liberation March For Black Lives and Against Police Brutality, Reclaim Pride organizers will encourage marchers to wear masks and employ risk reduction strategies. Masks and sanitizer will also be provided at the gathering site and along the March route to keep this a safe event. Spare wheelchairs will also be ready along the March route to be utilized as needed. We pledge to make the March as accessible as possible: including ASL interpretation for our deaf people’s contingent & the accompanying Livestream. Attention is being paid to accessible subway stations near the gathering spot and end points, and street medics and marshals being positioned throughout the March.
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