Howard Brown Health Center’s (HBHC) former CEO and president Jamal Edwards departed the organization in August 2012, amid a flurry of complaints and questions about his management style and strategies.
In other words, it’s completely legal to fire someone for any reason in more states than those where it’s legal to fire someone for being gay.
But marriage, as represented by the giant equal sign, is seen as the silver bullet, despite the fact that gay marriage will help make rich gays and lesbians a lot richer and leave the rest of us behind.
Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.
It’s also significant that the text of the bill specifically names “gang members,” code for youth of colour.
Gay marriage will become a way to make neoliberalism both palatable and more palpable, more an everyday part of our lives.
“We often believe that queerness resists neoliberalism, and it really doesn’t.”
There has never been a left case for gay marriage.
When we focus on who commits such acts, we conveniently forget why they happen in the first place. And then, of course, it allows us to forget a simple fact: no one actually deserves to die a violent and senseless death.
I recently did an interview with my friend, collaborator, and fellow Against Equality collective member Dr.Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT (89.9 fm), out of Madison. We talked about my piece, “Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference,” and related matters.
You can listen to it here.