There is something nascent going on, for sure. It's not clear how far it'll go or spread, but something remains changed after Occupy.
In Austin, more radical queers "Queer Bombed" pride http://www.queerbomb.org/ and have held alternative events. Austin is one thing but it also spread to a Midwestern city with a southern influence, St. Louis: http://justsomequeers.com/ . There, they crashed the Pride parade with banners denouncing rainbowashing (one with a large penis spooging "Sponsor this!") and also dropped banners from buildings with signs such as "No Pride In War", "Be a Movement, Not a Market", "Politicians: Gay for a Day", and "Free CeCe" (as in CeCe McDonald https://supportcece.wordpress.com/ ). They also disseminated some literature on the streets. There have been some actions around Bradley Manning around the country. Alan Turing's centennial birthday was also the Saturday of pride weekend for many cities (23 Jun). The Bay Area certainly has a variety of people but push back turning its attention mainstream events as far as I know has been somewhat limited --thus far. To an extent there is more inclusion and variety there in the first place, but there's also a corporatized more conservative element. Scott On 02-Jul-12 17:07, raghu wrote: > Thanks for this. I'll definitely check it out. > > It is interesting that both these interviews should come out at around > the same time. I wonder if this is a sign of some push-back within the > queer community against the gay conservative agenda? > -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
