Breaking News
Originally published in Windy City Times, April 15, 2011
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), a project of the Heartland Alliance, recently released a mass civil rights complaint about the “abuse and mistreatment” of thirteen immigrant detainees in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The complaint was filed with the DHS’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Office of Inspector General on April 13.
“Contrary to what some people believe, it is not just conservative heterosexual institutions that criticize the gay-marriage movement. Although their reasoning is different, queer activists also have their criticisms.”
Ryan Conrad and I unveiled the first Against Equality book, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, at my beloved Bezazian branch of the Chicago Public Library. Andrew Davis, my longtime editor at Windy City Times generously covered the event. We had about 30 people in attendance, and could not have been more thrilled with the conversation.
A little-known fact: Ryan and I have been working on the book for over a year, but this was the first time we met in person.
You can read the article here. Image by Andrew Davis.