Living Color: Love is Revolutionary When You're Black & Transgender

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The ‘Love is Revolutionary’ series highlights the love stories of black transgender couples and discusses why for them, loving out loud as proud transgender and queer black people is a revolutionary act. NBCBLKIgnite

Black transgender and gender non-conforming people are likely to live in extreme poverty making less than $10K a year. Twice the rate of the transgender community and four times the black populationOver one-fifth reported being HIV positive53% of survivors of hate crimes are people of color, transgender and gender non-conforming, but 73.1% of homicides.

Despite these stark statistics experienced by the black transgender community there are so many beautiful stories that don’t bubble to the surface. The ‘Love is Revolutionary’ series seeks to highlight the love stories of black transgender couples and discuss why for them, loving OUT loud as proud transgender and queer black people is a revolutionary act.

We see mostly about the black transgender community are devastating headlines and data that would have us believe that love doesn’t reside here. We believe what we see, so in an effort to expand the narrative around the black transgender community we interviewed three couples who did us the great honor of sharing their love: Activists, models, artists, parents, husbands and wives, these couples help us paint a new picture of possibility—and it looks revolutionary.

This is Part I of “BLKOUT,” a special series focusing on telling the stories of LGBTQ communities of color. The 'Love is Revolutionary' video series seeks to highlight the love stories of black transgender couples and discuss why for them, loving OUT loud as proud transgender and queer black people is a revolutionary act.

 

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The Soros social engineering for population control....propagate it thru media cultural acceptance via repetition.

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