Why Gay Marriage Should Not Be at the Top of the Gay Rights Agenda

Also, you can communicate with some other Queer Fisters on Myspace. Check out our profile (and add yourself as our friend): Queer Fist on Myspace

CirCulo, a Spanish-language discussion/language-practice group, will hold its next meeting at Frank's house. Contact info@queerfist.org for location. !Venga!

our call to action on Indymedia, etc.:

This is a call to action for all queers and trannies and genderfucks of the radical sort in NYC to organize with Queer Fist for a J20 action in Washington, DC.

Obviously a slew of radical and anarchist groups are getting ready to pull off some fierce shit in DC to counter the inauguaration of our UNITING NOT DIVIDING president (i mean, i know he brings US together often), and Queer Fist is no different. Here is an open call for all revolutionary dykes, punk fags, hard-core trannies, riotous bisexuals, anarchist genderqueers and any sort of inflammatory homo to organize a contingent with Queer Fist for the counter-inauguration on January 20th in Washington, DC. Our action(s) are still in the planning stages, so I suggest you and yours get in on the ground floor! To connect with us in Queer Fist, write an email to queerfistnyc (at) hotmail.com OR to get really involved, get on the listserv. For that, send an email to queerfist-subscribe (at) lists.riseup.net. 

 watch the listserv for the next date in December.

With 23 people in attendance, the Queer Fist sponsored panel

“Another Queer World is Possible:  Queering and Reclaiming Urban Space

in NYC” at the NYC Social Forum at the CUNY Grad Center on Oct. 28th

stimulated a lively discussion about what a radical queer presence in

NYC could do, as people stayed over an hour longer than planned to continue

the discussion.  Topics roamed from how to link local issues around the

disappearance of queer space in NYC to global issues such as how to

create and imagine transnational solidarity between people of color and queers

around AIDS issues.  Panelists Jack Waters, with Le Petite Versailles

Garden discussed his and Peter’s strategic use of the garden during the RNC

protests, while performing and modeling how queer space can be

reclaimed in a contact improv with the CUNY basement floor.  Mervyn Mercano

discussed his experience working with FIERCE, a group of, by and for queer youth of

color which has been working to reclaim the W. Village and piers from the

recent gentrifying “quality of life” campaigns, and suggested strategies for

white activists interested in working with activist groups comprised primarily

of people of color. Sharonann Lynch, of ACT UP NY and the Health Gap Coalition, discussed these

groups’ recent street actions publicizing Bush’s “false promises” on global

AIDS funding, as well as their efforts working with AIDS activists in

“developing” countries around the world.  Mattilda, of the anti-assimilationist

group Gay Shame in San Francisco, discussed some of GS’s strategies for street

theater performances of fusing “spectacle”with “politics”, discussing the difficulty

of maintaining the right balance between politics and partying.

Naomi Clark discussed the Silvia Rivera Law Project’s recent projects

confronting the gender-normativity of bathrooms and the experience of trans people

at the hands of the police in protests, prisons and everyday life.

The panel was moderated by Dominic Wetzel, of CUNY and Queer Fist.

Even after getting kicked out, the group flowed out into the hallway area,

continuing on with a lively discussion evaluating Queer Fist’s participation

in the RNC protests, our attempts at working with and creating solidarity with

activist groups composed primarily of people of color, such as FIERCE’s

recent protest in the W. Village, our participation in the Oct. 22 Coalition

protest, and how we might build a real radical queer network in NYC post-RNC.

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