Addresing White privilege in the GLBT community

White privilege in the GLBT community will be the topic of a presentation on Thursday, October 6, at the CHUN mansion located at 1290 Williams Street in Denver. Free and open to the public, the presentation is sponsored by the Denver chapter of PFLAG for the organization’s program held quarterly each year. In light of recent murders of people of color in the U.S., the goal of the Denver PFLAG program is to help white individuals identify their white privilege and how they can become allies to communities of color. 

The GLBT community has come under scrutiny for “whitewashing” tragic events such as the Orlando massacre, as well as historically neglecting the voices of GLBT people of color. Mia Furtado, a PFLAG board member and social-justice advocate, will present definitions of “privilege” and explain how this applies to the white population and how white individuals can become aware of their innate privilege so that they do not directly and/or indirectly pass on their ignorance and prejudice.

Time and time again from the 1980s through the present, Denver PFLAG has been at the forefront of connecting the dots between GLBT and other social-justice causes. Many of Denver PFLAG activists, such as Tim Wilson and John Ferguson, have been longtime anti-racism activists and longtime allies of La Gente Unida. - via La Gente Unida