Stonewall Returns Solid In 2025 (AUDIO)

This week I talked with Cathy Marino-Thomas, Gilbert Baker Foundation board member about the current state of our LGBTQ community especially with our transgender, intersex & non-binary American citizens being targeted by the new administration. Most recently the National Park Service has deleted references to transgender & queer people by removing the “TQ” part of the LGBTQ acronym from the Stonewall National Monument website launching a massive rally in NYC on Valentines Day. There will be another rally taking place this Saturday at the Stonewall National Monument in NYC to protest this blatant petty attack of federal erasure of our LGBTQ community. Marino-Thomas who is one of the rally organizers stresses to our audience that this is no time to stay at home. We need to show up & speak out & not allow 50 years of LGBTQ civil rights progress be ripped away with executive orders attempting to erase our history & our community. The new administration is trying to scapegoat our community in an attempt to distract the country to what is really happening to all of our freedoms. This isn’t the first time our LGBTQ community has been targeted by an administration’s hatred & lack of understanding of who we are. When Republican Dwight Eisenhower was elected President he issued Executive Order 10450 in 1953 that revoked Truman’s Executive Order 9835 of 1947 & dismantled Truman’s Loyalty Board Program. This resulted in 5,000 federal gays & lesbians to be fired in government that began the Lavender Scare witch hunt of the 1950’s & continued until 1975. I talked to Cathy about what can we do to ensure our LGBTQ community moves forward in the current Trump administration & her spin on our LGBTQ issues. LISTEN

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