heads up everybody there's one curse word in this episode. It's a good one though. You're gonna

enjoy it. I'm Jean Demby. I'm Shereen Madislamuraji and this is Code Switch. From NPR. So at this

point everybody knows George Floyd's name right but there are of course so many more names that

haven't made headlines or spark protests in the same way. I think it's significant that we're in

Pride Month and that we're fighting for justice for not just George Floyd, Beyonce or a mod

arbitrary but also for LGBTQ. Somebody just got I think two transgender just got shot within the

last week. Fewer people know about Tony McDade, the black trans man who was shot and killed by police

two days after George Floyd was killed. Or Dominique Remi Fels or Rhea Milton, black trans women who

were reported murdered two weeks later and within a 24 hour period of each other. Transluminers

are being murdered like every other day. Black trans women, they face racism on top of sexism,

on top of the gender fuffery that it is. According to the Human Rights Campaign at least 16

transgender or gender nonconforming people have been fatally shot or killed by other violent means

this year. On June 14th our producer Kamari Day Varajan went to the all Black Lives Matter protest

in Los Angeles. Thousands marched in protest against police brutality with a special focus on

LGBTQ victims and the voices you're hearing they're from that March. Black Lives Matter periods,

let me just make sure I list. Black Lives Matter, Black Trans Lives Matter, Black Children's

Lives Matter, Black Love Matter. That same day on the other side of the country in Brooklyn

an estimated 15,000 people participated in the March for Black Trans Lives. And the people at the

all Black Lives Matter march that Kamari spoke to you, they were saying how marches like these make

perfect sense. Black LGBTQ people are disproportionately victims of violence from both the police

and from everybody else. And they've been fighting this fight for a long time.

Clear rights was given to us by the Stonewall riots which were started by Black,

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