Originally appeared in Windy City Times on April 13, 2011
In a narrow victory for gay rights activists SB 1123, which would have effectively allowed religious child welfare and adoption agencies to bar adoptions and foster care by gay parents was just struck down.
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.
“I get very excited about the international sex worker organizations, who will not let these positions go uncommented upon, who speak a little truth to the power.”
“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.
“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”
It has been a while since I posted here, but now that the Against Equality book is published, things will start winding down and I will be posting with the same regularity. Much has been happening, and here are just a couple of highlights.
Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.
This image (soon to be replaced by a larger one, bear with us) appeared on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times. Yasmin was interviewed for a cover story titled, “Are singles getting a raw deal?” which appeared on September 23, 2009 to mark Singles Week.