Sarah Schulman reading from her new book
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
Mon. March 11 @ 7pm
NYC LGBT Community Center (208 West 13th St.
Free & open to the public!
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Free & open to the public!
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Queers Against Israeli
Apartheid (NYC-QAIA)
is proud to welcome Sarah Schulman with a reading from her new book, Israel/Palestine
and the Queer International as NYC launches Israel Apartheid Week.
This event is
a huge victory for free speech and queer organizing, and we hope you’ll come
celebrate it with us! Beginning in March 2011, the NYC LGBT Center banned any
discussion of Palestine, in response to pressure from wealthy supporters of
Israel’s anti-Palestinian policies.
In February
2013, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) applied to the NYC LGBT Community
Center for space for this reading. But in response to that denial and the two
years history of censorship at the Center, the LGBT community mobilized in
outrage, and overturned the ban!
From Palestinian
Queers for BDS:
‘As Palestinian queers, our
struggle is not only against social injustice and our rights as a queer
minority in Palestinian society, but rather, our main struggle is one against
Israel’s colonization, occupation and apartheid; a system that has oppressed us
for the past 63 years… In the last years Israel has been leading an
international campaign that tries to present Israel as the “only democracy” and
the “gay haven” in the Middle East, while ironically portraying Palestinians,
who suffer every single day from Israel’s state racism and terrorism, as
barbaric and homophobic.’ (pqbds.com)
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