Queer People of Color

The Queers Left Behind: How LGBT Assimilation Is Hurting Our Community's Most Vulnerable

The Queers Left Behind: How LGBT Assimilation Is Hurting Our Community's Most Vulnerable

An opinion piece by Colin Walmsley for The Huffington Post

So while love may have won for middle and upper class gays, many transgender people, queer people of color and queer homeless youth instead find themselves left behind by a community that has become increasingly defined by the interests of its white, cisgender, middle and upper class members.

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