"Amid the joy of LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations, hundreds of people turned out Sunday to call attention to a serious topic – attacks on the Black transgender community.
At the second Drag March for Change, people marched along Halsted Street from Belmont Avenue north to Grace Street and Broadway – the heart of the Northalsted LGBTQ nightlife and cultural district in East Lakeview. They called for an end to police brutality against members of the trans community.
...The group is calling for the City Council to defund the Chicago Police Department by 75 percent and move the funding to social services and community programs, a ban on police officers from marching in Pride festivities, and the 'abolishment of the system' under which George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade were killed by police. McDade was a Black transgender man who was shot and killed by police in Tallahassee in March 2020."
