Kiplyn Primus caught up with The Center for Civil and Human Rights on The Local Take on WCLK. They have launched a new platform in support of the LGBT community.
We speak with Ryan Roemerman, interim executive director of the center's LGBT Institute and Tracee McDaniels founder of the Juxtaposed Center for Transformation and a member of the programming board.
The new platform will provide a place and source for engagement with this community and the broader community. Ryan Roemerman speaks about the first LGBT installation at the Center for Civil and Human Rights. The exhibit which opened last week connects the LGBT community to the overall civil rights movement. It starts with the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York up to Atlanta today showcasing the individuals who fought to advance the rights of the LGBT community.
Tracee McDaniel, founder of the Juxtaposed Center for Transformation and author of the book Transitions speaks with us about Atlanta's Transgender community. While it may seem that many gains have been met including marriage rights and transgender cover models, the community still experiences rampant discrimination and vulnerability to assault and death. Tracee McDaniels explains that the fate of transgender women of color in the US is fragile. Every week one transgender woman of color is murdered in the US. Even with Laverne Cox on the TIME, the popular series Transparent and Caitlyn Jenner, many transgender women of color are without the same resources and their lives are disregarded by members of the general community. On November 20th there will be a Transgender Day of Remembrance to honor all of those in the community who have lost their lives.
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