“The safety of every single member of our community must be our priority. “There are people asking why they should get involved because they think they’re going to be okay - because they are cis, because they are white, because they are well-to-do. Let me tell you, friends, there is no security in complacency…. Like the damn superheroes who came before us.
“And we can’t just turn on the bat signal and wait to be rescued. “I will say it again: we are at Code Red.
She urged LGBTQ people and those who profess to be their allies to be more proactive by speaking up publicly against efforts to rescind protections for LGBTQ individuals or roll back hard-won rights.
