Queers Attack Gays and Lesbians. It’s about time.
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On Saturday night/Sunday morning, while members of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Fund listened to President Obama make another series of promises about “gays in the military” and “gay marriage” the HRC headquarters was defaced.
With black and pink paint and glitter. An act now known as “glamdalism.”
Here is part of the message from the groups of radical queers who perpetrated this act:
Communique from the Forgotton:
The HRC is not a democratic or inclusive institution, especially for the people who they claim to represent. Just like society today, the HRC is run by a few wealthy elites who are in bed with corporate sponsors who proliferate militarism, heteronormativity, and capitalist exploitation. The sweatshops (Nike), war crimes (Lockheed Martin), assaults on working class people (Bank of America, Deloitte, Chase Bank, Citi Group, Wachovia Bank) and patriarchy (American Apparel) caused by their sponsors is a hypocrisy for an organization with “human rights†in their name.The queer liberation movement has been misrepresented and co-opted by the HRC. The HRC marginalizes us into a limited struggle for aspiring homosexual elites to regain the privilege that they’ve lost and climb the social ladder towards becoming bourgeoisie.
Last night, Obama spoke at the HRC fundraising gala and currently the HRC website declares, “President Obama underlines his unwavering support for LGBT Americans.†The vast amount of organizing resources the HRC wastes on their false alliance with the Democratic party leaves radical queers on the margins to fend for themselves. Our struggle has always had to resist the repression of conservative tendencies in government and society to gain liberation in our lives.
The gourmet affair was sponsored by 48 corporations including giants Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, and Wachovia Bank. At $250 dollars a plate the HRC served our movement a rich, white, heternormative atmosphere that purposefully excludes working class queer folks.
REMEMBER THE STONEWALL RIOTS! .
Most of all we disagree that collective liberation will be granted by the state or its institutions like prisons, marriage, and the military. We need to escalate our struggle, or it will collapse.
~~Love and Solidarity~~
HRC Building Vandalized – Lez Get Real.
I am going to go out on a limb and say this is a good thing. It’s true that “gay liberation” has always had its assimilationist tendencies and its more radical and even separatist elements. There were people like the lesbian separatists and the Radical Fairies trying to reject mainstream society – and build alliances with other oppressed groups– and nice homosexuals who wanted nothing more than to be left alone. But it used to be the national press was far more interested in the radical elements- the men in nothing but jockstraps and fairy wings, the radical dykes with crew cuts and tattoos.
As the national press became both less homophobic and more populated with out gays and lesbians, it began to clean up the “image” of sexual “minorities”- reducing them all to nice, middle class gays and lesbians who want nothing more than a minivan and 2 children and a golden retriever.
As this reduction of sexual difference to “just like other nice families, only two moms or two dads” and “just like any other soldier, just gay” happened at the level of national coverage, it also happened to a lot of gay activism. Money got taken away from shelters for homeless queer youth and given to same sex marriage movements. The Human Rights Campaign fund sold transgender allies down the river to try and get protection of gender normative gays and lesbians.
But the queers are still out there- making connections between homophobia and patriarchy and racism and capitalism. They still think that liberation is not serving in an imperialist army nor the mimicry of the heterosexual bourgeoisie in marriage.
You can hate queers and wish they’d shut up, like the HRC probably does. Or you can love queers and wish more of them would glamdalize the dreary world of freedom= being just like everyone else, like I do.
But when queers make themselves visible by exploding glitter grenades, you can no longer ignore them.
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It is a good thing Laurie, this really shows just how mainstream the movement has become. Once going mainstream you need a radical element to push and prod or else rigor mortis sets in. Our extremist just have a greater sense of style about it, unlike the crowds who show up for whatever G(fill in your own number) summit. Besides tear gas makes your mascara run!
I only agree with them partly. Just because they don’t like that money was taken away from a youth shelter doesn’t mean that we should stop fighting for equal marriage rights. The fact is, is that people get benefits out of marriage, if a society allows that then they should allow it for every citizen, and I’m not saying that I support marriage over a youth shelter other rights, I think we should be fighting for them all. Has anyone ever heard of multi-tasking? Simple, people can have several issues that are important to them, but because there are so many issues people can’t always give or support all of them. Some people are complacent on issues, and I’ve never hear of this group until now, where have you been? I also feel that many youth today take things for granted, they may be pissed off because the money was taken away from the youth shelter to help fight for marriage rights, but there are problems with the youth shelters today. Youth shelters should only be temporary not permanent. In San Diego, their is a shelter that is ridden with drugs, and some of the clients have been their for years, and that isn’t’ appropriate, and that’s why these place lose funding because of issues like that. It’s not really that they took the money away to give it for marriage equality fights, it’s just that they lost funding because it was a messed up place with drug ridden teens.
I’m all for fighting for many issues, and I don’t like the idea of ignoring one right more than others, but people need to speak out, their not, and maybe that is why Marriage Equality fight has taken a precedence over some.
The ones who are tired of not having those marriage rights when everyone else is getting them, are the same people who have been fighting for youth rights for more than 30 years because they to were once part of that youth community.
Have YOU forgotten about stone wall? Many of those people fighting for Marriage Equality have not, and they have been with their partners for more than 30 years waiting for the right to have Marriage Equality before they die, before they get older, time is running out for them, but the youth in the community have their time to play with Marriage Equality, they have the time to wait, but others are tired of waiting, and they want that right now, IT is just as important as other issues.
I’m not sure why the HRC doesn’t hand other issues, but like I said some Youth Shelters need to be cleaned up before they can get any funding.
I’m tired of hearing these younger people say that Marriage is not important when we have other civil rights issues, they are ALL important, it’s just that some have been pushed into the media as a result of religious right propositions that attack these rights! Should we sit around and ignore those issues, and let them make law after law attacking the community.
We’ve come a long way in the past 30 years, and I think these youth should at least have some gratitude for what they have this far.
Are they straight on the outside and gay on the inside or gay on the outside and straight on the inside? I do NOT understand queers who embrace the very social values that long “nigrified” them. Will we soon have a society for gays that pass and a society for gays that don’t pass?
brian actually they are the same crowds who show up for whatever G (fill in your own number)
the most windows broken and property destruction were done during the queer “bash back” march at this past g20.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc1IGqlekvs
brian actually they are the same crowds who show up for whatever G (fill in your own number)
the most windows broken and property destruction were done during the queer “bash back” march at this past g20.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc1IGqlekvs
NO SERIOUSLY I AM A RADIQUEER AND I KNOW THIS HAPPENED! I’M NOT JUST BEING REACTIONARY
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