Latest / PRIDE Daily / Transgender activists protest at Stonewall’s London offices
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- 0:41Speaker 2: Pride Daily, Hi theh I'm keV McGrath coming up. A
- 0:45Speaker 2: pepper spray attack at Pride First though, transgender activists have
- 0:52Speaker 2: staged a protest and the offices of LGBTQ PUS rights
- 0:56Speaker 2: organization Stone Wall in London. Campaign Is react into the
- 1:00Speaker 2: endorsement of Harry Potter's Wicked Grandma earlier this year by
- 1:04Speaker 2: the organization's incoming chairperson. This was swiftly rowed back, but
- 1:09Speaker 2: queer advocates declaring huge respect for someone who's got shall
- 1:13Speaker 2: we say, unfavorable views about trans people. It's not great.
- 1:16Speaker 3: We are asking for a public condemnation of des blatantly
- 1:20Speaker 3: transphobic rhetoric and actions. We are calling for further assurance
- 1:24Speaker 3: that so all UK's campaigns and programs going forward will
- 1:28Speaker 3: continue to promote trans inclusion. It's time for you to
- 1:31Speaker 3: live up your name and the history that started you.
- 1:34Speaker 2: That's part of the protest from Surrey Transaction and defund
- 1:37Speaker 2: transphobes in Stonewall's offices. Harry Potter's Wicked Grandma denies being
- 1:42Speaker 2: a transphobe, and we all deem that to be entirely credible.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Pride Daily, Next Squares and allies at Rome Pride have
- 1:50Speaker 2: been attacked with pepper spray. It's believed the floats of
- 1:54Speaker 2: transgender support organization gender X and the Rainbow Families Group
- 1:58Speaker 2: were among those targets, leaving people including children, unable to
- 2:03Speaker 2: breathe with burning throats and panicking. Polis are reviewing security
- 2:07Speaker 2: footage and a photo of the alleged attackers, Pride Daily
- 2:12Speaker 2: and Clive Davis, the legendary bisexual music exec behind the
- 2:16Speaker 2: likes of Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera,
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- 2:34Speaker 2: their lives. He came out as by at the age
- 2:36Speaker 2: of eighty back in twenty thirteen. Across a career spanning decades,
- 2:41Speaker 2: Clive also brought us Barry Manilow, Alisha Keys, and Iggy
- 2:44Speaker 2: Pop plus Maroon five. So you know, can't have everything.
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