This comes at the end of a year that has seen a significant increase in violence toward transgender and gender non-conforming people throughout the United States.
Organizers Qween Jean and Gia Love call for Bushwick to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the LGBTQ+ community. If you say "BLM" and do not support the queer Black community, then you are not for liberation, Qween said.
Plans for the rally were prompted by a stabbing and robbery in a Bushwick bodega early Saturday morning, which NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is currently investigating.
