‘Your Attraction to Me...Is Not a Reason to Kill Me’: Laverne Cox Speaks Out About the Murders of Black Trans Women
by Anne Branigin on The Grapevine, shared by Anne Bra from on (#4J6S6)
It ought to be common knowledge by now that, without the contributions of black trans women, there would be no gay rights movement in the U.S. Still, they remain the most marginalized and vilified of all LBGTQ groups, a fact that is most evident in the disturbingly high rate of black trans women being killed.