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Mon Mar 12 2001
Queer Activist Attacked In Chicago
On Feb 1, protests were held outside Orangeview Junior High in Anaheim in reaction to the Anaheim Union High School District's banning of books about prominent gays and lesbians. Despite instructions over the PA system that students were not to talk to protesters, many joined the activists and made their own signs and chants. Details
Wed Jun 26 2002
2002 Pride Weekend Celebration in SF
June, 2002: The 32nd Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Transsexual Pride celebration took place at the end of June. Among the featured events are the Dyke March and the Pride March on 6/30. The Labor Contingent calls on all who support gay rights and labor rights to join the festivities and contest the reign of the anti-labor and anti-gay Bush administration, whose policies continue to terrorize workers of all sexual orientations. Gay Shame, a self-proclaimed "anti-capitalist alternative to consumerist Pride crap," lead a counter-demonstration at the parade.
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Sat Oct 26 2002
Gay Shame derides Newsom's poverty plan
October, 2002: Newsom's bid for mayor in San Francisco is riding on the backs of the poor and homeless, using the rhetoric of compassion to mask reality. Gay Shame organized a demonstration in the Marina to expose Newsom's lies where he feels most comfortable, the wealthy Marina District. Photos: 1 | 2
Based on recent deaths of prisoners with HIV/AIDS, California Prison Focus (CPF) demanded that Corcoran Warden A.K. Scribner and California Department of Corrections Director Edward Alameida launch an immediate investigation. CPF, along with other prisoners' rights and community organizations, will demonstrate in front of Corcoran prison’s front gate, 4001 King Avenue, on 10/19 at 2:30PM to expose continued human rights abuses at Corcoran prison. Details
Fri Feb 7 2003
Gay Shame Attacked By Police While Protesting Gavin Newsom
2/7/2003:Members of the community organization Gay Shame had gathered outside
the SF Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center to say
"shame!" on Gavin Newsom for notorious anti-homeless policies, as well as on the Center
for its cynical attempt to cozy up to the conservative mayoral frontrunner.
By holding an event with Gavin Newsom, the Center revealed who its real community was- and who got left out. At $125, tickets for the fundraiser cost more than twice the
monthly income of San Francisco's neediest under Newsom's new "Care not Cash" plan.
Towards the end of the peaceful protest, demonstrators tried to follow Gavin into the center and the SFPD rushed them, hitting them with police battons as the center's communications director looked on. Four protestors were arrested, two of whom were thrown face down into the street and dragged over concrete to the police wagons.
There will be a press conference Monday February 10th at noon at the Hall of Justice 850 Bryant SF
Details 1 | 2 | 3 | Pictures | More on Gavin Newsom
Towards the end of the peaceful protest, demonstrators tried to follow Gavin into the center and the SFPD rushed them, hitting them with police battons as the center's communications director looked on. Four protestors were arrested, two of whom were thrown face down into the street and dragged over concrete to the police wagons.
There will be a press conference Monday February 10th at noon at the Hall of Justice 850 Bryant SF
Details 1 | 2 | 3 | Pictures | More on Gavin Newsom
Sat Jun 28 2003
US Supreme Court Rules Texas Sodomy Law Unconstitutional
On Thursday, June 26 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas sodomy law that made it a crime for people of the same sex to engage in "deviate sexual intercourse." Lawrence v. Texas gives Gay rights advocates a major victory, and Gay people everywhere cause for celebration. But the struggle is not over. Radical Queers, in the spirit of the great Harry Hay, continue to push the bounderies of liberation beyond mere identity politics, and to raise class consciousness among people everywhere, not just in the Gay ghetto.
Pictures Of Local Rallies And Protests: 1- 2- 3
Pictures Of Local Rallies And Protests: 1- 2- 3
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