One of the protesters is a wheelchair user
too.
The protesters, calling themselves
''Queers Revolt'', were engaging in a peaceful protest against big corporations
marching in pride and are holding up the transgender pride flag.
You can read their statement to the press here.
People from the crowd start yelling abuse
and throwing buckets of water. The level of hostility from the crowd is
intense, a lot of whom would have also been members of the queer community.
Particularly poignant is when someone from
the crowd says to them ‘’you're a minority. You're a minority. Remember that is
all that you are’’. Yes, WE ARE A MINORITY as a queer community. We shouldn't
be treating each other like this, especially trans people.
People have a right to protest and to ask
as all to think about why what was a protest march has now been co-opted by big
corporations. Coles marches by and everyone cheers, someone from the crowd says
‘’remember what you're here for, pay them [the protesters] no attention’’,
Coles disappears from view and everyone goes back to booing and abusing the
protesters.
We cheer big corporations who do next to
nothing for lgbTI people and abuse our own people? Is this progress? Is this what assimilation
looks like?
I went in Pride March because i think its
important to show that people with disabilities are part of the queer
community, that we have sexualities and/or gender diversity. But after
seeing this I'm going to think twice about going in it next year.
