Pride On The Sidewalk
This is my second action project for my humanities course, Global Peace. For this project we were tasked with picking an issue to act on through a form of peaceful protest. The paper and presentation below is the summation of my research, my action and my purpose. Pride Flag, Wikicommons (2005) In today's world, young LGBT people feel alone. The lack of representation and recognition in the media and minimal at best protections from discrimination. A few small steps have been made towards addressing systematic oppression, but not much has been done to address what is known as cultural violence. Cultural violence is the unspoken stigma of a community or society that can establish, normalize and justify oppression. It is part of the bedrock that sparks direct violence, a specific incidence or an act harming a person or group of people. Direct violence targeting the LGBT community is a norm hardly ever addressed by the traditional mainstream news outlets. This complete disregar