J18: Join the Queer Contingent!

The question is -- will your contingent go with the breakaway march? Or will it stop marching when IAC tells it to stop marching? A contingent is only a contingent if it marches in the real protest!

We'll do what our members decide and feel comfortable with when they feel comfortable with it.

Any other questions?

Thanks for noticing Nessie. However, that the bombing of Iraq hasn't stopped in the last 11 years is taken by most folks as a big DUH.

If I have to explain it to you, the phrase is intended to signify the need to protest once the hot war is "declared", not to argue whether sanctions and the bombing of the so-called no fly zones are or are not in fact a form of warfare.

Plus, imagine trying to fit that on half of a 8 1/2 x 11 flyer.

Anyone else?

So, the queers have no objection to a terrorist state that intends to distribute weapons to destroy America? Or have you given the victory to Iraq for it oppressive regime that certainly woud have you rounded up and slain?

If there were to be three separate breakaway marches, Red, Black and Green, and they're all went off in different directions at the same time, and just then, out of the blue (so to speak), a Lavender breakaway march erupted spontaneously, and it headed off in a fourth direction, which direction would that be?

Forward, not straight. Naturally!

PS The queer contingent is not a breakaway march, however some of us will try to get down to the Eagle for a after-march concoction, while the non-drinkers will head over to Mission Records to gawk at the cute boys and girls there.

So you are half yuppies, and half indie rock dorks with little to no commitment to social change. Great! Another nail in the coffin of gay people representing any kind of radical departure from mainstream society. Why dont you kick some homeless people while you're at it? Or just go on the damned breakaway march.

Take a pill, Mary.

Isn't that owned by a cop? Or is that just the rumor going around?

What's up with the queer contingent? Compare the commentary here with the other groups that are truly bound by some common ideology (communists, labor, even black bloc). The LGBT movement is too dilute and mainstream. Evidently we've all gotten enough rights that we can take advantage of the unjust economic system at the expense of some other "other". I cannot say I identify with this group.

What's up with AnMarie? Is she on crack? Compare her commentary here with the other queer haters that are truly bound by some common ideology (ignorant, reactionary, shittalking). Her movement is too dilute and mainstream, she needs some diuretics or perhaps a kung fu lesson. Evidently she's gotten enough rights that she can take advantage of the organizing of others at the expense of pretending to be holier than thou. I cannot say I identify with this fool.

I don't know what you're talking about lady, because last time I checked, I have never been mainstream, dilute, nor do I take advantage of the unjust economic system at the expense of some other "other." I know PLENTY of queer people who have been beaten down, shut out, silenced, and DENIED humanity by the so-called mainstream and the economic system you say we are a part of. We queers are FAR from being part of the mainstream.

As far as having a coherent ideology in response to the war, who aren't we as queers to better to understand what a history of persecution by fundamentalist religious factions, as felt by Muslims, Arabs, and other Americans of Middle Eastern descent? If anything, we hold a SPECIAL solidarity with those is this country since this war had started, way back on September 11th, and nationalistic radicals started hating on anyone with a turban on their head. It would be fallicious and ignorant to think that contingents like the socialists, communists, or people of color have an ideology that binds them together more strongly than the queer contingent that exists all over this country in every city in every home. Even these groups you identified are not composed of political clones or fish in a school going the same direction. No person's issues are identical to any other, and there is no way an activist coalition can bind together all of the values and beliefs its members have created and owned independently. The labor contingent has the same infrastructural issues the communist contingent, the people of color, the queer contingent, or any other movement does. Don't let the REAL mainstream media brainwash you with the LIES that they feed all the rest of the haters.

I don't know what you're talking about lady, because last time I checked, I have never been mainstream, dilute, nor do I take advantage of the unjust economic system at the expense of some other "other." I know PLENTY of queer people who have been beaten down, shut out, silenced, and DENIED humanity by the so-called mainstream and the economic system you say we are a part of. We queers are FAR from being part of the mainstream.

As far as having a coherent ideology in response to the war, who aren't we as queers to better to understand what a history of persecution by fundamentalist religious factions, as felt by Muslims, Arabs, and other Americans of Middle Eastern descent? If anything, we hold a SPECIAL solidarity with those is this country since this war had started, way back on September 11th, and nationalistic radicals started hating on anyone with a turban on their head. It would be fallicious and ignorant to think that contingents like the socialists, communists, or people of color have an ideology that binds them together more strongly than the queer contingent that exists all over this country in every city in every home. Even these groups you identified are not composed of political clones or fish in a school going the same direction. No person's issues are identical to any other, and there is no way an activist coalition can bind together all of the values and beliefs its members have created and owned independently. The labor contingent has the same infrastructural issues the communist contingent, the people of color, the queer contingent, or any other movement does. Don't let the REAL mainstream media brainwash you with the LIES that they feed all the rest of the haters.