This is not the movement of our grandparents or even our parents. While many in the Baby Boomer generation were concerned with respectability in their politics, our generation is primarily concerned with liberation for all — even those of us who are considered “unrespectable.”

The Black Youth Project and BYP100 came together to highlight what this movement looks like, why it must include and empower LGBTQ rights, and discuss what it means to center the most marginalized among us. 

Watch young people across the movement explain how we work together to “get free”:

 

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