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As a regular blogger on the Huffington Post / Chicago’s website, I recently encountered a situation which I believe is censorship for failing to have a proper “line” on next Tuesday’s elections. As allies of […]
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Once Again, Public Pressure Delivers the Goods Please THANK “Kinetic Playground” Nightclub for Doing the Right Thing! CHICAGO — Through a series of negotiations this week and last and with the threat of a demonstration, […]
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Leading Russian gay activist and former Feast of Fun guest Nikolai Aleksyev was arrested and “disappeared” by Russian police yesterday as he attempted to travel abroad out of one of Moscow’s airports. Under Russian law, […]
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He got out just in time. At the outset of the recession, the city already was a financial basket case, slipping dramatically further once the Olympics announcement was safely out of the way. The huge […]
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In his speech to the nation Tuesday night, President Obama essentially claimed to be ending the U.S. war in Iraq, and preparing to wind up U.S. domination of Afghanistan and by implication, elsewhere. Nothing could […]
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Russian gay leader vows, “Whatever the courts decide, the right to protest is guaranteed under the Russian constitution and we intend to exercise our rights.” U.S. gay activist Andy Thayer says “this Saturday, this gay […]
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While the straight press focuses most of its attention on the death of arch-homophobe Polish President Lech Kaczynski (whom we in GLN picketed when Mayor Daley feted him in Chicago a few years back), people […]
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After years of vilifying gays as disease-prone and child molesters, the website of the Naperville-based anti-gay organization Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) recently became listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law […]
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Last night, President Obama reiterated his pledge to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but as many bloggers have noted, he could have issued a stop/loss order to stop the anti-gay purges on Day 1 when […]
Co-founder of the Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism and the Gay Liberation Network (www.GayLiberation.net), a Chicago-based LGBT direct action group which has been at the forefront of gay rights, anti-police brutality and anti-war organizing. He’s been one of the lead organizers of most of the city’s large anti-war protests for the last several years, including a march of 15,000 on Lake Shore Drive at the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He’s been arrested numerous times in various protests and was recently found not guilty of two felony counts from a January 2008 protest against a Chicago visit by then-President George W. Bush. In May he was among a handful of Western LGBT activists arrested along with dozens of Russians activists at a government-banned gay pride demonstration in Moscow, Russia. He currently is among the activists organizing a march on the Obama 2012 National Campaign Headquarters in Chicago on the 10th anniversary of America’s longest-ever war, the Afghanistan War. He and other activists are also helping organize the huge protests that will confront the May 2012 NATO/G8 meetings in Chicago.
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https://feastoffun.com/topics/news-rumors/2012/01/08/todays-protest-canceled-but-cardinal-georges-apology-to-gays-doesnt-get-to-the-heart-of-the-matter/ Please note that today’s protest is canceled. However, there will be a protest in front of Holy Name Cathedral on Sunday, Feb. 12 — see... » More
I wish it were simply the incompetence of the police. Instead, they directly attacked us, with the fascists getting in their kicks and punches where... » More
By our count, 18 pro-lgbt demonstrators were arrested today (15 Russians and 3 internationals), as were an unknown number of fascists who tried to attack us.... » More
My statement at the Press Conference on the Day Before Moscow Pride 2011 Introduction by Nikolai Alekseev, President of GayRussia: [Switching from Russian to English]…and the third time... » More
http://ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/11/Mar/2302.htm Yes, a nice victory! The only shame is that Apple still hasn’t issued a public apology, let alone acknowledged that they made a mistake in... » More