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. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
