Tonight (Tuesday 22july) at 7:30pm at the corner of Capitol Ave and Broad St, (rain location is at the Charter Oak Cultural Center) there will be a candlelight vigil for Nashawn William, a 16 year old black youth who was attacked by a gang of whites in Plainfield, CT while waiting for a school bus in October 2007.

Police are trying to close the case, with no witnesses or arrests made. Nashawn and his family have since been forced to move to
Norwich after repeated threats and taunts against them following the attack.

At this crucial time, Nashawn and his family really need all our support

Justice for Nashawn! No Police cover-up in
Plainfield! 

Me and some folks from ARRGH! and Hartford Food Not Bombs are going out tonight in support. Hope to see more folks there!!! 

-Deric

A caption from an article about the musician describes “pop songs with Perry cast as a sunnier Avril.” The comparison of Avril Lavigne and Katy Perry is right on target–both are poseurs. Avril has–in pop culture–conned younger generations into believing that dark eyeliner and angst define punk, and Katy’s current song (with a ripped off title) “I Kissed a Girl” is promoting pseudo-lesbianism as the real thing.

The song lyrics in question:

This was never the way I planned
Not my intention
I got so brave, drink in hand
Lost my discretion
It’s not what, I’m used to
Just wanna try you on
I’m curious for you
Caught my attention

I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it

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  If Queers Without Borders could fly off to San Francisco we would be there for the protest against HRC’s annual dinner. We will be there in spirit, in solidarity sending out our good vibs for justice and freedom for all. We will be in the street with the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, And Castro 4 All, SF Labor Council, Pride at Work at what these groups are calling the “Left OUT Party.” I found this information on Kelli Busey’s site  (see link for planetransgender on our side bar) and she had a link to an article from San Francisco’s Alternative Online News. The article by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca can be found here. There are many fine articles stating QWB’s position on HRC. To sum it up in a nut shell, Fuck HRC!!!

Babi Badalov has been campaigning to stay in the UK since his claim for asylum was rejected. He has been informed that he is now liable to be detained and has to sign in every week at the Border and Immigration Agency offices in Cardiff. His first signing was last Tuesday (24th June) and supporters from the campaign accompanied Babi to the BIA offices. Concern is high that he may be snatched at one of these signings so everyone was relieved to see him come out of the building, not least Babi himself.

News of the campagin has reached Azerbaijan where Babi was recently in a newspaper article that disputed Babi was an internationally renowned actor. No wonder as Babi has never claimed to be an actor and isn’t suprised that people had never heard of this actor’s name. He is however a contemporary artist that has had his work shown in many galleries throughout Europe and across the world.

This article made the fact he is homosexual known to his whole family. They have telephoned him, screamed at him, threatened him and disowned him. Babi has expressed concern for his family and the shame that this will have brought on them by having a family member that is gay, just proving how unacceptable homosexuality is in Azerbaijan. This article has raised Babi’s profile even further in Azerbaijan, resulting in letters being written to the press in his defence. Not only will this make it even harder for Babi to return if he is deported but it will also mean he has no support and family to return to if he is sent back.

We are pleading to people to continue to support Babi by either signing the online petition, getting your friends to sign it and by writing to Jacqui Smith (model letter here) and expressing your outrage at Babi’s claim being rejected. If you have already written, please write again.

See some of Babi’s work here

www.noborderswales.org.uk

In this video clip from a panel that Sylvia Rivera was on in Italy, we hear her speak in her own words to the attempts by some in the gay community who insist upon a history of the Stonewall Rebellions that totally excludes any mention of Trans folks! As Sylvia notes in this clip “She has been fighting these attitudes since June 27 1969… and that she will continue to struggle against the gay community until we all are receive our place in society as human beings and not as a different person!” Sylvia understood our struggles, understood our community and understood what we needed to do to upend a system of trans oppression! It is sad that here in the US we have not, and still don’t give Sylvia the depth of recognition, gratitude and respect that she so richly deserves. As she noted in the opening of her talk on this panel: It is sad she has to come to Italy to receive the recognition she seldom ever received in the states. Sylvia Rivera Presente.

And for a “Peoples History of Stonewall” and not the revisionist and horridly inaccurate Metroline view of Queer History, I include a great piece from David Isay heard over the Pacifica Network: “Remembering Stonewall.” Enjoy hearing about the real story of Stonewall, in THEIR own words

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I had saved this article in my archives and just recently re-read. I am posting here for others to read. Piece is by michelle o’brien

Reading Trans-Health/
Reading Race War
Trans health organizing and neocolonial capital
Michelle O’Brien, May 2003
Thanks goes out to the organizers of Philadelphia’s 2 nd Annual Trans Health
Conference, especially Jaci Adams and Rick Feeley. Gratitude to Dean Spade
for much of my analysis. And serious props to the girls working the streets,
from San Salvador to London, Bangkok to Philly.
Recently I was involved in the organizing of Philadelphia’s 2 nd Annual
Trans-Health Conference this May of 2003. Drawing about a hundred and
fifty people, the one-day free conference offered a space for transgender
people, health care providers, social service workers and trans allies to
share knowledge, develop relationships and address the ongoing
concerns of affordable, respectful and accessible healthcare for trans
communities. The small conference organizing committee reflected a
mixed, cross-racial and cross-class group of trans people and close
community allies. Several of us had worked closely together in organizing
a memorial for Nizah Morris, a trans woman murdered in Philadelphia in
December.
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The following is a reposting of a great blog article (containing much truth and passion) from a dear friend and trans activist in the movement ~ Dru (Love ya Dru!)

The time has finally come for Trans Pride. It’s been a long journey since I posted the initial email in late September calling for a march and rally. http://femulate.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html. I was interviewed yesterday by the person doing a documentary on the march. It was cathartic for me to be able to tell my story. I made it about my own journey through my own fear in this organizing process. How terrified I felt to call for visibility in the trans community - specifically in this trans community. It was interesting to deal with unchecked transphobia from the LG community - which felt like “get back in your place…or…we already include you (by having one token trans speaker at our pride - which ironically turned out to be me this year - token ‘Trans political speaker,” Noho pride); and LGB people who were not used to dealing with a trans person with self respect, who doesn’t degrade themselves around them or allow them to talk down to them in a paternalistic manner. That was a shift. It was also hard to deal with the city of Northampton… explaining to the police, Mayor’s office, DPW, why we need our own separate day and march. “You already have a march - isn’t it LGBT? - why do you need another one?” I was asked. It was shocking and uncomfortable for many to see trans people asking, rather demanding, their own day. [Read more →]

cross posting from jason’s great website blackandpink.org

This is Gael from Sylvia Rivera Law Project & Reg from Critical Resistance and Queers for Economic Justice. We’re calling out to folks interested in being part of the planning committee for a Transforming Justice East Coast regional gathering.

First, a little about Transforming Justice. Back in October 2007, Transforming Justice brought together over 200 formerly imprisoned transgender people and allies to work together to:

• Build a shared conversation and analysis among the LGBT, anti-prison, and prisoner rights movements about the root causes of imprisonment, poverty, and criminalization in transgender communities;
• Prioritize and build leadership of transgender and gender non-conforming people most impacted by prisons, poverty, and policing;
• Create space to share and develop strategies to end the cycles of imprisonment, criminalization, and poverty in our communities.

A number of participants from the Northeast region who attended the gathering Transforming Justice on October 13th & 14th in Oakland California have been talking about organizing a regional gathering similar to the national one maybe some where in New York, New Jersey or Philadelphia. [Read more →]

LGBT Asylum Seekers who are facing deportation in the United Kingdom need our help. Check out this web site, www.medhikazemi.com. Queers Without Borders join with our sisters and brothers around the world in support of our people. Please sign the International Petition.

With the recent Metroline crap still stinking I thought I would go back into my archives and tell a few of ourstories about when some of my friends and I stood up against anyone trying to revise, rewrite, ignore, omit, erase, suppress, or deny our people. Straight culture has used every trick in their book to deny our people, trying to take them from us and ignoring the fact that some of the greats of the arts and of this world were lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer persons. 

The extraordinary philosopher, movement builder, writer, folklorist, historical researcher, gay man and former communist Harry Hay in his essay, “The Hidden Ones, Christianity’s First Closet Case” seeks to reconstruct a part of our stories that have been hetrosexualized, namely the story of who were the real Adam and Eve. This important corrective reconstruction returns our people to their rightful place busts open the lies of straight societies religions and allows us to reclaim  our rightful heritage. I submit this to our readers as an essay to read and ponder to see how full of tricks the dominant culture can be. Read it and shake your heads over the oppression that has come out of that one little false story which through the political opportunism of the Christians first sculpted and then governed the guilt of Westerners for over 2,000 years. Robert Graves states in his book “Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis,” that Jehovah clearly did not figure in the original myth. As he puts it, “It is the Mother of All Living (Eve)…who casts Adam out of her fertile riverine dominion because he has usurped some prerogative of hers.” Adam the temple prostitute denying his true gay nature, betraying his scared oaths,his service to the great Mother and joining in with the invading wandering tribes. This dear friends was the original sin. Next time one of those religious ladies tells you it was Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve punch her in her nose. Lay her flat. She walks hand in hand with the oppressor. Give her a good one for all of our people who have been burned at the stake, condemned by religious authorities, marked off for extinction, eaten alive by dogs and wild beasts, castrated, electric shocked, jailed, sent to concentration camps, beaten on city streets and killed on country roads. Yes, go ahead give her a good one. If the powers that be lie to us about how human existence began on the earth what other lies have they told us?  [Read more →]

Grand Marshal Miss Major

A spirited and militant crowd of more than 1,000 trans and gender
non-conforming people and their supporters marched and rallied in 90-degree
heat here June 7, in a historic first New England Trans Pride Day. The official
slogan on posters and T-shirts was “Remember Stonewall? That was
US! [Read more →]

Archives are a wonderful thing. The following was published in the Village Voice as reported by Lucian Truscott IV, who described the events in a front page article headlined, “Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square.”

“Suddenly, the paddy-wagon arrived and the mood of the crowd changed. Three of the more blatant queens–in full drag–were loaded inside, along with the bartender and doorman, to a chorus of catcalls and boos from the crowd. A cry went up to push the paddy wagon over, but it drove away before anything could happen…The next person to come out was a dyke, and she put up a struggle–from car to door to car again again. It was at that moment that the scene became explosive. Limp wrists were forgotten. Beer cans and bottles were heaved at the windows, and a rain of coins descended on the cops.” [Read more →]

Greetings to all.

Our Blogger Registration is fixed and we invite each and everyone to post with us. We would love it. Just click on Blogger Registration.  When QWB started this blog we thought of this as a people’s blog much like our SPEAK OUT cart. Who speaks? We all speak. We would like this blog to become the Queer/LGBT and Ally forum of the area. Let’s talk multi-issue. 

ALERT: First HRC attempts to marginalize the Transgender Community and now Metroline is quick on their heels of Trans Oppression! The current issue of Metroline has an Editorial by the Editor Joseph DaBrow that revises Stonewall History (4th paragraph) by stating that at Stonewall “there were no drag queens there at all. It was gay human beings simply standing up for being who they were.” Has Mr. DaBrow and the publisher of Metroline John Crowley never heard of Sylvia Rivera or Marsha P. Johnson both well know and prominent Stonewall Veterans? Perhaps if Mr. DaBrow and Crowley attended our New England Trans Pride, they would have heard Miss Majors, a Stonewall Veteran, as well as many other speakers remember the critical participation of our Transgender (i.e. Drag Queens or Transvestites in 1969 vernacular) comrades at Stonewall. Or to learn that the theme of this first ever New England Trans Pride was: “Remember Stonewall? That was us!” Or perhaps they never listened to Pacifica Radio’s excellent audio documentary: “Remembering Stonewall.” [Read more →]

A most fantastic day with over 500 queer, trans and other comrades marching through the streets of Northamptom. I will post pics, vids and comments in a day or so, though posting a few simple words I shared with those at the Transgender PRIDE Rally… Btw Mr. Metroline Editor and John Crowley: Miss Major a Stonewall Trans Vet opened the ceremonies (or would you like to revise her hirstory to be an assimilist gay/lesbian Stonewall Vet?)

PRIDE IS MORE THAN A TRINKET TRIBE

PRIDE IS ABOUT A REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AND PEOPLE

June 2008 marks the 39th year after the rebellion at the Stonewall Inn in NYC. This marked the start of the massive LGBT movement in the United states. It was on those nights in June and early July that our people in New York’s Greenwich Village fought back against police harassment, injustice and opperssion that we faced daily. Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of this rebellion. It is never too early to reflect on where we as a people have been, where we are now, and where we are going.

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QUEERS WITHOUT BORDERS (QWB) 

Who we are. 

A small group of Queers activists who are active in the anti-war movement began meeting several years back to bring a queer presence to the many movements that we as individuals were involved in. Our name Queers Without Borders was taken from the slogan, “We are here, there and everywhere.”  It logically follows in our mind then that all issues are our issues. We stand with all who fight oppression. We work to build a new day of justice and a culture of peace. 

Over the years we have actively help to plan and to participate in all sorts of activities.  We firmly believe that for the lgbt community to not take a multi-issue stand is foolish and unwise and any single issue stand denies our true heritage. The following is just some of the events that we worked on. These are not listed in chronological order. [Read more →]

Even if none of us around here can fly off to San Francisco check it out–Mattilda’s book, which I believe is on of the more important works done in these days will be coming out in a expanded second edition. Mattilda will be celebrating this event and there will be “a dangerous and illuminating discussion.” That’s Revolting! Queers Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, will have its launch this Thursday June 5th. Info follows.

FORGET MARRIAGE, IT’S TIME FOR…

That’s Revolting!: Radical queer activism–past, present, and future.

Thursday June, 5, 6pm

San Francisco Main Library

Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room (downstairs)

100 Larkin Street

Co-sponsored by the National Queer Arts Festival.

Click here to read about the book launch this Thursday, 6p.m. Thanks Mattilda. Keep on keeping on!!!

Note: The following remarks are by Jerimarie Liesegang.  Jerimarie is the Director of Ct. TransAdvocacy Coalition and a founding member of Queers Without Borders, Hartford Ct. When the city announced that it was going to correct the problem Jerimarie chose not to give her speech. I publish it here as it is a damn good speech and shows our willingness to correct this situation. Thanks Jerimarie for your leadership on issues affecting our people and many others.

It’s a Travesty.

As one enters New York Harbor the Statue of Liberty proudly proclaims, “Give us your poor, tired, your huddled masses longing to be free.” As one approaches the front doors of the Hartford Public Library in a wheelchair you see the proclamation: “Give us your poor, your tired, your homeless, your sexual predators..and those in wheelchairs GO AROUND BACK for your are NOT Welcomed through these front doors!”

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Everyone should click on over to AlterNet and read Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s recent posting published May 28, 2008. Mattilda certainly has a good perspective on this.  Click here for the full article. To read more of Mattilda’s work go to our side bar and click on her name. Check into linking to AlterNet if you are not all ready signed on.

Note: 

We at QWB since our start have been speaking out about “ gay” (damn I hate calling it that when lesbians are involved also(more blending in?)) marriage since early in our postings. What troubles me as a old activist is the fact that so much of our energy, resources, and time is being spent on this one issue. It has up to this date been hard to convince those in the marriage movement that there is a whole world out there that is struggling also and that GLBT people should as they always did in history past join in these struggles. I should think that by now these very same activists would understand that groups who stand alone are picked off rather quickly. It must be a awful line to walk being so caught up in the straight establishment accepting you and wanting so bad to be legitimized by them that their eyes are blinded to all other struggles. There are countless other wars going on out side your windows and doors. As I have said so many times before if we are indeed here, there and everywhere then these struggles are our struggles. When the shit hits the fan baby, all the blenders blending in won’t be saved. For the straights know you and know who you are. And there you will stand in your wedding gowns and tuxedo a blank look of why oh why on your face when they come to get those who tried to pale their genes but failed. At sixty I am realizing that I have less in common with the gay and lesbian movement, their wants and needs and more in common with others that struggle.

For other QWB postings on marriage click  here, here.

Welcome, Welcome, We join in the Welcome.

QWB Stands In Full Support of Immigrant Rights. Queers know what it is like to be demonized, denied our humanity, blamed for society ills. We know what it is like to have our families and love ones threatened and denied legal recognition. We stand up and out in full support of immigrants.

Join Buffy St. Marie in this wonderful song.

The Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will present its 21st festival this year from May 30-June 7, 2008. All screenings will take place at Cinestudio, 300 Summit Street, Trinity College in Hartford. For festival info: 860-568-1136. Click here for full schedule, tickets, and all other details.

One of our links is AngryBrownButch. The site is run by Jack and always contains some real good stuff. Click on over there and read Jack’s article, The honeymoon is officially over, about the Obama/Rev. Wright controversy. Check out Jack more often from our sidebar.

This picture is so beautiful that I just had to post it. For more information on the upcoming march in Chicago see here . Also see QWB archives here

Thanks to Queer@ for this info. 

*This is a very important report. Please take some time to read it over.*

Everyone should read (and the admin or bloggers should post the reportback from the Bash Back! Convergence we had:

Only one direction, trans and queer insurrection:

A reportback from the Bash Back! anti-RNC/DNC convergence

The Convergence:

The weekend of April 4th-6th, radical transfolk, queers, anarcha-feminists, from all over the country converged in Chicago for the Bash Back! anti-DNC/RNC convergence. In attendance were folks from Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, Tennessee, New York, Georgia, Missouri, Colorado, California and elsewhere. Groups including Bash Back!, Queer Action Network, the Revolting Queers, Unconventional Denver, The RNC Welcoming Committee, Anarchist People of Color, Roadblock Earth First!, the Pomegranate Health Collective,  and Code Pink were represented. The convergence succeeded in creating a safe space for queer, trans, gender-variant and womyn anarchists to meet and articulate our plans to crash the conventions. [Read more →]

Take a pop over to the Hartford Undercurrent and read the posting, “Aladdin’s Hates Fags.” More important read the comment section. Don’t know if I should laugh or cry as they just don’t seem to get it.  Check it out here. We will see what other comments will be added. As Frank said thanks to our straight friends for confronting homophobia as they well should since it is a straight invention. But come on guys and gals don’t you think that there should be some Queer input on this. Do you think that we don’t have a voice. That we are all helpless little ones. Straights don’t wear our shoes nor do we theirs. In my humble opinion as a person who as been in the movement since 1963 I see this as very poor coalition building. Let those who are oppressed lead the charge. Out of the delegation that has said yes so far there are all straights as far as I know unless some are “queer on the side” and all of them white. The icing on the cake is comment #12 what a brush off. Like my thoughts don’t matter, I don’t care what you say. Here is what I say. I am very surprised. [Read more →]

“In the rush towards being accepted as normal, queer communities may lose one of their great strengths: an ability to examine social structures from a position of difference and, therefore, to work towards greater liberation for us all so writes Susan Thompson in her essay, “Speak Now or Forever Hold your Peace? Why we need  Queer Critiques of “gay” Marriage. Susan brings up many of the points that have been discussed on this site since we first opened. I will just name a few and then you can read the entire article by clicking here.

“Framing gay marriage only as a battle for civil rights excludes critiques that examine the issue in a broader social context-critiques that are central to queer theory and queer politics, and are currently dividing queer communities over the issue.” [Read more →]

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Note: As the anniversary of the 5th year of the invasion by the United States and the start of the war against the people of Iraq is marked on Wednesday March 19, I would like to offer this piece to read. Written by Leslie Feinberg and published in the series “Lavender and Red” the article is titled, “Life better for gay and lesbians Iraqis under Hussein.” Its number is 119. This article was published on Jan. 27, 2008. Another article of intrest  is article number 120, “British Colonialism Outlawed ’sodomy’ in Iraq.” Fienberg’s Lavender and Red series is just a click away on our sidebar. There is some amazing articles in the series.

‘Life better for gay & lesbian Iraqis under Hussein’

The New York Times—an imperialist mouthpiece—admitted in a mid-December article that social life was better for those who it described as “gay and lesbian Iraqis” under the secular government of Saddam Hussein. The Times also confirmed that sanctions, war and occupation crushed that social progress and ushered in death-squad terror.

The Dec. 18 article was a political feature, not based on breaking news. The original headline summed up: “Gays Living in Shadows of New Iraq: Violence Replaces Tacit Acceptance.” [Read more →]

http://20six.fr/trans-ftm-gay

Two years after the brutal murder of Gisberta, in Oporto, another transsexual woman was murdered and her body placed in a rubble dumpster in the Lisbon area last month.

Other crimes followed, shocking the country. However, the surge of violence cannot hide neither the victims nor the nature of these crimes. This is the case of Luna, 42, partially deaf, of Brazilian origin, for many years resident and worker in Portugal, prostitute at Conde de Redondo area (in Lisbon).

Two years after Gisberta, transsexual people are still targets for hatred and violence based on prejudice and ignorance. The crime is under investigation and under justice secret, so we know very few about its circumstances or about its motivation; we hope the investigation undertaken by the Police can provide answers. [Read more →]

 ”1 LGBT Person has been murdered every 8 days so far this year and these are only ones we know about.” …Fight Out Loud

On May 15, 1988 Richard Reihl a gay man from West Hartford was murdered by two teenagers. By June 7th gays and lesbians of The Connecticut Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights formed a committee called the Anti-Violence Project in response to the murder. The Project’s mission was to monitor the Reihl murder case and assist the prosecution, educate the community on how to protect ourselves from violence and to combat hate crimes in Connecticut. An organization called Speak Out was formed to educate people by talking directly to many different groups about our lives. The only remaining active part of the original Anti-Violence Project is now called the Stonewall Speakers Bureau. The Bureau mainly goes into the schools for speaking engagements. [Read more →]

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From Clinton’s website:

Join Hillary in Hartford for a “Solutions for the American Economy” town hall

When

Monday, January 28, 2008 at 9:30 AM -  11:30 AM

Where

The Learning Corridor — Commons Gymnasium
43 Vernon St.
Hartford, CT 06106
General Area:

Description

Hillary will be in Hartford, Connecticut on Monday morning to discuss solutions for the American economy, please bring your friends and family and join her. Parking is available at the corner of Brownell Avenue and Washington Street.

This is what I’ve got so far for text for a flyer. Please comment. [Read more →]

THE NIGHT BEFORE THE CONVENTION
by RECREATE 68

‘Twas the night before the Convention, when all through the land

a revolution was stirring, the people were making a stand;

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THE NIGHT BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY
By Jerimarie Liesegang of Queers without Borders

Twas the night before Black Friday, when all through the store,
Not a cash register was ringing, not even a penny rolling on the floor;

The sale signs were hung with the rollback prices near,
In hopes that the greedy capitalists would soon appear;

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The link below is to a video of a police attack on Bill Quigley, an NLG lawyer in New Orleans who has helped lead the legal battle against efforts to demolish public housing in that city. Bill has been in the forefront of legal battles on behalf of the people of New Orleans since long before Hurricane Katrina. As you can see from the video, Bill was literally doing nothing more than standing with a group of people engaged in a loud debate with public officials when a police officer grabbed him, slammed him head first against a wall and handcuffed him for “disturbing the peace.”

The City is making it clear that little things like the law won’t stand in the way of its efforts to make New Orleans a playground for well-heeled white people.

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: [NLGMassdefense] Bill Q & Southern Hospitality
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:31:33 -0800 (PST)
From: bill quigley

http://www.wdsu.com/video/14794232/index.html

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Just recently I read these words,  “all that is happening right now is a perfect example of why organizations might prefer to be single issue!” I am not going to write about the whole flap that was happening but instead I wish to write and think about single and multi-issue movements within our TBLG stories.  This essay could well be called Around and Around and Up and Down and Back and Forth we go. [Read more →]

After the Cheshire murders, the political atmosphere in Connecticut has been contaminated by the same kind of security state mentality that characterized Congress after 9/11. Even some “good” legislators have offered what they call solutions for public safety that involve spending millions on more prisons and rely on harsher punishment and longer prison sentences.

Today’s Courant includes a great Op-ed article by Khalil Iskarous that takes on the “liberal” law-and-order proposals. Khalil is a New Haven activist and member of the Committee Against the Ban on Parole and Unidad Latina.

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Why are we MAD!!

Its not only HRC’s continuing support of a non-inclusive ENDA bill and the disregarding and disrespecting of our Trans sisters and brothers that makes our blood boil, but also their support of Human Rights Abuses around the globe brought to the people by the Corporate world. [Read more →]

T. Trist who commented on one of the postings on QWB turned us on to a very interesting site. This site is called Faith of the Abomination. From the site are these words: “Faith of the Abomination is a provocative, independent documentary film created in Austin TX about the experiences of a lesbian couple who went undercover as a heterosexual couple inside a Evangelical Organization. The film is currently in post production.” The women also have a very interesting blog site at: http://faithoftheAbomination.com. You can also link from there to see a movie preview.

Thanks again to T. Trist for bringing this important work to the attention of QWB.