Today’s VAAC Friday Community Meeting, From Civil Rights to Voting Rights: Democracy and LGBTQ+ Communities, will feature Roland Leggett of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters and A. Nzere Kwabena of LGBT Detroit. The Pride Month conversation will focus on LGBTQ+ rights, civil rights, voting rights, democracy, Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, and current challenges facing LGBTQ+ communities.
Let me explain what these words and identities mean. I will start with Non Binary because it is the most well known. Non Binary = any gender identity that does not fit exclusivley in the box of Male Or Female. This can mean someone who is Non Binary can be a mix of male or female , neither , partially male or female and something else or completely beyond the binary.