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What if your daughter or son were
gay? How would you react?
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My daughter and son aren't gay,
so I don't have to worry about it.
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And if they were...
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Then we’d be done.
I’d be done with them.
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If you want to be gay, you be gay
by yourself. Not around me.
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Would I still love them?
No, I wouldn't.
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I would not recognize them.
They would be dead to me.
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Dead to you?
- Yes.
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I believe we are about to have
the greatest Pride celebration
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in the history of this globe.
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Hello, hello, hello, everybody.
Make some noise.
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Are you as excited as we are?
When we say "happy," you say
"Pride."
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Happy...
- Pride.
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Happy...
- Pride.
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My name is Marieke Dermul.
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I don't call myself gay.
Not straight, not bisexual.
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What am I, anyway?
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Maybe I like people.
When I fell in love with a woman,
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my family and friends embraced
this new idea.
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So, I'm lucky.
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But unfortunately, I know
a lot of other stories, too.
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So, I belong to the LGBTQ community,
but which letter do I represent?
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Actually, I don't know, myself.
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And maybe I don't have to.
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I like to go to the Prides
in Belgium.
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For me, the Pride is always
one, big party:
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an extravagant parade
and an ode to freedom and diversity.
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It's the same in New York,
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where the biggest Pride ever
takes place.
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This is where it all started,
with the uprising at Stonewall.
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I want to ask you...
Why are you here?
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Why am I here?
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I'm here for the 50th anniversary
of Stonewall,
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and also to celebrate World Pride.
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Stonewall is important
to the LGBT community,
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but it also is important to black and
brown LGBT community members.
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And me being the latter.
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It's an emotional experience for me.
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It reminds me of everyone who came
before me and brought me here.
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Without Stonewall, we wouldn't
be able to be who we are today.
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It was the catalyst
in just changing everything
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and forcing...
almost forcing everybody to get up
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and fight for what they believe in
and fight for their rights, you know?
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It was a riot, and now it's this.
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And it just means a lot to me.
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I notice Stonewall is still alive
with younger generations.
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The Stonewall Inn was and still is
a café for LGBT people,
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transgenders and drag queens.
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Fifty years ago, gay bars serving
alcohol were officially banned,
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but they were tolerated
in exchange for kickbacks.
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If they didn't pay, the police raided
them, and people were arrested.
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In a park near Stonewall,
I am meeting with Mark Segal.
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He was there when the riots broke out
after yet another police raid.
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Can you tell us about
what happened during the riots?
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The police burst in,
and I mean burst in.
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They slammed people
up against the walls.
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They called us every profanity
that we’ve ever heard.
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Fairy, fag, dyke, queer...
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I was terrified inside the bar.
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But when I got outside the bar,
we were in great numbers.
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Fifty to seventy-five of us.
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I felt empowered
for the first time in my life.
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We started throwing stones
and anything we could pick up.
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The police were trapped in the bar:
the first time we imprisoned them.
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They were always the ones
to imprison us.
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They were scared of us.
We were not scared of them.
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What were you fighting for
at that time?
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I don't think we knew it then,
but what we really were fighting for
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was a change
in how society thought of us.
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There’s one word I've used
throughout my entire life,
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or for the last fifty years:
visibility.
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If you know who we are, we're
no longer the monster in the closet.
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Stonewall marked the start
of the worldwide rainbow movement.
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Exactly one year after the riot,
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the very first Pride ever
took place in New York.
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At the forefront of the battle were
Latinos, Afro-Americans,
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transgenders and drag queens,
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such as Sylvia Rivera
and Marsha P. Johnson.
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Even 50 years later,
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the Pride is still the day
when equal rights are celebrated.
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However, I also hear
a lot of criticism around me
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about what the Pride
looks like today.
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Straight people come
to the World Pride.
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It's not a safe space
for gays only anymore.
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In a fancy loft in Manhattan,
I meet Alexandra Tereshonkova.
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She organizes the Dyke March,
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an alternative march
next to the big Pride parade.
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The Dyke March is necessary
because we need representation
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of lesbians and dykes in Pride.
We’ve been around for 27 years,
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and we began as a protest
to a mostly white, gay male
movement.
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She says that "dyke" used to be
a swear word,
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but is now a name embraced
by the community itself.
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It's a collective word for women,
lesbians, trans persons
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or those who don't feel at home
in the man/woman pigeonhole.
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We want to raise awareness
of how many women
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are in the gay movement.
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Over the last 10 years
that I’ve been in it,
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it has grown from 10,000
to 20,000 that show up,
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just for New York City alone.
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I ask Alexandra if any men
are welcome at the Dyke March,
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for example men who want to show
that they, too, support the movement.
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We don’t want to involve cis men.
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In my experience,
the cis men take over the movement.
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So, we want to prove
that we can do this on our own.
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Cis men, men who are born men
and who feel like men,
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are not welcome at the Dyke March.
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It's why the marches are a safe space
where we can all take off our clothes
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and be ourselves
and be among 20,000 queer women.
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Send her Victoria
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Mary and Gloria
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she’ll lick clit on the floor with ya
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God is a dyke
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How has life changed for lesbians
and dykes since Stonewall?
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I think lesbians and dykes are now
able to assimilate better in society,
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which is both good and bad.
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And I think people are able
to be out more than they were.
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There are no gay raids happening,
like Stonewall.
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But I can say I have a close friend
who wore a Dyke March T-shirt
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and got beat up on the subway
last year.
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I feel a lot of resentment
from Alexandra.
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She is convinced
that the fight is still not over.
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You have to be frustrated,
the way society is now.
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You have to be angry.
We can’t afford to be comfortable.
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It's impressive to feel
Alexandra's activism.
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The creativity, daring
and political slogans
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with which she fights
for more visibility
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of lesbians and dykes at the Pride
move me.
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Later that evening,
at The Stonewall Inn,
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I meet Miss Simone,
a black trans woman.
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A lot of people of color feel
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that Pride has discriminated
and excluded them.
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That’s why they have their own Pride.
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She attends the World Pride
and the Black Pride,
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a march especially for black gays
and transgenders,
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the group that experiences
the most discrimination.
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Now that we've got
all of these rights,
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you have all this other gay people
coming out,
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excluding and discriminating
against their own community.
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And anyone who says differently
is a liar.
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And it comes more
from the gay community
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than from the straight community.
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You don’t look the way I want.
Get out of here.
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You don’t have what I want.
Get out of here.
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Even about The Stonewall Inn bar,
the haven for gays and queers,
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she feels a lot of frustration.
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This place means nothing
to me personally.
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The bar owners don’t want to hire
a lot of black girls doing shows
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or Latino girls doing shows.
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We have our own bars.
You understand?
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This is a museum to a lot of us.
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It's just one day in the year,
which is Gay Pride.
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But the rest of the year,
this is nothing.
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A lot of this is for television.
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A lot of this sounds great.
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A lot of this is for media.
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Do you understand?
It’s a beautiful story.
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It’s a beautiful lie.
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What Alexandra and Miss Simone
told me keeps coming back.
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The more I talk to people,
the clearer it is
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that not everyone is happy
with the Stonewall legacy
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or the evolution of the Pride.
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Many think that the Pride is
being hijacked by companies
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as a marketing stunt.
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Pinkwashing,
that's what they call it.
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Now that I pay attention,
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you can't walk past a shop window
without seeing a rainbow flag.
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One might think:
ah, that's good, all that support.
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Only... the rest of the year,
those flags won't be there.
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There's also the criticism
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that companies pay
for a nice spot for their float,
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while the real LGBTQ organizations
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sometimes have to walk
at the back of the Pride.
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These frustrations are heard
in another protest march:
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the Queer Liberation March.
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One day later,
I meet one of the organizers
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on the outskirts of town,
in an abandoned building.
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We forgot that
we didn't finish our march
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before we decided to parade.
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The work is not close to done.
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Bizzy and his colleagues make
pamphlets and artwork
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that will help shape
the Queer Liberation March.
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We’re making art in protest.
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It's... These are all pieces
that are going to march
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from Christopher Street
up to Central Park.
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And so this, right here,
that you are seeing in front of you,
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is part of a series of puppets
that we’re making.
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Actually, I don’t know if you want to
pan over to him a little bit, but...
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Can you hold your puppet up
a little bit?
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This is our Keith Haring,
the ghost of Keith Haring.
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And so, we're making these forms
that evoke queer ancestry.
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Our past.
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In ways that are sort of symbolic.
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Sort of a raising of the dead, making
enough noise to raise the dead.
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And like: who would we want
to come back
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and be in this march with us?
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For Bizzy, Keith Haring is
a role model.
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He was one of the first artists to
openly express himself as a gay man
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in the '80s and later died of AIDS.
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The fight against HIV and AIDS is
one of the group's major actions.
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Every 30 seconds,
someone dies of AIDS on this planet.
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And every 20 seconds,
somebody else gets infected with it.
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That’s outrageous.
Young kids are dying.
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Still, in 2019, I know
twenty-somethings dying
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of AIDS-related complications.
And that’s heartbreaking to me.
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This is an important theme for Bizzy.
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He tells me
he's HIV-positive himself.
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Here's a personal thing:
I went to the pharmacy
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to get my medicine after they said
everything was in order.
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They showed me
a 9,999-dollar price tag
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on my one bottle of medication
for one month.
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Obviously, I did not leave
the pharmacy with medication.
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This... We are not there.
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Give me my fucking medication.
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What should Pride then be,
fifty years after Stonewall?
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It should be personal.
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It should be a kind of liberty
that says:
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this is what makes me proud,
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and I will move through the world
in the way that I want to,
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with the body that I want to,
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with the morals that I want to,
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with the sex that I want to.
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Be queer in the streets
and in the sheets
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and not have to pretend.
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We can’t parade.
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We have to fucking march.
But we must dance while we do it.
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Stonewall was a riot.
Queers don’t deny it.
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We want liberation.
Fuck your corporation.
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We want liberation.
Fuck your corporation.
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Now.
What do we want?
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Gun control. Now.
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Fuck Trump. Fuck Trump.
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We’re queer.
- We're queer.
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We’re fabulous.
- We're fabulous.
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Trans lives: they matter here.
- Trans lives: they matter here.
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Stonewall never ended.
It has never ended for me.
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It's normal for you to hate me.
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No, it is normal for our people
to hate those who hate...
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Why are you here?
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I’m here because I am defending
this nation against the devil.
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Because it’s an abomination to God.
- Why?
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It’s against God’s law.
- You mean the Bible?
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Yes, the Bible.
The Ten Commandments.
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Where in the Bible is it written
that gay love is forbidden?
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I can show that.
Hold this for me.
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If a man also lie with mankind
as he lieth with a woman,
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both of them have committed
an abomination.
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They shall be put to death.
Their blood shall be upon them.
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And this was written 2,500 years ago?
- Even longer than that, yes.
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But I think, if you look
at all these people,
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you are the only one
with this cross.
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So, don’t you feel alone in this?
- That’s fine. That’s okay.
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I just have Jesus.
That’s my number one friend.
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And that's the one friend
who died for me.
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What if your child
turns out to be gay?
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I’d pray and supplicate to my God
to save my son
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from abomination, from sin.
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So, you would never agree
or support him or her?
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Never, no.
- Wow, that's...
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Because it’s wrong.
It’s wrong. It’s wrong.
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That same night, I never expected
to walk into a church
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which is open to LGBT people
and queers.
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Stronger still,
besides karaoke on Saturdays,
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the church is also there
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for the difficult moments
in their lives.
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I don't believe my eyes.
I haven’t seen anything like this.
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We practice a radical welcome.
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That means everyone is welcome
in the church.
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This is Mark Ersan,
a Lutheran pastor.
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You can’t just say:
Oh, come on in and be like us.
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We have to make space for people
to be their authentic self
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in a loving, safe environment
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where we also talk
about the love of God.
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It’s very revolutionary.
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In fact, for the first couple
of years that we were doing it, I...
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I was actually hesitant
to tell my colleagues
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what we were doing.
I thought people would think:
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you’re nuts, you’re crazy,
you can’t do this.
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There are some people who will look
at what we’re doing and be outraged.
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And so in that way,
yes, I’m pushing.
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I’m pushing boundaries
from traditional practice.
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Would you call yourself an activist?
- Was Jesus an activist? Yes.
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And am I following in His way?
I do the best I can.
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I keep stumbling from one surprise
to the other.
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So many different opinions,
and all of them emphatic.
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It's really: take it or leave it.
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Hence all those
different protest marches,
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sometimes even directed
against World Pride.
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Then I think: don't they weaken
the strength of fighting together?
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Or are they just necessary,
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so that each group can
really make their point?
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What is certain is:
the battle hasn't been fought yet.
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Not even fifty years
after Stonewall and the first Prides.
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I hope the people watching this
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do not think that Pride is
something that is a historical event:
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okay, we’re done, we fought,
we’re good.
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It’s a pride to have in ourselves.
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This is Je'Jae Cleopatra Daniels,
an artist, writer and activist,
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who identifies as non-binary,
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not fitting into one of
the classic gender pigeonholes.
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I meet Je'Jae by chance
on Christopher Street Pier,
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and we start talking.
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We are now at the pier
near Christopher Street
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that was known since the '70s to be
a place of organizing and support
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for people who were LGBT,
who felt discarded.
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Gay men, in the '70s,
came to find love.
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It moved and evolved
into homeless people coming
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and voguing and dancing,
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to people coming here to still
be able to be themselves
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in a safe environment.
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It’s like walking down memory lane,
because both for good and for bad,
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there are people
who are here to be themselves
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and some who are not here.
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Marsha P. Johnson was found
drowning here...
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well, floating.
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And they said it was a suicide,
but actually she was murdered.
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If you could make a wish
for the future, what would it be?
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This year, I said:
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the biggest gift you could
give yourself, to your pride, is:
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celebrate your body
and celebrate your worth.
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Because the more people who are
in pride with themselves,
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the more we have power together
to fight for a good world.
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Finding pride in yourself:
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that's what Je'Jae says
is at the heart of the protest.
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At times people wonder
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why a Pride always has to be
so extravagant.
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But according to Je'Jae,
you can only break open the boxes
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by putting it in the spotlight,
loud and clear.
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Like a cry for freedom.
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This is World Pride,
and we're here for a party tonight.
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It isn't a show, it's a party, so if
you're having fun, make some noise.
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We're happy to have you if you're
a boy, a girl, gay, bi or lesbian,
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if you're in between, transitioning
and everything else happening
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and all that. You're welcome
if you don't hurt anyone.
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Can we abide by those rules?
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It's my last day in New York.
After a week full of protest marches,
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it's confronting
that after 50 years of struggle,
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there is still no real
equal opportunity for everyone.
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How long will it be
until all homophobia and transphobia
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have disappeared and
everyone can really be themselves?
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Here we go.
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We, as an LGBTQIA+ community,
need to fight now,
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more than ever.
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More than ever, as the rights
of our community are rolled back.
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We are to be united, and not divided.
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And if you're a straight person
here today,
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use your privilege to speak out
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against the oppression
happening to us today.
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Pride will never be the same
for me again.
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I will dance, laugh and party,
but at the same time,
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I will experience it
more consciously as a protest.
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I will think of Bizzy, Mark,
Alexandra, Je’Jae and Miss Simone
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and all the others
who made me feel
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why the protest is
still necessary today.
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But also to all of us,
who don't feel free or happy,
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and for whom we have to keep
fighting in the Prides, but also beyond.
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Happy
Pride