Bash Back! DC Confronts HRC Assimilation and Transphobia
Radical queers and trannies descended upon the forces of gay assimilation today at the convention center where the HRC’s annual fundraising dinner was held. At $250/plate, we sex workers, genderfuckers, transfolk, queers of color, and allies certainly had no place at the hrc’s table, so we had our own party outside, one in which everyone was welcome rather than only white ritzy-looking upper class cisgendered men. While it seems that many dinner-goers this year were supportive of trans rights (or least willing to give token support), attendees were more than a little unsure about the place of working class and queers of color. One woman even said that marriage rights were the “last step towards gaining full equality in American society.” Maybe that’s so for the kind of folks that can afford this dinner, but for queer street kids getting kicked out of gay neighborhoods and queers of color being denied community resources, liberation can’t be obtained through the marriage lobby.Assimilation will not save us, it will only end in the decimation of our community. Society must change to accommodate us, queers and transfolk must refuse assimilation and cultural erasure at the hands of the homonormative gay elite and build a world where we can liberate ourselves.
For dance parties amidst the ruins,
dandee lyon of bb!dc
PS Isis’s fabulous pics:
www.flickr.com/photos/isisdc/sets/72157607741466482
More Coverage:
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/144357/index.php
Contact:
bashbackdc@riseup.net
1 comment
Way to Go! Thanks dan d lion and Isis for giving us the scoop. Everyone looked fabulous!
UGH on those rich white gays they sure are funny looking. They got funny ideas too.
Queers Without Borders will be going up to Boston Oct. 25 to protest against HRC there. Can't wait.
Love you all
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