At the Biden administration’s wokest agency, Pride Month is bleeding into July. Just this week, the United States Department of the Inter...
At the Biden administration’s wokest agency, Pride Month is bleeding into July.
Just this week, the United States Department of the Interior hosted an event celebrating a radical transgender activist named Sylvia Rivera, the cofounder of a group called the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.
The event, titled “Pride Month Program Highlighting Sylvia Rivera, Pioneer and Civil Rights Advocate for the LGBTQI+ Community,” took place on July 10 and sought to celebrate the life of the transgender activist.
“The Bureau of Trust Funds Administration will host a virtual Pride Month Program on the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Sylvia Rivera, a Latina American drag queen, was a pioneer and trailblazer civil rights advocate for the LGBTQI+ community in the 1960’s and 70’s,” an internal agency newsletter obtained by The Daily Wire reads. “She was well known for participating in the Stonewall uprising of 1969 in New York City and co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, a group dedicated to helping homeless and young drag queens, gay youth and trans women,” the email from the federal agency went on to read.
A series of Daily Wire investigations previously revealed that the Interior is perhaps the single furthest Left agency in the federal government. The agency celebrated “Transgender Day of Visibility” in April with a screening of a documentary about LGBT inclusion in the field of marine biology. “After realizing the lack of LGBTQ+ visibility in marine science led her to abandon her childhood dream, Nicole Morris decided to re-route her life path to try and become a marine biologist, to conserve endangered rays,” a film description reads.
The event was held in conjunction with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a legal activist organization that “works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence.”
The New York-based organization advocates for “trans liberation” and has organized activist campaigns against the construction of jails, and in favor of increased access to so-called “gender-affirming healthcare” that attempts to change an individual’s sex through medical interventions.
“Rivera had a diverse and complex background: She was poor, trans, a drag queen, a person of color, a former sex worker, and someone who also experienced drug addiction, incarceration and homelessness,” a biography of Rivera on DePaul University’s website reads. “By age 11, she ran away from home and became a child prostitute, working in the Times Square area. While living on the streets, Rivera met a group of drag queens who welcomed her into their fold, and it was with their support she became ‘Sylvia,’ and identified as a drag queen.”
One former Interior official who now works for the Biden White House was revealed to have a troubling social media history. Tyler Cherry, the former communications director at Interior, called for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and claimed that “the modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols.”
The Department of the Interior also hosted an “ally awards” ceremony where bureaucrats performed a “diversity poem reading,” Daily Wire host Matt Walsh revealed. “Don’t exclude me due to a lack of knowledge. Welcome me like the recruit fresh out of college,” one line of the poem says. “Let me take a seat at the table, even though I may be differently able.”
“I’m diversity, embrace me and we’ll journey far. I’m diversity, include me and we’ll reach the shining star,” the poem went on to say.
The agency also has a number of different identity-based employee resource groups, and organizations within federal agencies that commonly push for diversity, equity, and inclusion policies or celebrations within the federal government.
Neither the Department of the Interior nor the Sylvia Rivera Law Project responded to requests for comment.
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