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Gay Shame S.F.

Date:
Dec 17 2001

From the screaming queens of the Stonewall Riots to the contemporary Human Rights Campaign corporate gays, the politics and methods of queer activism have clearly fluxuated. By the late 1970s, the radicalism of stonewall was replaced with a more formal…

Angel Action

Practitioner:
Romaine Patterson

Date:
Dec 17 2001

Matthew Shepard was attacked by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on October 7, 1998, the victim of an anti-gay hate crime. He was pronounced dead on October 12th. Shepard’s funeral was protested by Fred Phelps, notorious leader of the Westboro…

Political Pieing: Anita Bryant

Practitioner:
Thom Higgins

Date:
Dec 17 2001

Gay rights activist, Thom Higgins, pied Anita Bryant, singer, former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, Florida Orange Juice Representative, and anti-gay rights activist, at a press conference in Des Moines IA. Bryant was a relentless crusader against gay rights. She…

Reversing the Lens: Sexual Harrassment Victim uses social media, leads to harasser’s arrest

Practitioner:
Hollaback!, Thao Nguyen

Date:
Dec 17 2001

A young woman named Thao Nguyen was riding the R train in NYC when a man sitting across from began to masturbate. Nguyen snapped a picture of him, but the policewoman to whom she reported the incident had little interest…

Mama’s Day Our Way

Practitioner:
Strong Families

Date:
Dec 17 2001

By Latoya Peterson, Racialicious Looking for a way to celebrate the folks who raised you–but from a slightly different perspective than you would get down at Hallmark? The good people over at Strong Families (a project of Forward Together/Asian Communities…

Gay And Occupy Activists Confront Scott Lively And His Merry Band Of Tea Party Protestors

Practitioner:
Gay rights activists

Date:
Dec 17 2001

By Evan Mulvihill, Queerty. When Tea Party activists gathered in Boston yesterday afternoon, they weren’t given license to shout their Small Government slogans at disinterested passersby—liberal activists of all stripes showed up to shout them down. Who doesn’t love a…

ACT UP is at it again

Practitioner:
ACT UP

Date:
Dec 17 2001

Long before the red ribbon became an innocuous symbol of AIDS “awareness” and celebrity philanthropy, there was the pink triangle and there was ACT UP and there were thousands of people taking to the streets for their lives. Once a…

It’s OK to Say Gay

Practitioner:
Ok to Say Gay

Date:
Dec 17 2001

Missourians are fighting against legislation that would essentially make it legal to bully against LGBT students in the state’s schools. From the activists’ site (http://oktosaygay.org/): Leaders in the Missouri House are supporting “Don’t Say Gay” legislation (HB2051) to eliminate discussions…