Zohran Mamdani: “In the 1970s, homeless queer New Yorkers had been pushed to…”

“I've had this name for nine years. This is respect. I'm on the Christopher Street Pier, or, as it was called in Sylvia Rivera's day, the Christopher street docks. In the 1970s, homeless queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of a hostile society. But it was here, on the physical margins of our city, that they found a home. Sylvia was one of those New Yorkers.” (00:13–00:18)

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