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A woman believed to be the owner of Boone’s Camp Event Hall in Booneville, Mississippi was recently captured on video explaining why the venue was unwilling to accommodate gay and interracial couples. “First of all, we don’t do gay weddings or mixed race — because of our Christian race, I mean, our Christian belief,” the woman says in the now-viral video. “I don’t want to argue my faith,” she says. “We just don’t participate.” The [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGuM6Fqkh3w) — which was posted by 24-year-old LaKambria Welch and first reported by the [website Deep South Voice](http://www.deepsouthvoice.com/index.php/2019/09/01/no-mixed-or-gay-couples-mississippi-wedding-venue-manager-says-on-video/) on Sunday — quickly sparked backlash, prompting an apology on the Boone’s Camp Event Hall Facebook page. (The page has since been deleted.) Welch’s original video post appears to have been deleted as well, but she [told the Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/03/mississippi-wedding-venue-rejects-interracial-couple-christian-belief-apologized/) that she traveled to the event hall to get answers after the owner told her brother, who is black, and his fiancée, who is white, that the venue could no longer accommodate their nuptials. “When she explained that she doesn’t do the two specific type of weddings, I felt myself starting to shake,” Welch told the _Post_. “Just hearing it gave me chills.” Civil rights advocates criticized the event hall for discrimination. “Religion should never be exploited as a license to discriminate,” Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a [tweet](https://twitter.com/AlphonsoDavid/status/1168912100460257280). “This incident is yet another glaring example of how white supremacy and anti-LGBTQ bigotry are not merely things of the past. We must take action against these blatantly illegal practices.” In a statement posted [on its Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/boonevillecityhall/posts/2225362900924254), the City of Booneville said city leaders “do not condone or approve these types of discriminatory policies.” In 2016, Mississippi passed a controversial law allowing businesses to refuse services to LGBTQ people based on religious objections. That means the venue’s refusal to host weddings for gay couples, based on religious beliefs, is protected by state law. But the law does not address race or ethnicity, and the landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision, [_Loving v. Virginia_](https://time.com/4362508/loving-v-virginia-personas/), made [interracial marriage legal](https://time.com/4364686/loving-day-loving-v-virginia/) across the United States. Under federal law, it’s [illegal to discriminate](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000a) on the basis of race in public accommodations. Opponents of religious-exemption laws — like Mississippi’s — have long argued they could be used to enable discrimination on the basis of race. As NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill [noted](https://twitter.com/Sifill%5FLDF/status/1168686527175647232), historical objections to interracial marriage and integration were often grounded in religious beliefs. “The conduct in this video is illegal,” Ifill said on Twitter. “A reminder that battles won long ago are being reignited.” It’s not clear whether this incident could result in legal action. In a statement provided to [the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/us/mississippi-interracial-couple-wedding.html), Boone’s Camp Event Hall said they had invited the couple back to use the venue, but Welch told the _Times_ her brother had been already contacted by many other event spaces. In the apology that briefly appeared on the Boone’s Camp Event Hall Facebook page, according to screen shots captured before it was deleted, the venue’s owner said she had studied the Bible, spoken to her pastor in recent days and learned her belief about interracial marriages was “incorrect.” “I have, for many years, stood firm on my Christian faith not knowing that biracial relationships were NEVER mentioned in The Bible!” the post said. “All of the years I had ‘assumed’ in my mind that I was correct, but have never taken the opportunity to research and find whether this was correct or incorrect until now.” “To all those offended, hurt or felt condemn by my statement I truly apologize to you for my ignorance in not knowing the truth about this,” she wrote. ## Transcript 1969. And just that was when it all changed. That was when we know that it started getting safer for us, that we wake up. Wow. That was our 1770. That was our 1776. Absolutely. Hey, everybody. Hey, thank you. Thank you all for coming today for this discussion. My name is Wilder DAVIES. I'm a reporter here at TIME. And I guess to get started off, what do you think the other generation here should know about about you or your generation of people? I think for myself, when I came into this kind of activism, I was very disdainful of the people who had come before me. I didn't know and I didn't understand their history and their struggles. And what I would like to say to the younger generation is we didn't have all the answers. We didn't do it all right. But we had a history. And you're building on that history. More power to you. But turn around and smile back at us every now and again. And give us give us a high five. We did some things right. And I'm going to hate myself for saying this, but part of why you're here able to do the work you're doing is that we did some things right in building a foundation. Yes, I think that people today don't understand the risks we took and the danger. We were often in we took a lot of risks. Mark was having a drink at the wrong time in the wrong place, and we all took this risk of losing everything in order to be with our friends. I went into that bar that evening, having only been in New York for six weeks. I thought I was the kid. Next door. That's about it. When the police came in and banged people against the wall, mostly trans people, mostly drag queens, mostly anybody who was stereotypical yelling, dike, fag, queer. I was in the back of the bar near the dance floor because that's what any 18 year old wants to do, is dance their ass off. I was scared. I was frightened. I'd never seen people being violently treated and yelled at like that before. Then when the police came a little further into the bar and started to asking people who looked successful or prosperous take out their wallet and take their money and put it in their pocket. In my head it was like, How could you treat us alone? How low do you think we are? Are we just garbage? The police, you know, taking money, stealing? What are we going to do? Call the police? They are the police. And slowly, when they slowly but surely, when they let us out of the bar and they were finally trapped in the bar. Something clicked in my head. All of a sudden I felt empowered. That little frightened boy was in that bar. Then all of a sudden felt empowered. I felt like screaming, I'm gay, you know? No more. Am I going to hide into this closet? So far, our younger crew here, are there are there any things that you want to share or communicate to your predecessors? I really my firm belief is that your generation needs to know that you have a space with us and that you all are necessary. Your existence allows us to be here, but also your existence allows us to inform our existence currently. So we need you all in those spaces. We yes, we need you all in nightclubs, protest rallies, everywhere because your existence is a restaurant. That's 2000. You know, you can show up for the happy hour or the happy hour or the happy hour. Everyone in there will see that they have something to learn. There is someone before them and life continues joyously as a queer person. We continue. On. It's really hard for the queer community or LGBT community, whatever term used to kind of refer to itself in the terminology has changed so much in the past 50 years, like. The past half hour in. The past. I get that question a lot, like on when people ask like, Well, are you using the word dike? Isn't that like offensive? And I'm like, Well, it's offensive when it's the wrong person calling me that. You know, if like a straight man comes up to me and calls me dark and I'm like, Well, buddy, we're going to stop right there. But if someone but as someone in the queer community calls me attack on like how. Yeah, like, but it's like I always like to like when when it comes to, like, reclaiming a word, I always like to think, having been called that as a child, because I was just a little different. I wore my brother's clothes. I was in a majority majorly. All boys like soccer team, you know, Everyone's like, Oh, what a what a dike. And I'm like, Don't do that. But now I'm like, in a shared space with people who are like me. And I'm like, You know what? This is an identifier. This is who I am. This is what I want to I want to reclaim this word. I want to turn it into something positive and I want to make it positive for other people, too. I want people to feel comfortable, like using that word as an identifier and not as something to, like bring up bad memories. I personally love the word queer because I feel like it's not exclusionary and I was having a conversation with someone the other day, a girl who just came out as a lesbian, but she's always been at the bars and hanging out and she just now came out and told her, like, you have always been queer. Your sexuality, you had nothing to do with you being queer, being part of our community. You were a straight girl. Now you're lesbian. Doesn't matter. You were always queer to us. And I think that's a very important part of it, is I like, you know, it also includes our allies. Queer is extremely uncomfortable for me, but I embrace you to identify anywhere you wish. One of the first things we did was say we were going to self-identify. We were going to decide who we were rather than let society decide, of course. But you said something which was, Oh, he was straight queer. Now she's a lesbian. Queer. To me, that means the queer is a political term and anybody can be queer. And therefore it doesn't define lesbian or gay. And we fought for many years to be able to use that label. That's important to us. That ends invisibility. If everybody's using queer, we're not getting anywhere. Especially with remembering Stonewall. We can't ignore the fact that, you know, our three people from the older generation here today are also white. And, you know, I kind of wanted to you guys to speak to that and cause I remember, you know, so there are reasons for that. Let me say that there were a lot of people of color in the Gay Liberation Front, but we live in a patriarchal society that is really unfair and uneven. And the trans women in particular didn't get mainstream jobs, They didn't get health care, and their lives were very difficult. And many of the people of color are dead. We need to do something about this on a larger scale because we can see this today. You know, the police can apologize as one day to the people in Stonewall and a week later a trans woman dies in a cell because she doesn't have $500 bail. So is are they going to apologize to her family 50 years later? As long as we have that kind of system, this will just go on and on and on. What's the work that needs to be done today and in the future? When you're talking about fighting for rights, you can't talk about just yourself. You have to expand what that means. You can't say that you are part of the community and exclude the trans community. If you if you're if you're saying that I'm like, are you really part of our community or are you part of yourself? You know, I think you have to like, you know, stop being selfish for just a second and. Listen, if you can look at yourself today and say you haven't done something that has helped a whole group of people, which is as easy as donating $5. There's so many different ways because at the end of the day, even showing up at the rally isn't going to get. I'm a black trans person that's not going to get me home safely at the end of the night. I'm not going to be getting home safely because of thoughts and prayers I'd like. And on top of it, at the end of the day, walking around in this place is queer spaces, all these different environments, and still finding that like queer people will match gender, me and straight people, cis people mixed into me. And so with that game, every single person has something to learn. Same thing for me. I walk around as an able bodied person who doesn't have to think about how I'm going to be getting from one location to the other. So it's people need to just realize that there is so much more that we can be doing so much more. I worry about people on the on the margins. Homeless youth and homeless elders. And particularly I'm in contact with a number of people who are in our struggle, who dedicated their whole lives to a revolution that never came and they have no resources to take care of themselves now. And we also have to remember that homosexuality is still illegal in 70 countries around the world. And we used to say is still true, that none of us is free until all of us are free. Pride has become such a you know, it's a spectacle and it's been very mainstreamed. And, you know, there you know, every corporate logo is now a rainbow. And until until July 1st. Do you all have any thoughts on like, you know, people who are guests in that space and or just about the the commercial nation of pride? I've always wanted to march in the Macy's Day Parade. You know, kind of here's here's my opportunity. I'm like, maybe I could be a big balloon. You know, the corp, the corporatization, it's amazing. My spouse and I don't live in New York anymore, but we've been here for a month. And except for a big stretch of Madison Avenue, uptown, you can't go any place without seeing rainbow. This rainbow that. And I guess the question we keep asking each other is what's behind it? What happens on July 1st when our seniors can't get housing and kids are being thrown out of their homes and women are being both trans women and sons are being murdered in the street. Have that rainbow mean something? 365 days out of the year. If anybody has any other questions or comments for, you know, each other. Thank you guys for giving me such an education and reminding me where I come from and how I got to be in a place where I am capable of just being me and being happy and also remembering the work that I have to do in my religious community, but in so many, so many communities that maybe I don't have on the top of my mind and I really should. And fighting to want to stay in all the communities. Yeah, absolutely. That's intersectionality. Yes. 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