*You have a dirty mind, as many homophobes do.* ** *Being gay and having sex are two separate things.*
On 10/9/10, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > > *"END HOMO/ TRANSPHOBIC APARTHEID IN AMERICA.”* > > WTF???? > > Hey Tom!! > > You (and obviously these three hundred confused individuals who chose to > stage this "Die-In") need to stop thinking about your sexual needs and > gratifications constantly! Maybe you need to get a hobby, or do something > that is separate, distinct and apart from your focus on sex. > > The fact that the term, "Gay" defines you in total, should be troubling in > and of itself. > > Are there no other causes, concerns, or issues that you either support or > that trouble you, other than what revolves around who you choose to hop in > the sack with?? > > Geesh......I feel like I need to go and take a shower!!! > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> LGBT Flash Mob of Hundreds at Grand Central >> October 8 die-in dramatizes violence, bullying facing queer community, >> need for full civil rights protections >> >> >> >> Published: Friday, October 8, 2010 9:55 PM CDT >> BY PAUL SCHINDLER >> >> Print<http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.prt> >> E-mail<http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.eml> >> Comment<http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt#top>(No >> comments posted.) >> Rate >> Text Size >> [image: >> del.icio.us]<http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt>[image: >> digg]<http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt>[image: >> NewsVine]<http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt> >> [image: >> google]<http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&bkmk=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt> >> [image: >> facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt> >> [image: >> *]<http://adsys.townnews.com/c8183535/creative/chelseanow.com/+tools/231542-1278096524.jpg?r=http://etf1928.org/> >> Several hundred LGBT New Yorkers gathered at Grand Central Terminal during >> evening rush hour on Friday, October 8 to conduct what organizers called a >> “Flash Mob: Homophobia Kills Die-In” in the center of the main concourse of >> the nation’s busiest transit hub. >> >> Several minutes after 6, activist Alan Bounville brought his fingers to >> his mouth to issue a loud whistle signaling the start of the action. A crowd >> of at least 300 immediately laid down on the floor, as Bounville and others >> unfurled a 12-foot by 12-foot yellow banner reading: END HOMO/ TRANSPHOBIC >> APARTHEID IN AMERICA.” >> >> The crowd created a blockade for thousands of commuters rushing to and >> from the subways and Metro North commuter trains in the terminal. Police >> ordered participants to disperse or face arrest, while Todd Fernandez and >> Eugene Lovendusky read the names of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender >> victims of murder or of suicide prompted by bullying and violence. As the >> men called out each victim’s name, those on the floor shouted back the first >> name. >> >> As planned, after about three or four minutes on the floor, participants >> got back on their feet, and for several more minutes Fernandez, Lovendusky, >> and other organizers led the crowd in shouts of “Civil Rights Now.” >> >> Bounville and Iana Di Borna, another organizer of the protest, were >> arrested by Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) police and charged >> with misdemeanor obstruction of pedestrian traffic. The two were given desk >> appearance tickets and quickly released. >> >> Activist Ann Northrop said she witnessed a third demonstrator, who she >> knew only by the name Jeff, being taken away by police who said he was >> “inciting” the crowd. The MTA police said it arrested only two people, and >> the NYPD had no record of any arrest made by its officers. Detective Tim >> Duffy, the NYPD’s liaison officer to the LGBT community, said he witnessed >> MTA police escorting a man, without handcuffs, away from the crowd, and said >> he may have been the same individual Northrop saw. Duffy said the lack of >> handcuffs suggested he may not have been arrested. >> >> [image: >> *]<http://adsys.townnews.com/c78558000/creative/chelseanow.com/gay_city_news+instory/201220-1251816687.gif?r=http://www.chelseapiers.com/sc/> >> Fernandez said that MTA police officials had agreed to guidelines by which >> the demonstrators would be able to unfurl their banner from one of two >> balconies with steps leading down to the concourse. At 6 p.m. Friday >> evening, however, NYPD officers were stationed there, and organizers were >> not allowed to use that space. Fernandez also said that the police agreed >> the action could take place without arrests as long as the demonstrators >> limited the time they laid on the floor, as they did. >> >> The action came amidst a nationwide dialogue about a spate of recent >> suicides by young gay men — some as young as 13 — who experienced harassment >> and violence, generally at the hands of school classmates. Though experts >> say that suicides and suicide attempts by queer youth are a persistent >> problem, news that 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University >> freshman, jumped off the George Washington Bridge on September 22, days >> after his roommate and a third student allegedly webcast an intimate dorm >> room encounter he had with another man, galvanized media attention on the >> issue. >> >> During the past week in Manhattan, at least four men were attacked in two >> separate anti-gay >> incidents<http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cae272568b5b913662489.txt>— >> one at the iconic Stonewall Bar on Christopher Street in the West Village, >> and the other on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea. Ben Carver, a 34-year-old resident >> of Washington, DC, was called a “faggot” in a bathroom at the Stonewall >> before being pummeled by two attackers. In Chelsea, a group of men were >> told, “Go home faggots; this is our neighborhood,” before being attacked by >> a larger group who put two of them in the hospital. Two men arrested in the >> Stonewall attack and one in the Chelsea incident have been charged with hate >> crime assaults. Other suspects are sought in connection with the Chelsea >> attack. >> >> Just hours before the Grand Central action, the NYPD announced the arrests >> of seven young men in the Bronx , members of the Latin King Goonies gang, >> who allegedly held three men captive in an empty apartment, forced them to >> confess to homosexual behavior, and then tortured them, cutting one of them >> with a box cutter, and sodomizing two of them, one with a plunger, the other >> with a small baseball bat. >> >> In addition to the action’s focus on anti-LGBT violence and bullying, it >> also called attention to the organizers’ push for federal legislation to >> incorporate anti-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and >> gender identity and expression into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. >> >> Bounville, Di Borna, Fernandez, and Lovendusky are involved with Queer >> SOS! <http://www.queersos.com/>and the American Equality Bill (AEB) >> Project <http://www.aebnow.com/>. For 12 days leading up to the Grand >> Central action, Queer SOS! and the AEB Project have held vigils outside the >> Manhattan election campaign office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, demanding >> that she introduce legislation to amend the 1964 Act. >> >> At the conclusion of the Grand Central action, Fernandez, having witnessed >> two of his fellow activists taken away by police, said of the MTA’s conduct, >> “They have set a horrible precedent today. We will never negotiate with them >> again.” >> >> According to Fernandez, he and fellow activists had extensive discussions >> with top MTA police officials, including Chief Michael Coan and an attorney >> Coan tasked to talk to them. When the activists arrived at Grand Central, >> Fernandez said, it was clear that police intended to breach the agreement >> that had been reached. >> >> Civil rights attorney Yetta Kurland, who was among a group of legal >> observers, said that the MTA police had barricades and plastic handcuffs >> assembled outside the doors of its offices downstairs from the concourse, an >> indication to her that officials had “prior intent” to make arrests. >> >> Kurland also noted that flash mobs of all varieties have become >> commonplace in New York, and that there are “never, never, ever any >> arrests.” >> >> “What is most alarming,” she said, “is that the distinguishing factor here >> is that the demonstration has political content, which you would think would >> afford it greater free speech protection.” >> >> The MTA police press office did not respond to a request for comment and >> Coan did not respond to a Facebook message sent to him. >> >> LGBT activist in the Bronx are planning a protest at *19 Osbourne Place, >> near 179th Street,* where the gang assaults took place, on *Saturday, >> October 9 at 11 a.m.* Demonstrators plan to meet at the *Burnside Avenue >> station on the 4 line at 10:30 t*o walk to the site. Updates on the event >> will be posted to >> facebook.com/zonarosamagazine<http://www.facebook.com/zonarosamagazine> >> . >> >> On *Saturday evening, October 9*, the activist group Queer Rising is >> leading a march from *Ninth Avenue and 25th Street in Chelsea, *where one >> of the weekend attacks took place, to the Stonewall bar. Demonstrators will >> leave the Chelsea intersection at about *8:30 p.m*. Complete information >> is at >> facebook.com/zonarosamagazine#!/event.php?eid=123680477686130<http://www.facebook.com/zonarosamagazine#!/event.php?eid=123680477686130> >> . >> >> More: >> >> http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt >> >> -- >> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. >> Have a great day, >> Tommy >> >> >> -- >> 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/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> >> * It's active and moderated. 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