LGBTQ+ Family Group Breaks With Topless Trans Activist
Newsweek on Tuesday.On Saturday, President Joe Biden hosted hundreds of guests at the White House for a picnic celebrating Pride Month.
Among the attendees was transgender influencer and activist Rose Montoya, who posted an Instagram video of herself going topless at the event—a decision that sparked outrage from both conservatives and pro-LGBTQ+ groups."The White House Pride Celebration was focused on families and children," Stevenson said. "It was an afternoon filled with joy and hope and this clip is a distraction from the lifesaving work the LGBTQ+ community needs to secure and the very real issues our community is experiencing right now."Stevenson is the first Black CEO of Family Equality, a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance equality for LGBTQ+ Americans to ensure those individuals have "the freedom to find, form, and sustain a family," according to th group's website.On Tuesday, the White House announced that Montoya would not be invited back for any future events, calling her behavior "inappropriate and disrespectful for any event at the White House" and "not reflective of the event we hosted."In a second video, Montoya defended going topless at the Pride picnic but her comments were flooded by users who were concerned her actions "gave the conservatives more ammo to go after the rest of the LGBTQ+ community].""No, rose.
It's giving obtuse. Poor judgment, extreme lack of awareness or concern for how this action would affect the lgbtq+ community at-large.
You sound like insurrectionists who also didn't understand where they were on jan6," one user wrote."It would be inappropriate for any person to take their shirt off at an official White House event.
