Queer black women centrally organized Ferguson’s Black Lives Matter protests
Evidence
The story revealed how complex the Ferguson movement was and is. A wide cross-section of the black community was out front in the protests. Openly queer women, for example, helped organize
#BlackLivesMatter. Alexis Templeton and Brittany Ferrell, cofounders of Millennial Activists United in Ferguson, fell in love during the protests (and later got engaged). And here in the middle of a heated action someone was willing to apologize for a hurtful homophobic remark to someone who was risking his life right beside him. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 597
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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