We think about summer, we think about civil rights, but we're literally standing in the footsteps of some giants in the movement.

Why does this place matter to what you're doing today?

I like to joke only say that it's the second leg of the civil rights movement.

The same exact thing Dr. King did here in Selma.

In the 60s we are doing here in Selma here in 2022.

But now we are literally walking in the footsteps.

We're going to be going through the same motions taking the same steps that our ancestors made in the first leg.

And this is just our time and I feel like we have more resources more opportunity now because we've already been shown how to do.

Quentin Bell and I are standing on the banks of the Alabama River staring up at the Edmund Pettis Bridge.

We're marching today to dramatize to the nation, dramatize to the world.

Hundreds and thousands of Negro citizens of Alabama but particularly here in the Blight God area, the Nye Direct to vote.

We intend to march to Montgomery to put decent St. Grievous to Governor George C. Wallace.

We intend to march to Montgomery for Texas's lifetime from Selma to Alabama.

It was here on Sunday, March 7, 1965 where peaceful black marchers were chased on the worst back and beaten by white law enforcement officers and deputized citizens.

The images from that day filled America's television sets and shook up the world.

The day would become known as Bloody Sunday, a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement.

Quentin Bell comes here to the foot of the Edmund Pettis Bridge when he needs inspiration to carry on his own fight, liberation for black LGBTQ people.

What's the difference of being counted as three fifths of a person back then and then having my rights stripped away from me because I'm trans or because I'm queer? It's the same thing.

So we're talking about civil rights, we're talking about rights for the people, rights of the people.

Quentin is the founder and executive director of the Knights and Orkid Society or TKO.

TKO is an organization that serves the Black Queer community in Alabama and across the South.

They're taking care of their people and along the way reclaiming a term queer, which was once used to demean and belittle, using it to unite and empower Black members of the LGBTQ community.

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