Myanmar’s Pro-democracy Protests Are Giving A Voice To Lgbtq+ People

Sue Sha Shin Thant, a transgender woman, has experienced a lifetime of discrimination and social exclusion in Myanmar, where LGBTQ+ people have no recognized rights or protections and the only words used to describe them in their own language are derogatory. Now, the Mandalay-based activist is among thousands of LGBTQ+ people marching under rainbow flags as they join mass protests against dictatorship. Millions of people, according to some estimates, have demonstrated since Myanmar’s generals seized power on Feb.

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