How #Queer People Can Fight Back Against Neighborhood #Gentrification
#Real_estate developers and cities are turning historic #LGBTQ+ areas into playgrounds for the #rich. How can we push back?
Griffin-Gracy, known to people in her community a “Miss Major,” is a veteran of both the #Stonewall rebellion and the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis. She said she declined the White House’s invite. Now, when she’s in New York, she avoids the Stonewall. “To me, it’s unrecognizable from the place I knew in the 1970s,” she tells them. — a time when the city was alive with radical resistance against social standards that benefited only a privileged few. “When I go back [to the West Village], or the [Chelsea] piers, it makes me cry to see what they’ve done to it.” Through Miss Major’s eyes, the area has been gentrified beyond recognition.
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