Comments on: Ruby-Sachs: In Defense of Direct Action

By: MIchelle N

MIchelle N — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:43:43 +0000

LOrion, I caught a news clip on LOGO showing something similar in Chicago. I would show up to protest Westboro homophobes. I hope it catches on.

By: Stuff Queer People Need To Know

Stuff Queer People Need To Know — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:43:41 +0000

We have to make the people in charge pay attention. There was recently a hate crime here and no one heard about it. The blogs covered it days before there was a blip on the news. It wasn’t until we protested that there was even real coverage by the mainstream media.

http://stuffqueerpeopleneedtoknow.wordpress.com/

By: LOrion

LOrion — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:07:02 +0000

Then there is Westboro Baptist Church’s latest demonstration at Harvard Law School.
“Five members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an anti-gay church based in Topeka, Kansas, were met with chants of “Hey hey, ho ho, homophobia has got to go,” by a crowd of HLS students who gathered to protest WBC’s message of hate on Friday, March 20. The Church members, who held signs which read “God Hates Fags” and “Mourn for Your Sins,” protested outside Gannett House, the historic home of the Harvard Law Review.

Police presence was heavy. Dozens of Harvard University Police and Cambridge Police joined forces to maintain order. Those students protesting the presence of the WBC were huddled on the South side of Gannett House and the sidewalk that runs along Massachusetts Avenue was closed to pedestrians. Ambulances and fire equipment lay in waiting, but conflict between the groups was limited to verbal spats and a battle of poster board.

One protestor held a sign mocking the WBC’s message which read, “God strongly dislikes hate.” Others were more traditional messages of tolerance, such as “Harvard is Proud to Be Diverse” and “We’re Here. We’re Queer. Get Over it.”

By: LOrion

LOrion — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:02:06 +0000

Here is ‘direct action’ 7th Grade teacher invites all kids and parents to his commitment ceremony, over 60 will come. His students discuss upcoming event with reporter. 12/yo ‘He’s not gay’, 13 y/o ‘No, he’s bisexual, ask him.’ (Teacher confirms.) THE FUTURE IS HERE.
nytimes.com/2009/03/23/nyregion/23bigcity.html

By: Patrick (gryph)

Patrick (gryph) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:22:43 +0000

Every 3-5 years, whenever the GLBT community feels need for fragrant and flagrant self-flagelation, we bring out the “direct action vs. assimilation” arguement. And in the end, the zealots on either side retreat to their respective corners, and we come to the conclusion that you need both approaches. I’m glad to see that we are getting there a little sooner this time.

I remember the great pioneering trangender activist Connie Norman describing what a day protesting at the state capitol was like. In the morning you show up, make a lot of noise and generally make a nuisance of yourself. Then once you have gotten their attention, you go home, change clothes, take out the piercings, and go back and lobby in a more quieter but no less effective fashion.

Short of armed revolution, thats the way democracy works here in America. Whether the issue is GLBT or the Rutabega Growers Association. Ain’t America just grand? I think so. Sincerely. You should too.

By: Jon in Canada

Jon in Canada — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:26:57 +0000

I have to say that I and others in my country did not finally get our rights and responsibilities under the law by sitting on our hands bemoaning the inequities of life. As some here have said, continue to fight, get in their faces, do not give up. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the fields, we shall fight them in the streets, but we shall never give up, we shall never surrender.

As for the rather humourous if not entirely incoherent postings of what appears to be the resident twat, you know…the one, the only, RJLigier, I must say that your verbose prose of petulant posturing coupled with your obvious neurosis of self denial and loathing, make you more a buffoon to be ridiculed than someone who has anything of value to add to the discussion.

As such, I must, with some degree of reticence, dismiss you as not wothy of this debate. Please do yourself a favour and get a proper education or at least try a bit harder to form more cogent and thought out piffle, since that seems to be all you offer.

By: James Withers

James Withers — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:27:21 +0000

“I work with so many intellectually deficient and attention-deficit disordered LGBT individuals in management, it’s mind boggling.”
You are too funny.

Sincerely,

James

By: RJLigier

RJLigier — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:17:34 +0000

DeaninMI,
Miss Thing….stop projecting, please. I charge more by the hour if you project. Economic apartheid?!?!….are you kidding me? Until 1998, LGBT line could dismiss conservatives for nothing more than LGBT narcisistically hostile and borderline confrontational behavior toward conservatives. In the hard sciences and business, academics, professionalism , and expertise indicate merit based performance and promotion. I work with so many intellectually deficient and attention-deficit disordered LGBT individuals in management, it’s mind boggling. If I wished to remain with the firm, it’s a slam dunk federal lawsuit were I to pursue a management position. Economic apartheid does not exist.

By: Fed Up

Fed Up — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:17:31 +0000

And one other thing, Lead, Follow, or GET THE [HECK] OUT OF THE WAY.

By: Fed Up

Fed Up — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:11:12 +0000

I have been a soldier in the war against homophobia for over 35 years. I am not bloody LIKELY to lay down for those [jerks] now.

While I appreciate your point of view, there are times when a good [punk] slapping is warranted and required for the people standing in our way to equality. I am not now, nor have I ever BEEN afraid to administer it when called for.

(And YES, I am the one who decides when they have it coming, I refuse to wait on a committee to decide for me)