I forgot this HuffPo article on some of the activity in San Francisco: 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toshio-meronek/the-year-queers-fought-the-de-politicization-of-pride_b_1631394.html

On 02-Jul-12 17:22, Eleutherios wrote:
> 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.
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