Unzueta primarily focused on her grassroots activism, such as her involvement in organizing the annual Dyke March and her work around immigration rights and GLBT issues. While the mainstream GLBT movement is very involved in marriage equality, she said, not all people agree that it is the most important issue, an opinion that was echoed by a few audience members in a Q&A session that followed.
“A lot of young queer people I work with don’t identify with the mainstream GLBT movement,” Unzueta said, stressing that it is important for local GLBT activists to remember that “LGBTQ people are part of other movements,” such as racial equality, universal healthcare, immigration rights, gender equality and other issues. “We are all affected by multiple forms of oppression,” she added. “We need to do a better job thinking of social justice issues as queer issues.”
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