'...there’s still a huge chunk of the population who have trouble accessing Pride events and LGBTQ safe spaces: disabled queer people.'
more vitally important [for them] to become accessible first than anywhere else. If they showed some effort in this area, disabled people would feel like they had a place to go to be safe.”Gurza experienced discrimination similar to Zelvin’s when a camera crew filmed him outside a gay bar for, a 2018 documentary about disability and sexuality. Footage not used in the film’s final cut shows Gurza sitting in his powerchair, looking longingly at the flight of stairs—the only way in.
All too often, those of us who are disabled have to decide if demanding our right to access will be viewed as a reasonable call for equity or as an entitled request for privileges that nondisabled people consider beyond necessity. Sometimes it feels easier to go along to get along, particularly if you’re already the center of attention by virtue of being disabled and therefore perceived as “different.
Zelvin’s experience ultimately led Stonewall’s staff to hold a service-animal and disability-access training event. “The lack of knowledge many businesses have about ADA laws and, in particular, guide and service dogs, was brought to our attention when members of our own staff made an error in judgment,” says Stonewall Inn co-owner Stacy Lentz.
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