We’re both.”Īs the lives of LGBTQ+ people are celebrated in June during Pride month, groups have found ways to merge those festivities with America’s newest federal holiday, Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 - over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation - that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were told they’d been freed. “And so we have the opportunity to really celebrate both of those at the same time because just because we’re LGBTQ doesn’t remove our Blackness. “Sometimes I think the Black community forgets that LGBTQ people are still Black as well,” Green said. DALLAS (AP) - From speaking at a health equity forum to striking a pose to the beats of a DJ set at a party on a pedestrian bridge, Naomi Green spent one weekend this month jumping from one event in Dallas to another that celebrated Juneteenth and Pride together.
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