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LGBT+ marches from London to New York call for end to racism

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George Floyd, 46, in police custody in the United States on 25 May.Many LGBT+ groups released statements in support of protests after Floyd’s death, pointing out the radical origins of the LGBT+ rights movement at the Stonewall Inn in New York 51 years ago that emerged to fight police brutality.“As a queer person myself, I face racism from the queer community - and it’s time we stamped it out,” Patrick King told the Thomson Reuters Foundation as he marched along one of central London’s main thoroughfares with car horns blaring.

London’s Black Trans Lives Matter march was one of several events planned this weekend to support Black Lives Matter.With the debate over systemic racism also hitting LGBT+ businesses this month, Gay dating apps.

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