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Gay Shame Awards, 6/27, 5:30pm: Reminder
2nd Annual Gay Shame Awards and Walk of Shame...
Posted: Thu, Jun 26, 2003 6:14pm PDT
Urgent Support Needed
Support Conscientious Objector and First Amendment rights...
Posted: Sun, Jun 1, 2003 3:59pm PDT
1,112 and Counting
This is a groudbreaking essay that helped start the fight against AIDS....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2003 11:51am PDT
A historic article that helped start the fight against AIDS (english)
Unavailable before on the internet, this is the full text of the 1983 article that helped start the movement against AIDS. Please spread widely. (see the attached .rtf file with complete formatting)...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 5:18pm PDT
San Jose Marine reservist refuses to go to war
Funk, said that the military does not plan on charging him; he will be on restricted duty, working a desk job at the base in San Jose while officials consider his application for discharge...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2003 6:06pm PST
San Jose Marine Reservist Refuses To Serve, Says He's Conscientious Objector
Marine Corps reservist Stephen Funk turned himself in at his reserve unit in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday April 1, 2003. The 20-year-old Marine reservist who got called to active duty refuses to serve in the Iraqi conflict, claiming conscientous objector status....
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2003 3:00pm PST
36 SF queer pairs hitched, zero notices in BAR
36 SF queer couples get hitched, zero notices in the BAR...
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2003 4:50pm PST
Gays Bashed by Gavin Newsom's Cops
Police bashed gay activists protesting Gavin Newsom at the San Francisco LGBTQ Center...
Posted: Fri, Feb 7, 2003 3:42am PST
Political Funeral for Murdered Queers
Sunday, November 3rd, San Francisco, Market and Sunday, November 3rd, San Francisco, Market and Sixteenth Streets, 5pm. GAY SHAME presents a political funeral for Jihad Alim Akbar and Gwen Araujo....
Posted: Sat, Nov 2, 2002 3:59pm PST
Gay Shame Marchs Against Newsom's Prop N in the Marina District
Around 6PM on Friday October 25th about 300 protesters ( organized by the group Gay Shame)gathered in the Marina district to protest Gavin Newsom and proposition N (which takes money away from the homeless and is being used by Newsom to drum up support from the business community for a run for mayor in 2003)...
Posted: Fri, Oct 25, 2002 11:35pm PDT
Queer “Settlers” Land on Berkeley Starbucks, Analogy to Israeli Colonists
About 25 queer settlers descended on a downtown Berkeley Starbucks on Saturday, August 17, claiming Berkeley as “a city without people for people without a city.” The street theatre called attention to Israeli colonies in Palestine....
Posted: Sun, Aug 18, 2002 11:01pm PDT
Fight the Gay Right
Why should progressives care about the queer community? Not just because it has long been part of the left, but because it may not always be. As homophobia becomes a less formative force--at least for the most fortunate gay people--all the old ways of thinking are up for grabs....
Posted: Fri, Jun 14, 2002 2:45pm PDT
Wash Post mistakenly calls Castroguys a gay community group
Wash Post mistakenly calls Castroguys a gay community group...
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2002 9:32am PDT
6/30 Join SFGay Day Labor Contingent
As we know, June is Gay Pride Month, and San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade and Celebration, attracting 1 million plus participants, is the best in the West! The 32nd Annual Parade and Celebration will be on June 30, 2002 from Beale and Market (near the Embarcadero) to the Civic Center. As always, there will be a Labor Contingent, and everyone regardless of sexual orientation who supports labor and gay rights is welcome to join us....
Posted: Sun, May 12, 2002 1:11pm PDT
Wallflowers no more!
On Sunday and Monday June 2-3, 2002, academics, activists, experts, artists and luminary speakers will converge on San Francisco for the historic launch of Disability and Queerness: The First International Conference....
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2002 6:01pm PDT