Civil Disobedience LGBT Community Meeting - NYC 12/20

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 3, 2009

Media Contact:
Alan L. Bounville
Activist and Graduate Student
New York University
407-484-6671
alanbounville@gmail.com



CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR LGBTQI EQUALITY

First Meeting in New York City to Set First Action


Several voices have emerged recently calling for the LGBTQI and supportive community to rise up and peacefully take the fight for their freedoms into their own hands. As we have seen this week alone, win some lose some tactics does not ensure all of us are treated equal under the law. The incrementalist approach to gaining full equality has lagged on long enough.

It is time for consistent, well-planned acts of Civil Disobedience for the whole of our nation to know we, those who believe in equality for all will no longer wait for judges, legislators and executives to dole out what is rightfully ours. And we will no longer accept the notion that anyone has the right to vote on civil liberties.

It is time we let those who want to continue working within the three branches of government to do that - and for the rest of us to join forces and do what every other civil rights fight has done to gain full equality - engage in Civil Disobedience.

The first of what will become a series of meetings until our full equality is achieved will be held on Sunday, December 20 from 6-8 pm. The meeting will take place at the LGBT Community Center at 208 W. 13th Street, New York, NY 10011.

At this meeting we will brainstorm as a group all ideas group members have in regard to civil disobedient actions and again, as a group choose our first action.

For more information or to RSVP contact:

Alan L. Bounville
alanbounville@gmail.com

Updated On: 12/3/09 at 06:51 PM

Takes me back to Act-Up days!

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I think we need a lil Act Up
Right this very minute.

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Thumbs up.

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The "Q" is for "Questioning," I believe. I just learned that the other day, actually.

"36. Performances of plays and music"

Let's do this one!!!

I checked. Both "Queer" and "Questioning" are uses for the Q... Having it mean "Queer" seems a little gratuitous though, frankly.

"The letter Q is sometimes added to the end of the acronym LGBT; the Q can refer to either queer, questioning, or questionable."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questioning_(sexuality_and_gender)

Yeah--maybe even Queer can refer to anyone who plays outside the traditional norm--straight people into S&M? We're all deviants and freaks when our attractions and interests are exposed to a judgmental world.

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Updated On: 12/3/09 at 10:01 PM

Do NOT listen to my evil twin, you guys. He causes trouble. How much sense does it make to get arrested in order to get married? A divorce, sure, but married?

Oh, brother.

For the record, my 'oh, brother' was in response to the FindingNamo clone.

There can only be one.

LGBTTQQIIAA

You have got to be kidding, right?

I still don't understand why and when the L jumped before the G. When I was in college it was GLBT.

Discussing the anagram is a hate crime. HATE CRIMINALS!!!!