Remember that violence gave rights. It may be that time again.
Violence was the spark. The decades of creative, thoughtful non-violent protest and soft influence that followed is what gave rights.
Without the plausible threat of action, you will be ignored. Action could be violence (eg: throwing a brick at a cop), or economic (eg: we're all going to stop working for you, we're all going to stop spending money at your business). But there needs to be something.
When it's just "we meet up for an hour on saturday, sing, and go then home," that's just not very effective on its own. You can sing and dance, but there needs to be a backing of "If you don't treat us well, we can hurt you" if you want to be taken seriously.
Liberal ahh thought
Ah yes, when the organizations sanitized out trans people, an integral part of stonewall, that gave us plenty of rights /s
Can I throw bricks too? I'm angry enough, I'm ready.
who are these people that still have corporate sponsors for their local pride events and do not anticipate facing violence
Liberals.
