The Ferguson movement included queer women leaders and self-correcting inclusiveness.

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. As DeRay put it, “Seeing love on display in the midst of trauma is something I never would have thought I would have seen in protest.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 597