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attended a rally for transgender people on June 13, 2020, in Roxbury.
Frustrated LGBTQ activists who have been unsuccessfully pushing Boston Pride to diversify its board upended a planned mayoral debate by persuading three leading contenders to abandon the forum for their own.
City councilors Andrea Campbell, Annissa Essaibi George, and Michelle Wu dropped out of Boston Pride’s planned Monday debate after being invited to a simultaneous one hastily arranged by activists who are critical of the organization.
“We are holding this forum at the same time as Boston Pride’s forum for the same reason we’re holding the Trans Resistance March on the same day as Boston Pride — to boycott Boston Pride until they transition leadership,” the invitation to the candidates said.
Last year, with the Boston Pride parade and festival called off for COVID, activists staged an alternative event at Franklin Park — a vigil and march for transgender victims of violence. A second annual vigil is planned for June 12.
The dueling debates are the latest power play by LGBTQ activists — led by Mass NOW, Trans Resistance, the Transgender Emergency Fund, and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition — to upstage Boston Pride, the group that organizes the city’s largest annual parade. Boston Pride infuriated activists last summer by not more forcefully backing the Black Lives Matter movement and by resisting longstanding requests for more diverse leadership and transgender representation.
Boston Pride’s leadership board has no Black members.
“Our cosponsors have been boycotting Boston Pride for a year now, since 80 percent of the volunteers resigned,” said Sasha Goodfriend, director of Mass Now. “Our demands have not changed. We want the mayor, we want the mayoral candidates, and we want community organizations to take a stand, to hold Boston Pride accountable to being representative of the community.”
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