The Surprising History of Pride in the South
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- LGBTQ+ rights advocates in South Carolina wanted to start a movement, even when coming out meant risking their relationships, their jobs, and their personal safety. So activists like Harriet Hancock built safe spaces that Queer and Trans people could call their own. A simple picnic in the late 1980s started a fight for LGBTQ+ equality in South Carolina that continues today.
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Thank you for this news piece! Harriet Hancock is MOTHER 👏🏽
Literally!
Bless this woman. Much love to South Carolina.
fell to tears as she spoke. we need more like her in the world.
Hoo boy, the idea of Harrier's son coming out in 1980's South Carolina must have been TERRIFYING for him. Heck, far too often coming out as anything other than straight and cisgender is too often a dangerous endevor for young people still.
Yup. And let's be honest, you absolutely can still be fired in many places. Oklahoma? It's a "right to work" state (Edit: apparently it's called "at will employment", not "right to work") so they can just be like we don't need you here anymore come get your last paycheck, and unless you can PROVE that's why they fired you, you're s.o.l. Heck, even if you could prove it, it's hard to actually get it to go that far realistically. We still have a long way to go. Just look to poor Nex for that.
@@Bugg...0_o Florida is also a "right to work" state where this COULD happen as well. Dunno if it does but the possibility is the issue.
@Bugg...0_o Actually that's at will employment not right to work. Right to work means job's can't force you to join a union. The horrible thing is at the moment, every single US state except Montana is an at will employment state, which is why employment discrimination is still such a massive deal. In Montana, at will employment is only for the first 6 months of a job.
@MDaggatt Thank you for the correction. As you can see, we aren't well educated on the subject here in Oklahoma, imagine that! 😂
"why are you still as involved as you are?" "because there is a need"
bless this woman
Man I wish every queer person had a mom like that!
Seeing people stand up for the marginalised really fills my heart with warmth and joy. The world needs people like Harriet!
Harriet is such a beautiful human being. I wish my mother would have taken my coming out so well. The grace and love this woman has brings tears to my eyes
The fight for equality must continue we can not take the few rights we have for granted Thanks for sharing and happy Pride ❤
I support all people LGBTQ included. We are all beautiful individuals and all human and it is our duty to try and be understanding in order to move forward and make positive changes! I always thought of calling people by name and if someone wants to expose or tell me something personal I will take steps to be respectful from then on because HUMANITY! Anyways, love you all and wish everyone well and the best always!!
As a queer who grew up in the New York area, and came out there in 1979, I am loving hearing the history of how Pride got going in South Carolina. More power to you all. 🏳🌈💖
I've always been jealous of y'all's piers down there during that time period and way gay male life seemed quite free in certain outdoor enclaves, like Fire Island and the piers (I love the photos from that time period).
And as lesbians I wish we still had MichFest, which was slandered and incorrectly portrayed so cruelly by trans who sent the female organizers of Michthousands of death threats, rape threats, bomb threats and ruined festivals with their misogynistic rape threats they yelled at us over loudspeakers.
All and rather than actually do something productive and positive like start their own goddamn festivals, they were and are hell-bent on destroying the one week a year that many thousands of women felt free.
Yes, Mrs. Hancock! Thank you for your work from a proud South Carolinian. 💛
❤🎉Greetings 🙏 💖 from Raleigh, North Carolina 🙏 😀 🎉❤
Harriet Hancock, Badasses of History
I live in Mississippi. I cannot even imagine how scary that must've been for her son. It's still scary, as others mentioned. But I'm glad to be able to say that my city has had a small but vibrant gay community for as long as I've lived here (mid-90s), and it's finally starting to grow, to get recognized and accepted by more of the old folks. I've got to go and find out how I can help them out with that.
Thank you for making a video about Southern LGBTQIA+ pride history and please make more! There is not enough out there about Gay Pride in the South.
wonderful! thanks so much!
Great information about some very inspiring people and a reminder of how vulnerable we still are.
Beautiful story! I’m so glad she is still with us
I didn't know this wonderful story. Thank you!!!
Fantastic energy and info in this video. Thank you!
Truth. The Diana Foundation is the oldest LGBT+ organization in the southerly US, started in the 1930s.
This is so great! Thank you for making it!
Absolutely adore this video! Can you do a queer eye view on the pride scene in Little Rock?
Wow! ❤
Hattie is ❤
Wow. My Russian Orthodox parents (horrible religion/cult) have never accepted me as a lesbian, and they have always been homophobic (I remember when we moved to the US and they accidentally stumbled upon pride at Provincetown 🌈, and as a 6 y/o I remember their revolt even though I knew as long as I can remember that I was just like the women celebrating their lives and love at pride even before my bio-"parents' " conversion to the religion when my bio-"father" had a reckless and overeager (and dangerous) cancer scare even though it was obvious since childhood and I told them at age 12, knowing that I was a lesbian since I was a small child.
And 20 years after I told them, their horribly cruel hatred and choice words for me stand, but thankfully as an adult I no longer have to suffer them sending me to conversion therapy and even having two exorcisms done by Russian Orthodox priests.
Wooh, love me some queer history!
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I've never claimed to be particularly knowledgeable of the LGBT+ communities culture or what they go through. But I've never understood why anyone else gives a damn what gender an individual loves or if the way they present themselves matches their birth certificate. I always say to bigots "i thought this was a free country?" It may be the last day of the month but it still counts, Happy pride month!!
Where is her son now? Odd to make him so central to the story only to leave that out, unless I missed something.
That grill should’ve been filled with veggies.. looking like pulled pork yourself is NOT A CUTE LOOK! Also, think about those innocent sentient beings you’re slaughtering, just so you can “be happy”