S.A.I.D. Archive #2: [VIDEO] Legendary Trans Artist Donna Personna "Gravely Disappointed" by SF City Officials Making Light of Racist & Transphobic Police Violence re: #DropTheGene Compton's Cafeteria Riots; Feels "Betrayed" by Undemocratic Community Leadership

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  VIDEO INTERVIEW:  Revis-i-Story of State Violence 
    RE: Donna Personna Talks 'Turk & Taylor' Controversy  
 -   WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf8Mzu6LbxA 
   
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   DETAILS via  T F M  News:
   -  Article below written 8/4/16 - Interview Filmed 7/16/16

"On July 16th, directly following the Tenderloin Museum's One Year Anniversary Celebration, I interviewed trans pioneer and artist Donna Personna (she was in SF during Compton Cafeteria Riots) about San Francisco city's unbelievable whitewashing of Compton Cafeteria Riot's legacy.  

During the recent post-Trans March ceremony on June 24, 2016 the city renamed the intersection of Turk and Taylor 'Gene Compton Cafeteria Way' instead of  'Compton Cafeteria Riots Way' as Donna and others voted on, and what the community assumed it was being renamed as.

So not only has 'Riots' been whitewashed out, the name of an accomplice of police brutality has been snuck in. Gene Compton, the cafeteria owner who conspired with the violent law enforcement, should not be honored, the people's resistance against transphobia, homophobia and racist and sexist state violence should be. ~ A" 

#DropTheGene #DropTheG #DropPoliceBrutality

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S.A.I.D. Archive #1 [VIDEO]: "Stonewall Veteran, Trans Pioneer Miss Major Exposes Stonewall History's Trans Erasure & Whitewashing by Non-POC Gay Inc." - via Trans Forming Media

VIDEO ~ TFM Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcIR8UltWLs 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2010: Spirited, unstoppable and inspiring trans leader Miss Major is interviewed by journalist Ashley Love for Trans Forming Media (TFM), a trans* progressive national news source, where Miss Major recounts her experiences as one of the protesters who helped initiate the world shattering Stonewall Riots of 1969.

TODAY: Miss Major eventually moved to San Francisco where she founded TGI Justice Project, a trans human rights group. Beloved trans elder and noted racial justice leader  Janetta Johnson (Major's chosen daughter) now serves as TGIJP's Exec. Director.

Currently Major is on tour promoting the new film 'Major', a documentary detailing her remarkable life, aspirations and  unwavering dedication towards empowering trans  women in Sisterhood, Safety, Spirit, Solidarity and Social Justice that  Serves the most vulnerable 

Major has inspired a warm and cozy home in Oakland, CA, frequently visited by chosen family, friends and trans/ally community 

Miss Major & Ashley Love @ Plummer Park, West Hollywood, CA

Segment Description:

Stonewall icon Miss Major was inside the Stonewall Inn that fateful night in 1969 that sparked New York's explosive riots against police brutality. This personal interview features one of Miss Major's first times on film candidly speaking out against Gay Inc.'s aggressive whitewashing of the Stonewall Rebellion. 

A living legend with a heart of 'going any distance' to uplift community, Miss Major has arguably been the leading force in exposing the spider web of lies spun by the gay patriarchal establishment's sinister revisionism to appropriate the revolutionary legacy of Black and Brown transgender, transsexual and gender non-conforming freedom fighters.  

Though Whitewashed, Inc.'s propaganda machine was  fiercely orchestrated, well funded and widely distributed, the attempt to erase from social and historical consciousness the courageous actions taken by besieged trans* women, GNC and LGBQ folks of color in self-defense against the state fueled police brutality in all it's ugly, transphobic, racist, misogynistic and micro-aggressive forms ultimately FAILED. #ByeFred

...and...Miss Major is STILL HERE!

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Source: www.TransFormingMedia.blogspot.com 

Date: Interview uploaded on 9-14-2010

Location: Filmed in Brooklyn, NYC during Fall '10

To see 'Major' film: http://www.missmajorfilm.com/

California History Professor Jennifer Thompson's Statement Opposing SF Board of Supervisors Whitewashing The 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot's Legacy

Professor Jennifer Thompson, PhD

Jennifer Thompson teaches history at Cal State Fullerton (with a focus on African studies,) and is openly trans - making her one of the only Black women to be both openly trans and a professor at a university in the country. As a native and current resident of California she's also particularly interested in California's trans and LGBQ of color history, so it's understandable why she's extremely disappointed with the recent development concerning San Francisco's elected officials making light of the racist, transphobic and homophobic police brutality that led to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot of 1966 in San Francisco, California (three years before Stonewall), the same year the Black Panthers were founded and at a moment that should be honored, not 'whitewashed'.

Last summer Professor Thompson helped lead efforts to call out the 'Stonewall' film's whitewashing, history revisionism, trans-minimizing and racism by presenting a historical lecture during Stonewalling Accurate & Inclusive Depiction's (SAID) education rally which was held outside Warner Brothers Studio near Hollywood (film's distributor) .

Today she released the following statement to be published on SAID's website which opposed the San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unbelievable renaming of the intersection of Turk and Taylor after an accomplice of police brutality - rather than after the actual resistance and riots that protested SFPD's hateful violence against trans, LGBQ, poor, homeless, Black and/or Brown residents of San Francisco.

Here is her statement:

With the recent passage of a measure to rename part of Taylor Street "Gene Compton Cafeteria Way," the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has, in one fell swoop, erased the historical struggles and activism of the local trans and queer communities in 1966 and honored an individual who caused grievous harm to trans and queer people, alike.

Led by trans women, gender variant people, drag queens and gay people, the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot of August 1966 came about because trans and queer people rose up against racist and transphobic police brutality, legal discrimination and the intolerance of Gene Compton - the white male owner of the cafeteria who called the police on peaceful persons trying to live authentically, therefore inciting state violence.

The activism at Compton’s Cafeteria anticipated the Stonewall Uprising of June 1969. I urge the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to rescind the recently passed ordinance, and honor trans people and their history by replacing the name "Gene Compton Cafeteria Way" with "Compton's Cafeteria Riots Way. Thank you! - Jennifer Thompson

Jennifer Thompson, PhD

Lecturer of History

California State University, Fullerton
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From Trans Forming Media www.TransFormingMedia.blogspot.com:

"Trans Icon Donna Personna "Betrayed, Disappointed" by SF City Whitewashing Compton's Cafeteria Riot" http://transformingmedia.blogspot.com/2016/08/video-trans-icon-donna-personna.html

VIDEO: Iconic Trans Pioneer Donna Personna's Testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf8Mzu6LbxA&feature=youtu.be

From Trans Forming Media's Ashley Love:

On July 16th, directly following the Tenderloin Museum's One Year Anniversary celebration, I interviewed trans pioneer and artist Donna Personna (she was in SF during Compton Cafeteria Riots) about San Francisco city's unbelievable whitewashing of Compton Cafeteria Riot's legacy.

During the recent post-Trans March ceremony on June 24, 2016 the city renamed the intersection of Turk and Taylor 'Gene Compton Cafeteria Way' instead of  'Compton Cafeteria Riots Way' as Donna and others voted on, and what the community assumed it was being renamed as.

So not only has 'Riots' been whitewashed out, the name of an accomplice of police brutality has been snuck in. Gene Compton, the cafeteria owner who conspired with the violent law enforcement, should not be honored, the people's resistance against transphobia, homophobia and racist and sexist state violence should be.
#DropTheGene #DropTheG #DropPoliceBrutality
 

#NotYourProp: An Education Rally - Sept. 24th – (The real Stonewall Riots weren't Roland Emmerich's & Jon Robin Biatz's whitewashed and classist fiction, it was a rebellion against transphobia and police brutality)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

#NotYourProp: An Education Rally

WHEN: September 24^th - 6:30pm to 8:30pm

 

WHAT: Stonewalling Accurate & Inclusive Depictions, or SAID, hosts ‘#NotYourProp: An Education Rally’, to be held outside the historical Stonewall Inn on the eve of the highly disputed ‘Stonewall’ film’s premiere and will bring together professors, historians, noted advocates and community leaders to #Educate, #Enlighten and #Empower.

WHERE: The Stonewall Inn 53 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014 (outside building)

CONTACT: Media inquiries or more info: ActualSAID@gmail.com   

S.A.I.D.’s website: www.1969SAID.blogspot.com

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In a recent New York Times interview, journalist and S.A.I.D. coordinator Ashley Love said, “Seeing the film in its entirety was disappointing in how once again white gay men reduce trans women of color down to historical, social and political props, further highlighting issues of classism, trans-misogyny, anti-blackness, Hollywood trans-face casting, misgendering, identity appropriation and transparent propaganda.”

Scheduled rally speaker Octavia Lewis, Education Specialist for Transgender Programming at New York’s Hentrick Martin Institute, writes, “We’ll no longer allow the gay patriarchy to edit out trans women and lesbians of color from history or belittle our resistance just to retain their white male privilege."


June 4th, 2015 - Octavia Lewis (left), Eunic Ortiz, Stonewall Democrats NYC President (right). Lewis accepting award for SDNYC during Stonewall Democrat NYC's Annual Event

Also speaking at Thursday’s history presentation, educator and Black Lives Matter NYC organizer Aaryn Lang writes, "Marginalizing trans women of color in the Stonewall movie is part of an age old Hollywood tradition of whitewashing history to further separate marginalized people from the truth of their existence in this country. We have been, and continue to fuel this movement."


August 25, 2015 - Aaryn Lang on MSNBC discussing male violence against Black trans women

On September 22^nd Vanity Fair published a scathing film review of the Stonewall entitled ‘Stonewall Is Terribly Offensive, and Offensively Terrible’ in which writer Richard Lawson notes, “Turns out, Stonewall is perhaps even worse than some feared it would be—more offensive, more white-washed, even more hackishly made… Stonewall at least does that bit of good: it illustrates how systems of privilege and prejudice within a minority can be just as pervasive and ugly as anything imposed from the outside. And that’s an outrage. So how long until someone throws a brick through the screen?”

More background: Director/producer Roland Emmerich and screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz, both white gay men, have crafted such an inaccurate depiction of the 1969 Rebellion against police brutality and transphobia that it supersedes what both men excuse as mere “fiction” to what scholars and credible sources deem as historical revisionism due to the film's whitewashing, trans-minimizing, bi-erasure and gay-washing.

Furthermore, transsexual feminists have condemned Emmerich’s ‘Hollywood trans-face casting’, a commonly used term for the stigmatizing and humiliating industry practice of non-trans directors hiring male actors to play trans* woman roles. This miscasting only reinforces institutionalized misgendering, which is a form of trans-misogynistic gender mockery.

Affirming Her True Story, Not His Revisionist Glory: An Education Rally

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Affirming Her True Story, Not His Revisionist Glory: An Education Rally

August 27^th 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Warner Brothers Studios, 3400 W. Riverside Dr., Burbank, Ca. 91505 (Edu-Rally held outside building)

Stonewalling Accurate & Inclusive Depictions, or SAID, hosts an education rally regarding the highly disputed ‘Stonewall’ film. Professors, historians, noted advocates and community leaders are scheduled to speak and will convene outside Warner Brothers Studios (distributor of film) to educate on Stonewall’s actual history. (Speaker list below).

Director/producer Roland Emmerich and screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz, both white gay men, have crafted such an inaccurate depiction of the 1969 Rebellion against police brutality and transphobia that it supersedes what both men excuse as mere “fiction” to what scholars and credible sources deem as historical revisionism due to the film's whitewashing, trans-erasure and gay-washing. Furthermore, transsexual feminists have condemned Emmerich’s ‘Hollywood trans-face casting’, a commonly used term for the stigmatizing and humiliating industry practice of non-trans directors hiring male actors to play trans* woman roles. This miscasting only reinforces institutionalized misgendering, which is a form of trans-misogynistic gender mockery.

*Educators, advocates and community members wanting to speak during the education presentation are welcome to email S.A.I.D. below.

CONTACT: ActualSAID@gmal.com    

Website: www.1969SAID.blogspot.com

 Scheduled Speakers

Professor Jennifer Thompson, Ph.D. - CSUF History Dept., Black trans woman, historian of African studies

Dr. Marie Cartier, CSU Northridge (Gender & Women's Studies), historian, openly lesbian author

Ashley Love, journalist, S.A.I.D. organizer, Black Trans* Women’s Lives Matter coordinator, transsexual/intersex advocate

Rachel Rose Luckey, Stonewall Democratic Club, Chair of Transgender Community Issues

Eli Erlick, Director of Trans Student Educational Resources, trans woman

Jennicet Eva Gutierrez, Familia: Trans QLM co-founder, Latina trans woman (made headlines this summer after interjecting President Obama’s White House speech to decry the violence faced by detained Latina trans* women)

Jonel Hudson, former MTV Networks employee, Black trans woman, artist

Faith Cheltenham, BiNet USA President

August 27 Education Rally re: 'Stonewall' Film - Affirming Her True Story, Not His Revisionist Glory

Louisiana Trans Advocates' President Elizabeth Jenkins and Equality Louisiana Oppose the "altering, hijacking and editing" of Stonewall History; Calls For More Trans Representation on State and National Boards

 

 

Elizabeth Jenkins, President of Louisiana Trans Advocates

 

Last week Equality Louisiana posted a letter on their website from Elizabeth Jenkins, President of Louisiana Trans Advocates where she criticizes the misrepresentation and trans-erasure of Stonewall history, using SAID organizer Ashley Love's Huffington Politics article regarding Sylvia Rivera. Jenkins also calls for more trans representation on state and national non-profit boards.

Jenkins writes,

"Ashley Love wrote the following on July 6, 2010, about Stonewall and Sylvia Rivera and how the Stonewall story has been altered, essentially hijacked and edited to disregard the transgender community – especially trans people of color. I was dismayed when I first read it. Unfortunately, I found it to be true.

Today’s Louisiana LGBT advocacy and support groups have pledged to put an end to the all too common disregard for the transgender community. Well, most have. There is still a faction in New Orleans, LA, that will not yield to the lessons of history, and although they publicly state their actions are inclusive of transgender people, there is not a single trans person on any of their three boards – the 501(c)3, 501(c)4, or the Political Action Committee. Also, on the national level we still have to put pressure on the Human Rights Campaign to ensure the inclusion of our community."

Read Jenkins' full letter:
http://equalityla.org/transgender-people-are-in-the-front-lines-of-the-movement/