Tag Archives: activism

NEW YORK CITY: Activists Announce Plan To Block Traffic Over Marriage Rights

Perhaps taking their cue from GetEQUAL’s blockade of the Las Vegas strip last summer, Queer Rising today issued a press release announcing their plan to blockade Manhattan traffic next Tuesday in a protest over marriage rights. The LGBTQ activist organization Queer Rising has planned a March 1 demonstration to protest the lack of marriage equality in New York State. A …

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DOMA Rally In The Castro

Shot yesterday by JMG reader Matt Baume.

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NOM Supporters Routinely Call For Murdering Gays, Yet NOM Is Furious
About “Incivility” Of Gay Protests

Even though, as has been documented here many, many times, NOM’s supporters routinely invoke Biblical calls for the execution of homosexuals, NOM has the motherfucking nerve to clutch their beads because LGBT activists peacefully protested outside a Chicago-area Catholic Church.

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Matt Baume: This Week In Prop 8

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Valentine’s Marriage Actions Nationwide

Compiled by Stop 8’s Matt Baume, here’s a look at marriage equality protests that took place across the country this week.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE: Former Marine Advocates For Same-Sex Marriage

Longtime JMG reader Calvin writes to brag about his big brother, who has published a full-page pro-same sex marriage ad in New Hampshire’s biggest newspaper.

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Links Of Love For Colorado’s Lawmakers

On Valentine’s Day, volunteers from One Colorado delivered “links of love” to lawmakers as a way of highlighting the need for the state’s proposed civil unions law.

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San Francisco Marriage Sit-In

Video by JMG reader Sean Chapin. Nice work!

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BRITAIN: Peter Tatchell Calls For Blanket Pardon For Men Convicted Of Gay Sex

British gay activist Peter Tatchell says his government should issue a blanket pardon for all men convicted of the former crime of homosexual sex, charges that Tatchell says can still follow a person for years. While the government has no plans to grant pardons, it has announced plans to disregard the offences on criminal records. Currently, they can be viewed …

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Matt Baume: This Week In Prop 8

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Valentine’s Day Activism: NYC Gay Couple Turned Away At Marriage Bureau

This morning a gay couple was turned away at the New York City marriage bureau in a Valentine’s Day protest staged by Marriage Equality New York. That’s MENY head Cathy Marino-Thomas speaking behind the men.

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PERU: Cops Violently Break Up Anti-Homophobia Valentine’s Kiss-In

Andres Duque of Blabbeando provides the subtitles to the below clip in which police in Lima, Peru violently break up a Valentine’s Day kiss-in against homophobia.

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Unmarried Until Gay Marriage

About a dozen married straight couples were “umarried until gay marriage” yesterday in a Central Park protest staged by performance artist Reverend Billy. More photos here.

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UnMarriage Until Gay Marriage

Popular performance artist Rev. Billy and his Church of Life After Shopping will stage a mass un-wedding in Central Park this Sunday. Straight, married supporters of same sex marriage will un-marry in a mass ritual at New York City’s Bethesda Angel this Valentine’s Day weekend, sending a strong message to New York State’s leadership for the for the second year …

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The Failure To Act

Here’s a touching account of the early years of AIDS and the Reagan administration as told by the son of a then-budding lesbian activist.

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New Yorkers Turn Out For David Kato Vigil And Protest At Uganda’s UN Mission

Despite the bone-chilling temperatures, a large crowd of LGBT activists, allies, and local politicians stood in the slush and snow tonight near the United Nations to memorialize slain Ugandan activist David Kato, who now stands accused being responsible for his own murder by the Ugandan police. Speakers included the head of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, gay …

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Ugandan Police: David Kato Forced The Killer To Commit Sodomy

Aaaand here we have it. As predicted, the Ugandan police, who have a track record of beating and killing gay people, are now claiming that David Kato’s killer was forced to murder him. Because Kato was a dirty homosexual who wanted sex. Or so an “anonymous police source” is claiming to the press. From the Uganda Monitor: A man whom …

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UGANDA: Police Make Arrest In Kato Murder, Say Robbery Not A Motive

Last week the disreputable Ugandan police insisted that David Kato’s murder was a mere robbery gone lethal and had nothing to do with his status as the nation’s most prominent LGBT activist. Now the police have changed their story after arresting a man they say has confessed to the killing. Which now isn’t robbery-related. “The prime suspect, Nsubuga Enock, was …

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Tomorrow In DC: GetEQUAL To Picket Anti-Gay National Prayer Breakfast

Tomorrow morning in Washington, DC, activists from GetEQUAL will picket the National Prayer Breakfast, where members of the infamously anti-gay and shadowy GOP congressional group The Family will gather with other politicians and lobbyists. The Family has been outed as supportive of Uganda’s gay death penalty bill. Details here.

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Thursday In Manhattan: Memorial Vigil For Slain Ugandan LGBT Activist David Kato

The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission is organizing a memorial vigil for murdered Ugandan activist David Kato. The starting point of the procession is not yet determined, but attendees will finish at the Ugandan embassy. I’ll post more details as they are known.

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