Good evening and thank you for spending tonight with us. My name is Imani Rupert-Gordon, my pronouns are she/her/hers and I am honored to be the new executive director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
I’m thrilled to be here. And I want to acknowledge that my heart is in Minneapolis right now, so I want to start with a message to the folks who are a part of the uprising that has spent the last several days demanding justice for George Floyd and for countless black citizens across this country who have been victims of state-sanctioned violence.
This week, the president of the United States called you thugs. That’s what he sees. But that’s not what I see. Throughout the history of this country, black people have been subjected