Soon to enter its 13th year, Dyke March Chicago is, for many lesbians and transgender people, an alternative to Pride Parade. Historically, the March has remained on the city’s North side. This year, it’ll be in Pilsen, home to a predominantly Latina/o community. In the last few weeks, organizers began hearing complaints about the change […]
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So, are the unmarried sluts among us who have abortions less deserving of protection from anti-abortion zealots?
A new blog cleverly designed to resemble a book.
Can we fight for the rights of those whose lives and experiences don’t fit our exoticizing paradigms, whose professions are not morally redeeming?
Approximately 15 people gathered outside Women and Children First, 5233 N. Clark, for International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO, first marked in 2005) May 17. Following comments by Andy Thayer of the Gay Liberation Network (GLN) and Arsham Parsi of IRQO (Iranian Queer Organization), they marched down Clark Street to Gerber/Hart library, 1127 W. Granville, and a reception for the latter speaker.
The passage of Proposition 8 in California came about because of efforts by Christian fundamentalists and the Mormon Church. As a result, there has been a great deal of discussion about the relationship between the gay and lesbian community and religion. Most accounts tend to separate the two; it’s often forgotten that a significant number of gays and lesbians are also people of faith.
Calling the 377 ruling “India’s Stonewall” assumes an unchanging and ahistorical gay reality across time and place, where all gay struggles are the same and achieve the same logical goals. And, in the process, we erase the realities of both Stonewall and 377.
There’ll be no one to claim the body or your pitiful estate.
Leaving India remains an important and clear-eyed look at the realities behind the diasporas of our modern world.