As a global pandemic threatens the global community across class and race, the coronavirus quarantine is further exposing the gap between queer homeless youth and young adults. Kate Barnhart, executive director for News Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth, Jazmine Perez, Marsha's House program director, and Alex Roque, president and executive director for the Ali Forney Center all discussed the challenges facing the LGBTQ homeless community.

Gay bars are an essential pivotal place for history, and the lesbian bar had become a rare breed even before a global pandemic shut down the nightlife down indefinitely. Lisa Cannistraci, founder and owner of Henrietta Hudson, the oldest surviving bar in the country told her personal and professional story. She was joined by bartender Desiree Rotella. They discussed the challenges facing lesbian bars commemorating pride in a pandemic as well as the response to the recent Black Lives Matter momentum.

51 years after the queers of Stonewall Inn fought back against police, there's a fresh anti-police brutality movement spreading across the world. Julian Sanjivan, co-President of InterPride, talked with Mattachine Magazine about the George Floyd protests and their resonance with the Stonewall Riots, celebrating Pride during a pandemic, and making the world safer for gender nonconforming people.

Trigger warning: sexual assault, police brutality

Outright Action International - Vulnerability Amplified: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBTIQ People

https://outrightinternational.org/content/vulnerability-amplified-impact-covid-19-pandemic-lgbtiq-people