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Direct Action Spokescouncil: Reclaiming King's Legacy in the Age of Trump
A Bay Area-wide spokescouncil is currently planning and coordinating actions for the upcoming Martin Luther King Day on January 16 through to the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20. A diverse coalition will engage in #120Hours of direct action, coalition building, and campaign launching against white supremacy. Let's carry forward and amplify the struggle, together!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2016 2:32pm PST
Scott Wiener's Legacy - A Century of Protest Undone
Video of how a city Supervisor overturned one of San Francisco's longest running traditions and oldest laws. NSFW for some. [5:57]...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2016 7:25pm PDT
Chelsea Manning Punishment for Suicide Attempt is Cruel and Inhumane
A prison disciplinary board has sentenced Chelsea Manning, who is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, to 14 days in solitary confinement following her suicide attempt in July....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2016 12:46pm PDT
Indonesian Atrocities against Gays
FYI: Indonesian Consulate General in San Francisco
1111 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA
United States
TELEPHONE: (415) 474.9571
FAX: (415) 441-4320
HEAD OF MISSION: Mr Asianto Sinambela, Consul General...
Posted: Mon, Feb 29, 2016 8:38pm PST
Black Queer Liberation Collective Black.Seed Shuts Down Bay Bridge
For Immediate Release
January 19, 2016 — 4pm...
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 6:03pm PST
Friends and Family
The transition from the traditional family to the family of friends....
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 1:48pm PST
Obama asked to abstain from handshake with child misuser
It is a long dark story dating back into the days of the iron curtain and the Krakov evangelisation movement, and a more than sad one for too many souls silenced by the careers that paved their way through their lives. It involves seniors talking like child actors losing the distinction between stage and street, and the aborted land reform in the aftermath of the centuries-lasting warlord rancher system the „Wetland Crusade” had left behind in the Northern European Plains to catch up with its...
Posted: Tue, Oct 6, 2015 5:11am PDT
Task Force Urges Pope Francis to Practice "Golden Rule" for LGBTQ People and Families
Washington, DC, September 24, 2015 — The National LGBTQ Task Force is urging Pope Francis to practice the “Golden Rule” for LGBTQ people and their families. The Pope emphasized the often quoted axiom in his address to a joint session of the US Congress—but went on to implicitly criticize marriage equality and reproductive rights, issues of vital importance to LGBTQ people and their allies....
Posted: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 12:01pm PDT
Chelsea Manning Contingent in the SF Pride Parade
Honoring the Whistleblower. The Pvt. Chelsea Manning Contingent marched again this year in the SF Pride Parade...
Posted: Fri, Jul 3, 2015 1:04am PDT
Open Letter to SF Pride (re: Pink Brick for AirBnB)
Open Letter to SF Pride (re: Pink Brick for AirBnB)...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2015 10:03am PDT
UCSC Announces Arrest Made in Hate Crime Assault Case
The UC Santa Cruz administration has announced an arrest has been made in connection with the assault and hate crime investigation of an incident that occurred at Kresge College on February 7. According to reports from that evening, a fight broke out at a party and one of the students injured was targeted because of his sexual orientation. Arrest warrants were issued for Brandon W. Beaton, 22, a Kresge College student who is no longer enrolled at UCSC, and Jesse E. Robles, 24, who is from Los...
Posted: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 1:59pm PDT
NBC Bay Area’s Bay Area Revelations Series Returns With Rebels & Revolutions
Second Chapter Untold Stories of the Bay Area’s History in Leading Political and Social Movements...
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 6:26pm PDT
SF, June, 2015: " PinkWash CenterDay"
Pink Saturday" won't happen in 2015.
Instead, the City and the Center will offer
a farce. The real event may revive in 2016;
dea volente!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 10:18am PDT
50th anniversary of gay-lib march [ BEFORE Stonewall ]
On Easter Sunday 1965,
half a century ago,
protesters marched in Manhattan --
against homophobia.
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Posted: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 7:17pm PST
Pleich Allows Cyberstalking and Bullying in his FB group Citizens for a Better Santa Cruz
Steve Pleich allows cyberstalking and bullying on FB Citizen for a Better Santa Cruz. He lets members of his group slander and character assassinated fellow local activists-advocates. He has allowed my brother John and I to be stalked even though we left his group and asked him to stop allowing anyone to post anything about or use our names in any posts. We are not the only fellow activists-advocates he has allowed this to happen to: i.e. he allowed TBSC's Jim Spring to cyberbully a much re...
Posted: Sun, Oct 19, 2014 10:50pm PDT
Legal Gay Marriage Coming to 30 States and the District of Columbia
By refusing to hear related cases, the US Supreme Court brings legal gay marriage to 30 states and the District of Columbia. The move is good news for same-sex couples in Utah, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming. The Supreme Court's decision to stay out of the issue is bad news for gay couples in states like Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee, which may now have to wait longer before they can marry....
Posted: Mon, Oct 6, 2014 12:31pm PDT
Gambia: President should reject homophobic law
President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia should not sign a new Criminal Code amendment that would increase the punishment for “aggravated homosexuality” to life in prison, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on September 9. The measure would further add to the climate of fear for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in Gambia....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2014 12:54am PDT
Queers acting against racism
Across the U$A, many queers and LGBTI persons
[ and groups] are
responding to the racism which Ferguson symbolizes.
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What do YOU think we should do?
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Posted: Thu, Aug 28, 2014 11:09am PDT