QEJ Pride March
Do you want to march in the Pride March on Sunday June 26th but don’t have anyone to march with?
Well look no further friend, come join QEJ as we proudly show New York that poor queers are just as important to the movement as anyone else. QEJ staff, volunteers, shelter residents and more will be struttin’ our stuff down 5th ave, and we would absolutely love it if you joined
Meet PROMPTLY 12pm on 39th St btwn. 5th and Madison Ave…look for the QEJ Van
RSVP with Jay at 917 939 2511 or jay@q4ej.org
Kenyon Farrow: Why I Support QEJ
In 2005, I walked into one of QEJ’s Know Your Rights Trainings for 25 LGBT homeless people in our shelter project to lead a resume writing workshop. My life as an activist was changed. I found my political home. And since then, I’ve been with QEJ in many capacities, and most recently as Executive Director.
Next Wednesday will be my last day in the office as Executive Director. Though I will not be paid staff, I am staying with QEJ, and I hope you will too. Please consider making an end of year donation to support economic justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people?
I’m asking for your support because I know, not because it’s my “cause.” I am from Cleveland, OH, and knew many many of the gay, lesbian, bi and trans people in the poor black neighborhood I grew up in. Some of them are family members, some were close family friends. This community of poor and working class queers is where I started when there was no movement reaching out to us, when there weren’t any organizations.
When I came out as a gay man about 17 years ago, in the so-called “Gay 90′s,” I was shocked to find I could not find people like my mother’s best friend “Uncle” Roger, my sister’s friend James, the transgender woman I saw pass by window nearly every day, as part of the movement for LGBT rights.
But everyday at QEJ in our office, at our events, at our shelter groups, I work with people who are much like the kinds of queers people I grew up with, and continue to make up my chosen family. QEJ is more than just an idea, or a set of politics. It is my home. It’s our home, and we need your support to continue our work of building community in order to build a movement, to make real change.
That’s why I support QEJ. And I hope you’ll make a donation, and become a monthly sustainer. Make us your home too.
In struggle,
Kenyon Farrow
Act Queer! Teleconference: Economics: Race, Class, Gender and the Economy
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.
In 2010 all of the Act Queer! telconference series will focus on the economy. As news stories, individuals and organizations have been discussing the drastic effects of the current economic downturn, there has been limited information about how the economy affects low-income people, queer/trans people, immigrants, people with disabilities, people of color, and those of us who fit two or more of those categories. We envision this year-long teleconference series to help all of us understand the economy and capitalism, and to use that knowledge to continue challenging and changing the systems that create poverty and economic injustice in our communities, and to envision economic systems that promote justice, and the health and well being of all people.
Our January 28, 2010 call was the first in this series. It introduced some of the most recent work being done on how the economic crisis is affecting people of color and the LGBT community. This series is a product of a partnership with the Center for Popular Economics. With their expertise these calls will provide some of the latest and most compelling economic speakers and research.
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Alyssa Schneebaum, UMass-Amherst
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Brian Miller, United for a Fair Economy
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