*I am not a Marxist.* ** *Your judgemental and dismissive attitude is quite bad. * ** *Sexuality and having sex are two different things.* ** *Democrats are not Marxists, Socialists, or Communists.* ** *Republicans are misguided corporate 'Sheeple".*
On 10/9/10, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh!! Now I am a homophobe......Typical hate coming from a militant > Marxist with a pro-Gay agenda. When you cannot address the facts or truth, > resort to the name calling and the hate. Class warfare, smear, and of > course, the "homophobe" label. > > Typical. > > > > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *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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