Protests, pandemic have refocused advocates fighting for LGBTQ rights

Mashable is celebrating Pride Month by exploring the modern LGBTQ world, from the people who make up the community to the spaces where they congregate, both online and off.

As the coronavirus pandemic first took hold of life in the U.S., LGBTQ organizations, like so many other businesses, nonprofits and advocacy organizations, quickly adapted to a world gone virtual. This meant Zoom meetings with organizing teams, and the like. (In 2020, the usual.)

Though staying “visible” online was quickly sorted out on an organizational level, since then, it’s become clear that taking to the streets to demand change is still as urgent and as viable a tactic as ever. In response to the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many other Black people, the last few weeks have seen thousands of people protesting the systemic racism entrenched in U.S. society and its policing methods since its very founding. Read more...