QEJ Featured on PBS’ In The Life!
PBS’s long-standing, award-winning LGBT broadcast, IN THE LIFE, will be featuring QEJ in its season premiere in October. The episode, entitled Living on the Margins, focuses on the economic struggles of those who are not strongly represented by the mainstream gay community for reasons of gender nonconformity, race, and/or class; in other words, the vast majority of us.
We’re excited not only for the expanded awareness the program will provide, but also to be a part of such a professional, thoughtful, and above all moving program where many of our ally organizations in NYC are also featured including FIERCE, Gays and Lesbians of Bushwick Everywhere (GLOBE), Audre Lorde Project, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
6/28: QEJ Co-Sponsor New Martin Duberman Book Event
Martin Duberman, "Waiting To Land"
Waiting to Land: Celebrating the Work of Martin Duberman in Building a Radical Queer Movement 40 Years after Stonewall
A Book Launch and Panel Discussion
Monday, June 29th, 7pm, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby St, New York, NY 10012
Please join us for a panel discussion and book launch to celebrate the publication of Martin Duberman’s Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Although best known for his acclaimed biographies, historian Martin Duberman is also a renowned memoirist who has plumbed his own life for truths that have meaning for us all. In the bestselling Cures, he carried his story up to 1970, focusing on his fear that homosexuality was pathological and on his desperate search for a therapeutic cure. Duberman’s second autobiographical book, Midlife Queer, centered on the 1970s, by which time he’d thrown off his earlier doubts and become fully engaged in the worlds of gay politics and culture.
Waiting to Land takes Duberman’s story up to the present day. As his public engagement deepens, Duberman finds himself increasingly at odds with the mounting assimilationism of the mainstream gay movement—and with the left itself, which Duberman has come to believe is smugly oblivious to the realities of gay life. Disaffection leads him to till crucial new ground, including the founding of the groundbreaking Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) and serving as an original board member of Queers for Economic Justice.
Interweaving diary entries with letters and with reflections written in 2008, Waiting to Land incisively probes issues of crucial import for everyone. By turns moving, funny, provocative, and profound, this book is an unflinchingly honest and deeply important window into an extraordinary life.
Moderated by Laura Flanders, GRITtv
with
Martin Duberman
Richard Kim, The Nation
Joesph DeFilippis, Queers for Economic Justice
Marcia Gallo, author of Different Daughters
Book signing to follow
Sponsored by
The New Press
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Queers for Economic Justice
The Nation
The Indypendent
