AOC suggestion to rename Queens post office
angers LGBTQ leaders
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/20/2022 8:02:58 PM
A proposal by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to consider renaming a Queens post office that honors LGBTQ rights pioneers is sparking outrage among local activists. Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens, Bronx) is soliciting suggestions for the Jeanne and Jules Manford Post Office Building in Jackson Heights, a representative for the congresswoman’s office told Community Board 3 in Queens last week. Jeanne Manford is considered to have been the first parent to march with their child in an LGBTQ parade a half century ago.(Snip)The renaming idea began with a community suggestion to honor the late LGBTQ activist Lorena Borjas, according to Hitt. “You don’t take one pioneer of the LGBT movement
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What trumps a Jewish LGBTQ rights pioneer with a gay son? Obviously, a transgender Mexican-American immigrant rights activist, hailed as the mother of the burgeoning transgender Latinx community in Queens. Out with the old, in with the new.