Two-Spirit Pride Month in Los Angeles, California
It’s June, which means it’s Pride Month for the LGBTQ community. 2019 is the 50th year since the Stonewall Riots took place in New York City, which lead to the gay liberation and civil rights movement. Many young LGBTQ should learn a bit more about individuals like Marsha P. Johnson and Stormé DeLarverie to understand the significance of the Stonewall Riots generated for generations to come. In 1970, the first anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, New York City hosted the first-ever-first ever Gay Pride March that generated many LGBTQ pride marches and festivals worldwide, hence why June is a month of honoring our LGBTQ communities. If you visit NYC visit 53 Christopher Street, as the renovated Stonewall Inn is now an official “National Historical Landmark” thanks to your former president Barack Obama. I went there last time I was in NYC and during my youthful life, I lived in Greenwich Village in the early 90s.
As for the Native American LGBTQ2S community, their existence has been known since time immemorial. “2S,” or the English term, “Two-Spirit”, is an attempt to incorporate and honor the word in hundreds of native languages for a person whose persona projects both masculine and…