The Chicago History Museum hosted a presentation on Bayard Rustin, the late African-American and gay activist who organized the famed 1963 March on Washington D.C. The event, “Bayard Rustin at 100,” was part of the museum’s “Out at CHM” series.
“None of us have ever said that it’s not discriminatory to have a policy that excludes gay people. What we are saying is that we’re against discrimination, but we’re also against war.”
Caught between people who wanted me to be part of their polyamorous relationship, my response has usually been to flee. Really, people, can we just fuck and let it be?
Just, please, don’t pretend it’s anything more than knitting in the round and don’t pretend to be engaging in some profoundly subversive form of politics.
Excerpt: Consider this: In an economy where home ownership is cast in such deeply racialised terms – in terms of who can buy and where – debt became a way to offer the false hope of citizenship itself.
