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On
Marriage Equality Day Wednesday, February 14th . . . (Valentine's Day) PROTEST to demand FULL equal rights, including marriage rights, for
Lesbians & Gays! 4 PM -- Assemble
outside the Cook County Marriage License Bureau, 4:30 PM -- March through the rotunda
of the County / City Hall Building. 5 PM -- March to Holy
Name Cathedral. TWENTY-FIVE
STATES have passed constitutional amendments banning equal
marriage rights for Lesbians and Gays, including next door THE RELIGIOUS
RIGHT is manipulating the issue of marriage to set back our rights
along a broad front, using the issue to stigmatize Lesbians and Gays as second
class citizens. Their agenda
includes inequality for women and a move towards theocracy in
We can either run away from
this fight, and lose, or we can stand up for our rights and our
community.
Please join us for Marriage Equality Day, Wednesday, February
14! Sponsored by the Gay Liberation
Network. Endorsed by For information, email LGBTliberation@aol.com or phone
773-209-1187. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ March Against
Shootings By Bob
Schwartz On January 15th, in a
protest timed to occur on the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., 30 protesters
marched for over two miles along The protest was organized by the Coalition of Black Gays and Lesbians, which includes Marc Loveless and Wil Lockett, the latter of whom is also active in Black LGBTs and Allies for Equality. Loveless told a reporter that only one of the injured men remains in a hospital, and that his injuries are not life threatening. The identity of the shooters and their motive are presently unknown. What IS known is that in response to the shootings, several area residents instead of offering sympathy to the victims, instead expressed extremely raw anti-gay sentiments when interviewed by the media. Moreover, for several days after the shootings, officials--both Black and white---were silent about the violence and hatred expressed. Two residents justified the shooting and suggested that the victims not only brought the violence down upon themselves, but ought to relocate to the "suburbs or some place, since this (Grand Crossing) neighborhood is for normal, you know, straight people." The African American lesbian organization, Affinity, turned out about 12 people for the protest, and one of the residents of the "gay house" joined the march after it paused near his home. He thanked the marchers at the end of the protest, near 79th & Jeffrey. Signs proclaimed, "Black Gays Demand Respect," and "Black Gays Demand Justice." Two gay liberation flags floated over the marchers. Chants proclaimed that the time for justice and respect had arrived. Seven GLN members joined the protest to oppose antigay hate and as an act of solidarity with African American LGBT people. In a letter printed earlier in Chicago Free Press, GLN condemned not only the hatred of some community residents toward their gay neighbors, but the failure of politicians to speak out against the violence and homophobia expressed by some in the neighborhood. In particular, gay alderman Tom Tunney not only offered an opinion that the shooting was "not a hate crime," but failed to criticize the silence of the city administration and other officials in the wake of the violence and hatred meted out to the young gay African Americans. Later, at Rockefeller chapel on the
campus of the Another article about the march can
be seen at http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=13742 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ About Marriage
Equality GLN's Andy Thayer
co-wrote a chapter for a new three volume Praeger series on equal marriage
rights for Lesbians and Gays. At $300 for the set (ouch!), it's
definitely something for checking out of libraries rather than for most personal
collections. In their chapter, Andy
and DontAmend.com's Robin Tyler take on those in our community, and in the
Democratic Party, who scapegoat marriage equality activists for the religious
right's attacks on LGBT people.
They also warn against the LGBT movement's reliance on lobbying to win
our rights (regardless of issue), and call for a return to grassroots street
activism as the key to how civil rights have been won by any group. Here's a synopsis of the
series: Volume 1: "Separate
but Equal" No More: A Guide to the Legal Status of Same-Sex Marriage, Civil
Unions, and Other Partnerships, edited by Mark Strasser
Volume 2: Our
Family Values: Same-Sex Marriage and Religion, edited by Traci C. West
Volume 3: The
Freedom-to-Marry Movement: Education, Advocacy, Culture, and the Media, edited
by Martin Dupuis and William A. Thompson. Andy & Robin's piece is chapter two
of this volume, "The Gay Marriage Struggle: What's at Stake and How Can We
Win?" C8772
0-275-98772-8
978-0-275-98772-5
Ordering information at
www.Praeger.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wednesday,
February 7 -
Monthly Gay
Liberation Network
general meeting. 7 PM at the Gerber Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville (just west
of the "Granville" Red Line el station). We meet the first Wednesday of each
month. Wednesday,
February 14 --
Marriage
Equality Day in
Tuesday,
March 20 --
On the 4th anniversary of the start of the
Gay
Liberation Network |
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