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The discussion happened be ore Trump s nomination o obert . Kennedy r. to serve as secretary, ave el don or director o the enters or isease ontrol and re vention, and Marty Ma ary to lead the ood and ru Ad ministration.
ill be very important or us, ose said. ho they put at the ce o ivil i hts at ill be incredibly im portant or us. The assistant secretary or health has, under emocratic administrations, and in epublican administra tions, been a champion or us, sometimes li e Trump . s Assistant ecretary or ealth Admiral Brett iroir, ho did hat he could or us.
e continued, This is the first time that re uires, ill re uire, a enate confirmed person, and so that is o in to be somethin to atch. m not as concerned about al ays, unless they find someone really, really cra y to ta e over. A is a orry because it could chan e ust ho e vie dru s and dru re ulations and ho those et ap proved.
ose added that he is al ays atchin MB, because the people ho ma e the bud et decide ho money ets spent and it remains unclear hether the ne administration ill see a ne director o the ce o ational A olicy. no a lot o people, particularly L BT ol s, ho are li e, oh, shit. e are in trouble, Bas erville told the Blade. And hat does that mean or my care hat does that mean or people ho are sayin , m a Blac trans oman ho s livin ith these proposals that ol s are tal in about, particularly out o ro ect and Trump, and the rhetoric ho does that impact me hile e are desirin and hopin or the best, Bas er ville said, the reality is that thin s that e have seen, at least
the rhetoric, hasn t been hope ul. And so e re ust hopin that there are uardrails in place that help to maintain and control as best as possible some o the thin s that may be oin on.
e added, As a community, e re really ust thin in li e it s oin to be a shit sho , but hat does that mean or us o do e persevere throu h and hat do e need to do to '()*+',-+.//(012.3)45+'()*+',6+.*-,1,627.2,(1+.//(012.3)45+ and continue the fi ht o advocacy
Bas erville said his bi est concern is sa ety and the ays in hich the Trump administration is oin to chal len e ol s ability to eel sa e hether based on their immi ration status or ender or se ual identity.
Trump, in his rhetoric, has emboldened ol s ith di er ent ideals and opinions to really lean into some o the hatred and the bi otry and the thin s that challen e and impose di ficulties on ol s sa ety, he said. ol s aren t eelin sa e at home, i they re not eelin sa e in their communities, they re not oin to access any o the health care, or any o the other thin s, and eel li e they re empo ered to do that. n the case Braid ood v. Becerra, the Biden arris admin istration has de ended the principle that the . . reven tive ervices Tas orce can ma e covera e determinations about preventatives li e pre e posure prophyla is ( r ), hich is ta en to reduce the ris o transmission.
nder the ne t Trump administration, e re actually very concerned about the overnment reversin its role, ose said, hich could eopardi e covera e mandates or contra ceptives, too. han in the position on Braid ood is pretty uic and easy or them to do. They can pull out o that pret ty ast.
t s a hole s eep, he said. Li e, the ar ument is that the . . reventive ervices Tas orce is not an assi ned body and voted on and thus they should not have prescribin au thority to set standards, and that hole piece has been sent
bac to the district court rom the . . ourt o Appeals or the i th ircuit.
obody ants to pay or preventative medicine, is hat they are tryin to say, ose e plained. And that the overn ment doesn t have a ri ht to tell us hat the preventive med icine is. And then they as ed or the court to stri e do n the hole A A, hich as ust antastical. But it s still an active case, and e don t no hat s oin to happen i the . . overnment s itches its position on it. ima ine that state attorneys eneral, ho have been trac in the case, ould step in, but e ll have to see hat their capacity loo s li e. ur ar ument has al ays been that i you ant to have your reli ion, that s fine, but you don t et to use overnment dollars to discriminate, ose said. And i you ant to have the overnment plan, and you ant a overnment support, you can t discriminate a ainst people. you anted to set up your o n private system, that s on you, but you don t et to ta e public dollars and do that ith them.
ith respect to r as ell as other public health mat ters, ose noted some other reasons or concern includ in some thin s in ro ect that indicate there ill be reater de erence to all thin s li e reli ious e emptions and conscience clauses and hatnot, thou h he said it is unclear ho ar the ne t administration ould be able to ta e this. ome o their bi est health people aren t all anti r , ose said. The community has continuously reminded epublicans that onald Trump did create the ndin the pidemic initiative that has helped move the needle. And so there is some promise there. They aren t all ull on, li e, anti r all the time, but they are ary o it.
e added that hile o cials in Trump . ere not the bi est ans o the , they ere fi htin so many other battles that they ere unable to substantially reorient the public health a ency.
They didn t o bac to some o the re ressive years o , li e, no promo homo, here you could not tal about ay people or anythin that made ay li e seem li e a ood thin , ose said.
There ere more Bush people bac then, he said, a lot o hom still have the le acy o doin A ith the presi dent, li e iroir, ho or ed on pediatric A as part o his career, and so he as illin to push or some thin s that e ouldn t have seen other ise.
ose added that that s ho he and lon time ational n stitute o Aller y and n ectious iseases irector Anthony auci ot to ether and or ed to create, ith the Trump people, the ndin the pidemic initiative.
At the same time, those same people ho said, o , these numbers are really bad and e should do some thin about it e re li e, but e hate all these L BT people and their health, and so e re not oin to have any non dis crimination rules , and e don t care i e ic them o their health care, and e don t care i they re invisible in society, ose said.
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Lessons on activism and resilience that seem more crucial than ever
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n times o trouble, movies can o er us a chance temporarily, at least to escape our or ries. ometimes, thou h, escape is not the ans er. hen the political climate turns stormy, they can also be a li eline, connectin us ith our history and helpin us to clari y here e ve been, here e need to o, and ho e mi ht mana e to et there. ith that in mind, here s a list o reat movies about L BT activism, each ith particular relevance to the cultural challen es e ace as America braces itsel or another round o Trumpism because besides educatin us about our past, they have the po er to inspire us as e prepare to fi ht or our uture.
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erhaps ironically, the first title (and only non documentary) on our list is not an American tale, but a true story rom the K, a fictionali ed chronicle o Lesbians and ays upport the Miners (L M) a roup o L BT activists ho allied ith stri in coal miners in Thatcher era Britain. irected by Matthe archus and ritten by tephen Beres ord, it balances humor and ravitas as it ollo s a youn , still closeted student ( eor e MacKay) and his involvement ith a roup o ueer activists ho decide to raise money to support elsh miners impacted by the British Minin tri e o . espite initial hostility rom the miners, a coalition is or ed that lends stren th to both causes, ultimately leadin to the incorporation o ay and lesbian ri hts into the o cial Labour arty plat orm. An in ectiously thrillin portrayal o the trans ormative po er o solidarity, it s a film that e emplifies the importance o intersectionality and the need or diverse mar inali ed communities to unite and ta e collective action a ainst oppression. The messa e e are stron er to ether than e are apart. Also starrin Bill i hy, melda taunton, ominic est, and Andre cott, it s as entertainin as it is inspirin , a eel ood movie that also fires us up to stand firm a ainst the orces o bi otry and repression.
o, e re not dissin us an ant s e cellent biopic Mil , eaturin ean enn s star turn in the title role and ustin Lance Blac s elo uent screenplay (both o hich sna ed s cars), but or our purposes here, this documentary rom director ob pstein hich on an scar itsel provides a less romantici ed account o Mil s li e and or . The first openly ay elected o cial in ali ornia, he success ully ou ht a ainst the discriminatory Bri s nitiative ( amously championed by beauty ueen turned spo esmodel Anita Bryant), hich sou ht to ban ay teachers in public schools, somethin that eels particularly relevant durin a time hen conservative American politicians are a ressively or in to remove L BT content rom schools and erode ueer representation in politics. Thou h his assassination alon side an rancisco Mayor eor e Moscone (by ello ity upervisor and political rival an hite) is
probably a more amiliar piece o history in the public ima ination today, it s the roundbrea in L BT advocacy he spearheaded that orms the centerpiece o his endurin le acy, somethin that the tra edy o his martyrdom should not be allo ed to overshado . This movin , intimate documentary hich eaves archival oota e and intervie s into a compellin narrative about the intersections o politics and identity, reminds us o the sta es hen mar inali ed voices o unrepresented by our le islators, and eatures narration rom ueer icon arvey ierstein provides a more detailed and authentic loo at the reat or he accomplished durin his short tenure than an ant s fictionali ed historical drama.
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