8/13: Raw: Stigma, Gay Men & Unprotected Sex
Thurs Aug 13, 6:30-8:30pm
RAW! The Stigma Associated with Gay Men and Unprotected Sex.
GMHC, 119 West 24th Street, 12th FL. NYC. DOWNLOAD THE FLYER HERE.
Act Queer Teleconference: Queer Immigration & Immigrant Organizing
The purpose of Act Queer! is to connect grassroots LGBTQ racial and economic justice organizations with national queer and/or allied coalitions and organizations to share information and strategies on racial and economic justice research, organizing and advocacy.
Our July 30, 2009 teleconference focused on queer organizing and advocacy on immigration issues, or issues impacting queer immigrants.
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Yasmin Nair, Gender JUST. (Chicago, IL.) Discusses the national immigration policy landscape, and the impact of the “families” and “partner” reunification frame for queer immigrants.
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Nancy Ordover, Researcher/Scholar, Author of American Eugenics, Race, Queer Anatomy and the Science of Nationalism. (New York, NY) Discusses the US ban on HIV-positive immigrants: It’s history and where the current policy stands.
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Materials from Ordover
Priscilla Hale, allgo:a statewide queer people of color organization. (Austin, TX). Discusses the coalition work allgo did in the state of Texas: framing the black/brown conflict in immigration advocacy, and working in coalition with straight-idenitified ally organizations.
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Glenn Magpantay, National Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Alliance (NY/DC/Seattle). Discusses NQAPIA’s queer immigration principles, and the economic/class diversity of API immigrants.
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Materials from NQAPIA:
NQAPIA Principles on LGBT Immigrant Rights
Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, Unid@s:The National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Human Rights Organization (Washington, DC). Discusses the work to build Unid@s and their advocacy work.
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Additional Materials from Jordan T. Garcia, Immigrant Ally Organizing Director, AFSC/Denver, CO.
Queer Immigration Reading List
What’s Immigration Got To Do with Queer Liberation?
8/18: Connecting Our Communities: Welfare System & the Prison Industrial Complex
Connecting Our Communities: Welfare System & the Prison Industrial Complex
Queers for Economic Justice is helping to broaden the current conversation around Reproductive Justice by highlighting the experiences of low-income queer and transgender folks who navigate the welfare system and prison system.
Join Queers for Economic Justice as we begin a dialogue about the connections between the Welfare System and the Prison Industrial Complex. We will focus on reproductive justice in low-income queer and transgender communities and highlight the research and work that is being done to confront the systemic reproductive and sexual violence we face. The event will provide a space for community discussion and allow activists, community organizers and those most impacted by the Welfare System and the Prison Industrial Complex to share their knowledge. Additionally, we will begin brainstorming creative solutions to the problems we face (and overcome) daily.
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Highlighted Speakers Include:
MYA LAYLANI VAZQUEZ, TransJustice at the AUDRE LORDE PROJECT
Mya will be speaking about TransJustice’s campaign against transphobia in the Human Resources Administration.
MISS MAJOR, Organizing Director of Transgender, Gender Variant, & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)
As one of New York’s best known drag queens, Miss Major participated in clashes with the police amid the Stonewall Riots. She was a member of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), and now is the organizing director of the TGIJP in San Francisco, CA and will speak around her work fighting the prison industrial complex.
TERRY BOGGIS, Director of CENTER KIDS, LGBT Community Center
Terry will be speaking about the challenges facing low-income queer and trans folks wanting to parent, and will be sharing information about the services available at Center Kids at the LGBT Center.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
7:00 to 9:00 PM
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor,
New York, NY 10001
Please contact Reina Gossett at rgossett@q4ej.org or 212-564-3608 for more information or to RSVP