From a few blocks away, only a narrow red banner could be seen swaying in the breeze at the intersection of Exchange Blvd. and Broad St. At a closer glance, one could make out six to eight well-dressed men, hair gelled to the side, yielding signs reading: "Honk for traditional marriage — 1 man + 1 woman" and "God's marriage = 1 man & 1 woman." But upon closer inspection—-in the form of prying questions posed to the individuals holding the signs—-a message frothed with hatred, bigotry, and a misreading of history was revealed.

Video: Coming Soon!

Additional Information: Creep of the Week: American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property | The Catholic Church Calls for Jihad against The Da Vinci Code | Poland's Sweeping New Anti-Gay Education Bill

On July 6th, Ellen Newberry, a Lecturer & Merrill College Writing Coordinator at UC Santa Cruz, was a guest on Teachers 4 Class War. Newberry is an out faculty member at UCSC. In the interview, Newberry addresses ways to support GLTB folks at work and at school.

These kids wanted to put the "punk" back in "punctuality" so they promptly began at 11:55pm. The first song was by Michael Jackson, the crowd of more than 250 people went crazy. They were kicking up dust and yelling. They had been enduring a costly, corporate 21+ pride for two whole nights, this was there moment, their time to shine.

Several thousand people gathered in Dolores Park on June 26th to demand equality for the transgender community. Beginning at the park they formed a contingent of marchers that made their way through San Francisco's Mission district to 26th and Valencia. This year's march marked San Francisco's sixth year since the event began in 2004 when it was first established to honor Gwen Araujo, a young transgendered woman who was brutally murdered in Newark, California in November of 2002.

Denver, CO (Sunday June 28, 2009) — I arrive outside the regional EPA office just after 2pm. It's the second day of PrideFest, and the far end of the 16th Street Mall is nearly deserted. On the far side of the street, a trumpet player sits on a bench, improvising a slow, sad tune. His name is Joe Ferrone, and his song is an elegy for Appalachia.

Joe and I are here because of the EPA's recent approval of 42 new mountaintop removal sites and Mountain Justice's subsequent call to action.... read more

Friday 6/26: Special 2 hour broadcast! The show is being aired live from Noon to 2 PM (Eastern) on WNYE (91.5 FM) in New York, an NPR-affiliated station.

Some of the line of of speakers include (but not limited to are)
Rod Knoll
Michael Geiger
John Hankins
Edward Murphy

The shows are archived on the PRN site: click "Archives" on the vertical menu and then Gary Null. Shows usually get loaded up by the end of the working day or the following morning at the latest http://www.aidsmythexposed.com | http://www.wewebmagic.com

The Tran's & Womyn's Action Camp is happening now!! Come on out for a day or until Friday.
You can find information on:

workshops:  http://twac.wordpress.com/workshops-2/
directions:  http://twac.wordpress.com/logistics/

The Radical Homosexual Agenda hosted its third parade without a permit to protest the parade permit law passed in New York City, that was deemed unconstitutional by a criminal court judge, but prevents groups of 50 or more from marching together without a permit from the New York Police Department. Photos by Andrew Hinderaker || Report by Radical Homosexual Agenda

On June 11 in Tel Aviv, a group of queer Israeli activists protested the cynical use of gay rights by a conservative American group called "Stand with Us" (SWU). The activists disrupted an event called I-Pride, organized by SWU, exploiting queer issues to support Israel's existence as an apartheid state and its occupation over Palestinians.

Equality Rocks! All ages Concert and DJ Dance Party
to benefit the Queer Ally Coalition/Marriage Equality Contingent at Seattle Pride

Friday, June 19th
9pm | Doors open at 8:30
Hidmo, 2000 S. Jackson
Sliding Scale $5-$10

It is with a heavy heart and a bruised face that I write this letter but I think it's important that my experience be known.

In the early morning hours of Sunday June 14th, I was the victim of a hate crime on the corner of NW 6th and Couch. This happened outside of Casey's, a gay bar where I am a dj and it was 2:30 in the morning, after the bar had closed.

When I came outside to make my way home, I saw that a friend of mine was talking with the Portland Police. She had been punched in the face by a man who had been spouting homophobic remarks at her and another friend of mine. Her nose was broken and the police had arrived to investigate this crime. While I was watching this interaction, a group of men approached the scene also shouting homophobic remarks. I walked up to them to ask them to leave the area and the next thing I remember, I was on the ground with my mouth bleeding. I didn't really know or understand what had happened. I had been punched in the mouth and knocked out.

The Portland Police department, who was on the scene, was completely negligent to my situation. They talked to the guy who said I had started it, yet there wasn't a scratch on him and I was the one on the ground bleeding. As I was sitting on the ground, the police officers refused to let a friend of mine bring me ice for my face, threatening to arrest him if he attempted to approach me.

Friday, June 12 was the second scheduled Free Speech march demanding an end to the recent wave of police dispersals(by force) of unpermitted street marches. This being Pride weekend, queer liberation was the chosen theme, with a focus on targetting "corporate Pride"... Read More | Video via Youtube | "Pride" Wrapup in photos

Related: From Stone Wall on: Going back to go Forward The Childhood of the Revolution | Remembering the Stonewall Rebellion in this week's Socialist WebZine

As New York prepares for LGBTQ pride celebrations, a new case of homophobia-driven police brutality has sobered the city.

The Stonewall Inn, a gay and lesbian neighborhood bar with a large number of African American and Latino patrons, was also well-known as a safe space for those who did not conform to gender norms: butch lesbians, effeminate gay men, and transsexual and transgendered persons before the terms were in popular use. All of these factors brought the police to Stonewall in 1969 for the purpose of illegally raiding the bar, and arresting its occupants -- an action not unknown in New York in the 1960s....

Hundreds of people from across the Midwest and beyond attended the Bash Back! Convergence in Chicago May 28-31. Although reactions to the convergence vary greatly, agreement can be reached on one thing: Saturday night ended in what can only be characterized as an anti-queer police riot. After exiting a dance party at the Belmont el station, the crowd of over 100 soon came under attack from charging police cruisers. No dispersal order was given, but officers soon charged the crowd with batons and fists flailing. When it was over, four people were arrested and several hospitalized. With an international reputation of homophobia and brutality directed at queer and transfolk, the Chicago Police Department may be now be looking at yet another civil suit in the near future.

TCIMC is looking for more accounts from the convergence in Chicago. If you have something to share, please publish it [LINK] (and we'll post a link here), or contact us [LINK]. Thanks!

Read Below: Two accounts from Chicago Indymedia, Article from the Windy City Times, and more

The 17th annual Santa Cruz Dyke March takes place on Saturday, June 6th, the night before Pride. Frootie Flavors, Beaver Fever and Lisa Pawlak are featured at the 2:30pm rally at the Town Clock. There will be a march around 6pm, followed by an after party.

It is indeed hard to escape it. Though the mainstream "straight" media pays it no heed, the gay media is abuzz. This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. What makes Stonewall significant? Was it the first queer voice of the modern era? Certainly not, during the Weidar republic there had been a brief shining moment when significant strides had been made in the city of Berlin (this of course ended very badly, the rise of Adolf Hitler changed the cities "civil union" registry an easy way to identify, locate and round-up large numbers of what was the first modern queer rights movement. Though some fled and even a few waited out the war in hiding in Germany itself (for example the DaDa artist Hannah Hoch). It wasn't even the first time that the subject of gay rights had been advocated. The sisters of Bolita, and the matachine society had been "respectably" (and with all due respect to the immense bravery of those early advocates) quite ignorably picoting in DC, and doing the "letter writing" thing. No, what made Stonewall special, what makes it the Day we remember was that it was the day when queers not only advocated for their rights but refused the model of hetero-superiority. Rather than try to persuade the "big America" that they were deserving of human rights, the Queers of Stonewall stood up to the Cops in the streets of New York and REFUSED to be anything less than human.

A reflection on means and ends.

The bigoted ads [against Proposition 8] were placed on newspaper Web sites in three Eastern states last month — by "Californians Against Hate"!! The ad was rejected by the Kennebec Journal in Maine, which said that the copy "borders on insulting and denigrating a whole set of people based on their religion." Right on, Kennebec Journal!

Photo from Prop 8 Demo in Westwood (part 2)

At 10am on Tuesday May 26th, in a 6-1 decision, the California Supreme Court's ruled in favor of Proposition 8 banning future same-sex marriages but upholding existing same-sex marriages. In the one dissenting opinion, Judge Moreno stated "This could not have been the intent of those who devised and enacted the initiative process. In my view, the aim of Proposition 8 and all similar initiative measures that seek to alter the California Constitution to deny a fundamental right to a group that has historically been subject to discrimination on the basis of a suspect classification, violates the essence of the equal protection clause of the California Constitution and fundamentally alters its scope and meaning."

Demonstrators took to the streets in response, drawing thousands to cities across California and elsewhere in the nation. Coverage from CA: Los Angeles & San Diego | Central CA & San Francisco Bay Area | | | Solidarity Protest Coverage: Washington, DC | Seattle, WA | Rochester, NY

Following the verdict, a rally for national LGBT equality was held on Saturday, May 30. The campaign was designated as "Meet in the Middle for Equality" and began with a symbolic march from Selma, CA to the steps of City Hall in downtown Fresno (see photo). Read More

Past Coverage: Nov8: Thousands Protest Proposition 8; Lawsuit Filed to Prevent Implementation | Nov14: Nationwide Demonstrations For the Right to Marry Set for Saturday | | | Related: "The Mormons are Coming, the Jews are Coming!"

Thousands of marriage equality activists came to Fresno from throughout the state to protest the Supreme Court decision on proposition 8. A 15 mile march for civil rights by about 100 marriage equality activists who walked in the scorching valley heat from Selma to Fresno started the day. About 3,000 people were waiting for them when they arrived at Fresno City Hall. Organizers of today's Meet in the Middle rally chose Fresno because of the need to shift public opinion in the Central Valley on the marriage equality issue. Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage, won by a wide margin in Fresno and other valley towns.

On May 28, the CA Supreme Court upheld the "proposition 8" state constitutional ban on Gay Marriage. Protests broke out across the US, including one here in DC that filled half of Dupont Circle.

About 500 people gathered at Westlake Center on May 26th to express their anger at the California Supreme Court ruling that upheld Prop 8. This decision bans same-sex marriage in California. Among the speakers at the rally were Washington State Senator Ed Murray and Washington State Representative Jamie Peterson.