Justice Smith comes out as queer, calls queer and trans inclusion on Black Lives Matter
Judge Smith has a message for Black Lives Matter protesters: Queer and trans lives must be included in the movement.
In an Instagram post on Friday night, the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom star expressed her solidarity with the black and trans victims of police brutality, while dating as a homosexual, and revealed that she is in a relationship with the Queen Sugar star. , Nicholas Ashe.
"[Ashe] and I protested in New Orleans today. We sang 'Black Trans Lives Matter' 'Black Queer Lives Matter' 'All Black Lives Matter'. As a queer black man, I was disappointed to see certain people eager to say Black Lives Matter but they shut up when Trans / Queer was added, "Smith wrote in the post. "I want to reiterate this sentiment: if your revolution does not include Black Queer voices, it is anti-black. If your revolution agrees to let black trans people like #TonyMcDade escape from the cracks to free only black cishet men , it's anti-black. "
McDade is a transgender black man who was killed by a Tallahassee Police Department officer on May 27. No one has been charged in the case, although a judge recently denied a motion to conceal the officer's identity. A petition calling for justice for McDade currently has more than 1 million signatures.
"Revolution is not about appeal," Smith continued in his post. "It is about demanding what should have been given to us from the beginning. What should have been given to black, queer and trans people from the beginning. What is the right to exist. Live and prosper in public. Without fear of persecution or threat of violence. "
Addressing Ashe, he added: "You have been my rock and guiding light through all of this and I love you very much. I know that on the other side of this is change, although the fight is far from over."
Protests nationwide have continued throughout the week after the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer. The officer, who knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, has been charged with second-degree murder, and the other three officers on the scene at the time accused of aiding and abetting.
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