J18: Join the Queer Contingent!

Join the queer contingent !

Saturday, January 18, between 10:30 & 11am
at the mass mobilization against the war,**

Meet: corner of Drumm and Market Streets

Look for “Out Against The War” and other LGBT banners.
Wear lavender.
Bring banners and signs.

AS LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER FOLK, WE OPPOSE THE WAR:

--It will cause untold deaths on all sides.

--In our own community, this billion-dollar war will drain precious resources from everything to fighting AIDS to money to support queer youth programs; outside our community it will drain funds for all social services, education, and health research .

--It will mean more attacks on our civil liberties, already under seige by the Bush Administration. As queers we‚ have always benefited from the exercise of these freedoms, the same freedoms our government claims it is going to war to protect.

--As queers we are often the victims of hate crimes. We must stand in solidarity with Arabs and Arab Americans who are being victimized by hate crimes and INS detentions in this country. We cannot stand passively by and allow another Manzanar [the California internment camp for Japanese-Americans during WWII, who were jailed only for being born of Japanese descent.].

We also denounce the attacks on synagogues by the same hatemongers.

====Stop the hate, stop the war!====

**If the bombing of Iraq starts before January 18, a protest is being called at Powell and Market, 5pm, that day.

Prepared by Out Against The War, a coalition of LGBT groups and individuals opposed to war.