Please Come By The Daily Queer SOS Demonstration Vigil in New York City 10 AM to 6 PM Daily outside Senator Gillibrand's office, 15 W. 26th Street and Broadway. Activists Call for Equality Now and Filing of The American Equality Bill in Congress. Die-in daily at noon. Artists invited to perform.
>From ActOnPrinciples and our friend Tif: How many more must die!? Call for HOMOPHOBIA KILLS Die-IN, every day! <http://www.actonprinciples.org/2010/09/29/how-many-more-must-die-call-for-homophobia-kills-die-in-every-day/> Today, I heard about 3 – THREE – young gay men murdered by homophobia in America. http://www.queerty.com/shock-gay-texas-13-year-old-asher-brown-shoots-himself-in-the-head-after-horrific-school-torment-20100928/ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2010/09/gay-teen-dies-after-10-days-on-life-support-following-suicide-attempt-over-anti-gay-bullying/ http://abcnews.go.com/US/victim-secret-dorm-sex-tape-commits-suicide/story?id=11758716 So I believe we need to have a nationwide “Homophobia-Kills Die-IN” – that demands full federal civil rights protections immediately. The Civil Rights Act is what turned the tide on racism and related deaths and suffering. It will do the same thing for homophobia. And pushing for that will FORCE the conversation about Homophobia that DADT and ENDA could NEVER(and frankly – were designed to avoid). For 3 days in a row – we have had a homophobia-kills die-in in front of Gillibrand’s campaign office – for this exact reason. [image: 6377473] HOMOPHOBIA KILLS. Yet NO ONE is taking about it. And NOTHING we’re debating or pushing for as a movement even touches the topic. EQUAL civil rights DOES – because homophobia is the reason we have been pushed away from those laws. Homophobia is STILL being allowed to exist in groups like the NAACP that has yet to support our inclusion in those laws. And homophobia is the reason our youth are killing themselves and being taunted to death.[image: 7289869] Homophobia is why our community has yet to even demand its own dignity under the Civil Rights Act. YET ENDA and DADT DO NOT EVEN GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS HOMOPHOBIA AS A NATION and nether does the Safe Schools agenda – because they are NOT BIG ENOUGH. And they do NOT THREATEN the homophobia front and center in our nation’s non-discrimination laws, hearts and political organizations. In fact ENDA – is apart from those non-discrimination laws – PRECISELY BECAUSE HOMOPHOBIA says we can not touch our own American civil rights laws – and our own movement has accepted that answer! This is how homophobia affects its vicitms – it robs them of their own sense of entitlement, of their true since of dignity. EVERDAY it is allowed to perpetuate. There is but ONE CAUSE of our suffering and that is HOMOPHOBIA, and there is only ONE LAW that will reject Homophobia – which is still sanctioned by our government’s failure to outlaw it. That law is the Civil Right Act – America’s non-discrimination law. This is the law that says: you are equal and entitled to full equal protection of the laws. This is the law that says homophobia is unacceptable. Until we call the question on homophobia at the root of all wrongs against us – we are avoiding the issue. As long as we avoid the issue, more children will die. It’s that simple. Homophobia KILLS. How much longer must we wait? The answer is right in front of us and so obvious it is obscene that we are not yet demanding it. More: http://www.actonprinciples.org/category/actions/ *Please Come By The Daily Queer SOS Demonstration Vigil in New York City 10 AM to 6 PM Daily outside Senator Gillibrand's office, 15 W. 26th Street and Broadway. Activists Call for Equality Now and Filing of The American Equality Bill in Congress. Die-in daily at noon. Artists invited to perform. * -- Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. Have a great day, Tommy -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
