A small group of us from "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" marched in the Dykemarch on Saturday June 23, and in the Pridemarch on Sunday. We carried signs against the LGBT Center’s censorship of ANY programs or groups critical of Israel, and we carried signs protesting Israel’s "pinkwashing" (advertising Israel as a supposed haven for Gay people while suppressing the fact that it is a hell for Palestinians, whether Gay or straight.)
I was amazed by the response. On Saturday an adorable young person ran up to us, thanked...
QAIA's pride flyer - download & print
6/22/12
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Print double-sided, 4 to a page. See you at Pridez!
QAIA pride flyer 2012
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QAIA @ PRIDE: March with us! (Meet-up details now posted.)
6/20/12
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We are seriously everywhere. You can march with QAIA five times this weekend!
Fri 6/22 - Trans Day of Action - 3-7pm @ Washington Sq. Park - QAIA has wholeheartedly endorsed this event, and a few of us will be there, but no contingent. It's at Washington Square Park, but we also heard there's a march down Christopher Street?
Fri 6/22 - Queer Ball - 6:30pm starting @ Washington Sq. Park - anti-corporate ki-ki from the end of the Trans march to the start of the Drag march, at Tompkins Square Park.
Fri 6/22 -...
"Pinkwatching Israel" has a fierce new website
Pinkwatching Israel just launched a fancy new website that tracks and debunks pinkwashing campaigns, and hosts a library of resources for anti-pinkwashers.
Maybe the most awesome update on the new site is about the coordination of 23 Muslim and Arab queer organizations to fight some pretty odious pinkwashing, in late 2011.
'[HM2F]... published an ethnographic report on Palestinian queer life - a subject completely unfamiliar to them. Indeed, HM2F is a French Muslim queer organisation that deems the occupying...
Gay institutions vs. progressive queers, in the Village Voice ("Does Gay Inc. believe in free speech?")
We've been thinking it, you've been thinking it, and now the Village Voice's Steven Thrasher has written an excellent article on it: GLAAD, HRC, the LGBT Center and other gay institutions are obstacles to queer community organizing, not helpers. They answer to their boards full of finance industry gay-bots, not queers. They use queers -- and especially queer tragedies of violence and exclusion -- as their platform for taking a seat at the table with corporations and politicians. There, they hold on to power by not...
Wed 6/20: SIT-IN MEETING for pride planning, t-shirt-making & sign-sparkling.
6/14/12
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Occupy the Center! Join Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (NYC) for our sign-making, Pride-planning SIT-IN at the LGBT Community Center this Wednesday night.
NYC LGBT Community Center208 W. 13th St. – Lobby!Wed., June 20 6:30 PMBring a (very) light-colored t-shirt to get the QAIA stencil.
--------------------------Ok queers – it’s time to Occupy the Center again! Until the Center takes a clear stand against anti-Arab hate – until the outrageous ban on pro-Palestinian queer organizing is rescinded –...
Israeli queers against apartheid...
6/7/12
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Okay, so it's from 2 years ago. Still good!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gangreen/sets/7215762426510356...
Join QAIA for Pride month events and actions.
QAIA @ Brooklyn Pride! Saturday, June 9, 7:30pm
Palestine solidarity queers will stand alongside the Pride March route (instead of marching this year.)
Meet at 14th St., bet. 5th and 6th Aves.
-Subway: F,G,R to 4th Ave. and 9th St.-
(ISO, which will be part of the sideline Palestine contingent, is hosting a fundraiser/party starting at 6pm in the same location at 274 14th St.)
QAIA @ Manhattan Pride! Sunday, June 24 - Check back here for details.
QAIA will march as a contingent in NYC Pride.
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Pinkwashing is NPR's top story right now!
6/4/12
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This story popped up on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon, and this evening it's the top story on NPR's website!
It's pretty straightforward reporting on the issue: Israel is unpopular so it's doing intensive PR, it's using queers as fodder and massively overblowing its queer progress, and the occupation is still a war crime that can't be papered over. Couldn't be simpler.
Full text is below, but go read it on NPR's website.
June 4, 2012The sun is setting, gay pride flags wave next to the water, same-sex...
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At NYC Israel parade, QAIA challenges "gay rights" diversion from apartheid laws
6/3/12
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PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
Date: June 3, 2010
"QUEERS AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID" PROTEST AT NYC ISRAEL PARADE
Protesters denounce Israeli government plan to use pro-gay messages to divert attention from apartheid laws; challenge Quinn to oppose anti-Muslim discrimination at LGBT Center
New York - LGBT activists protested at New York City's "Celebrate Israel" parade today, objecting to Israel's apartheid laws denying Palestinian human rights and its use of gay rights messaging to portray Israel as open and...
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