What does visibility mean in the following context?
"The Trans/Inter Committee: welcomes, advises and guides trans, non-binary and intersex people, people questioning their gender identity and their families. It campaigns to defend the rights of trans, non-binary and intersex people. And it promotes the visibility and acceptance of trans, non-binary and intersex people in society."
Patrons in this paragraph?
"The Stonewall riots were a series of protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. Patrons of the Stonewall, other Village lesbian and gay bars, and neighborhood street people fought back when the police became violent. The riots are widely considered as the watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the twentieth-century fight for LGBT rights in the United States."
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Visibility is the opposite of erasure (another word you might see in this context). The idea is that due to the status quo in society, only certain types of people are assumed to exist or are represented in daily life. Trans visibility here could refer to a lot of things such as acknowledging that our identities are more complicated that “you are a boy/you are a girl” or even increasing trans representation in the media (including representing a diverse range of people, not just stereotypes)
Patrons is the usual sense of the word, that is, people that ate/drank at The Stonewall (a bar)
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of course!