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Hateful father tortures his gay son

2008-01-23T18:41:17Z

Please help me get this video off YouTube. Some masked sicko fundamentalist is talking about how he wants to change his gay son and how evil gay people are. I flagged it multiple times by refreshing the page. I also made a bunch of comments to this sick fuck. I don't know if it will do any good, but I'm going to keep trying. I just wish I could help his son.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyFB0DuQ9Q

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No To Homophobe Ron Paul, How We Can Really End the War

2008-01-12T07:41:16Z

"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it." Socialist Anti-war Candidate Eugene Debs (who garnered nearly a million votes while he sat in prison for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War One).

"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action" wrote Ron Paul, who voted against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act in Congress, the act that gave Blacks the right to vote, quote from his “Ron Paul Newsletter”.

No to NYC Indymedia Censorship, How We Can Really End the War

By STEVEN ARGUE

Claiming that only an alliance with Ron Paul conservatives can end the war, New York City Indymedia volunteers have allowed blatant slander against Liberation News and have censored attempts to respond to those lies. Among the slanders posted were accusations that Liberation News is opposed to Ron Paul because we support Hillary Clinton and her healthcare program. I tried posting the following response, but it was censored on the site:

Ron Paul supporter: “it's pointed out that yes Ron Paul is a racist but Stevies candidate Hillary is even worse.”

Steven Argue: “I don’t support Hillary Clinton. Never have, but you don’t listen. This is pure slander.”

They then repeat their slander that I support Hillary Clinton for her healthcare plan saying, “It's pointed out that Stevie is willing to sacrifice liberty for a bogus health care plan”

Steven Argue: “Hillary Clinton opposes both socialized medicine and single payer healthcare. She supports insurance company healthcare, the kind that is killing untold millions in the United States. This is one of many reasons I oppose her.”

“And no, I don't see Clinton as a first step towards socialized medicine. Her promise to force people to buy insurance has nothing in common with socialized medicine, nor partially socialized medicine (i.e. single payer). I’m clear about this in my article:

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It, By STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php

“As for Ron Paul, he wants to privatize everything, including public education, Social Security, and Medicare, eliminate the Voting Rights Act and Roe V Wade in the name of "states rights", signed on to the "Marriage Protection Act", would eliminate every environmental and labor protection, etc. etc. etc. This is a prescription for the slavery of the majority to protect the “liberty” of a tiny handful of capitalists to exploit.

“I oppose both Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul. But I’ve already made that clear as being my position. These accusations are slanderous.”

Ron Paul supporter: “Then Stevie moves the goal posts again. Waaa. He's being censored.”

Steven Argue: “I repeatedly posted a response to the slander that I support Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan, and the response is censored every time. I have no motive to make that up. I mentioned it because I wanted people to see my response. Frankly, I’m quite surprised it is happening. Let’s see if this one goes up.”

That response, as I feared, was also censored. Revealing the reasons behind the Ron Paul censorship at the site, the Ron Paul backers posted the following:

“Get off your sectarianism.

“What you don’t get is that there are only two ways we're going to end the occupation of Iraq:

“1.) A recession, and a bad one.

“2.) Convincing the vast majority of conservative Americans it's wrong. Ron Paul reaches these people. The guy with the Free Mumia shirt selling the "Socialist Worker" doesn't.

“To get anything done in a democracy you're going to have to work with people you don't agree with and people you might not even like. People in grown up countries do this all the time. They're called "coalitions".

“The Labor Party in Israel, for example, makes alliances with the ultra orthodox. The Liberal Democrats have made common cause with the Tories in the UK. The left made common cause with Vicente Fox to get the PRI out of power in Mexico.

“It's only in the puritan USA where everybody thinks you have to like all your political allies and agree with them on everything.”

Besides the fact that the majority of Americans already oppose the war; and besides the fact that these points show a total lack of understanding of the bourgeois nature of the coalitions in the countries mentioned; and besides showing a total lack of understanding of what it will take to end the war (I discuss this at the end of the article); New York City Indymedia’s lack of confidence in the ability of people to change has caused them to build a coalition with a capitalist politician who is a racist, homophobic, anti-worker, anti-environmental, bible thumping, sexist, anti-labor, anti-poor, free-market privatization fanatic. On top of that, they censor the left in order to achieve that coalition.

While a Ron Paul presidency would likely end the war, at what price would this come?

Ron Paul uses the term liberty a lot, so let’s take a look at what he means by liberty.

The liberty Ron Paul demands is:

The liberty of the capitalists to exploit without labor laws and environmental protections;

The "state’s right” to prevent Blacks from voting without the interference of the Voting Rights Act (voted against its renewal in Congress);

The "states right" to ban abortions without the interference of Roe v Wade;

The freedom of the government to deny same-sex rights (was an original sponsor of the "Marriage Protection Act");

The freedom of children not to attend schools (would abolish public education);

The freedom of the elderly and disabled to starve (would abolish Social Security);

The freedom of the sick to die (would abolish Medicare);

The freedom of the U.S. to destroy the planet without even the most basic limits on carbon emissions (opposes signing on to Kyoto and all other carbon limitations);

This is, in short, the liberty of a wealthy minority to make their money from the exploitation of labor and the environment with zero interference from labor laws, environmental laws, and the IRS. While his program is liberty for a minority of rich white heterosexual males, it is slavery for the majority.

Simply put, Ron Paul’s promises to end the war are not enough when one looks at the fact that he would eliminate two centuries of hard fought social progress in the United States.

Some of the anti-war backers of Ron Paul argue that we don’t have to worry about these things because Ron Paul will never be elected. They think that backing his campaign is a way to win over his supporters. What is clear is that such arguments could only come from people who are utterly lost and rudderless, which leaves unclear the question of what they are winning Ron Paul supporters over to. They are supporting a candidate whose program is George Wallace on crack cocaine! Yet, the ultimate absurdity is the fact that they are backing a candidate whose most reassuring feature is that he won’t get elected! Is this point lost on these people? And is the chance that their support may help him get elected a chance they really want to take? Nobody thought that third party candidate Jesse (the body) Ventura would get elected in Minnesota either, but he was, and as soon as he was elected he discarded his libertarian values on drug legalization and prostitution and instead proceeded to carrying out attacks on labor and carrying out disastrous cuts in education and other social spending.

Others argue that if Ron Paul is elected, he will easily be able to pull the troops out of Iraq, but congress will block him on the other issues. There is no doubt that they would block parts of Ron Paul’s program in order to prevent the social unrest such measures would cause, but with the ruling class’s desire to step up the exploitation of labor and the environment through eliminating regulation and through privatization, there can be little doubt that if he is able to maintain his presidency without being shot, aspects of Ron Paul’s domestic program would be implemented.

Today, in the United States we have two rightwing capitalist parties that rule. The activists who run New York Indymedia are floating around utterly lost and rudderless. On the one hand, their anarchist philosophy prohibits them from putting forward their own leadership or supporting socialist candidates; and on the other hand, they are stuck in the “real politic” of supporting “lesser evil” capitalist politicians. It is these characteristics that made them susceptible to being swept up on the Ron Paul band wagon. Despite their “libertarian” values of “freedom”, they have now taken this to the point where they are even willing to censor critics of Ron Paul on their website.

While Ron Paul, the only Republican candidate opposed to the war, is not worth supporting, the front running Democrats are also very bad. Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, are all pro-war. Both Edwards and Clinton voted for the war. Obama supporters claim that Obama never supported the war. While Obama was not yet in the Senate at the time of the Iraq war vote, Obama, Edwards, and Clinton have all voted for war appropriations. This puts them all in the position of having supported the war. Over a million Iraqis are dead due to the U.S. invasion and occupation, and billions of dollars have been squandered. Obama, by helping pay for the war, has his hands in this mass murder just as Clinton and Edwards do.

Obama’s Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 supposedly would have begun troop withdrawal in May 2007. Yet, it didn't call for full nor immediate withdrawal. In addition, under the bill, the withdrawal could be halted if the Iraqi government met a number of criteria laid out by the Bush administration. These included a broad number of things such as changes in the use of oil revenue, government reforms, an end to sectarian violence, and other economic and reconstruction criteria. In Obama’s bill we have a crystal ball into the future. The excuses laid out in the bill will be heard once again as Obama, Clinton, or Edwards explain why they are keeping the troops in Iraq for their entire presidency; that is unless other actions are taken by the people to stop the war.

This brings us to the fundamental question of how to stop the war. If we are to listen to the Ron Paul censors / supporters at NYC Indymedia the only thing we can do to stop the war is support Ron Paul or hope for (pray for?) economic collapse. Yet, this ignores other less damaging possibilities. These include the troops refusing to fight, a general strike, strikes against the movement of war materials, or socialist revolution.

1. The troops refusing to fight. This worked in the struggle to end the U.S. aggression against Vietnam. It was the socialist movement who were the primary organizers of the anti-Vietnam War movement. That movement, immediately after the government’s murders at Kent State in May 1970 had 8 million students out on strike, and some Universities, such a Berkley, were taken over by students and faculty as anti-war universities. After May 1970, the majority of those drafted were already opposed to the war before they got to Vietnam. Refusal to fight was widespread, and the fragging of pro-war officers was common. Nixon could not continue to wage a war with soldiers who refused to fight. This, along with the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese, brought an end to the war in Vietnam.

Troops refusing to fight also helped bring an end to Russian involvement in the First World War, and helped bring down two pro-war governments in 1917.

2. A general strike or strikes against the movement of war materials. Strikes with such political demands have a long history of success. France has many good social programs because the workers there were willing to shut down their country to achieve them; and they are still willing to do the same to protect those hard fought gains.

3. Socialist revolution. The October Russian Revolution achieved an end to Russian involvement in the First World War. This was a good thing, despite the undemocratic nature of the revolution. Learning from those lessons, Liberation News opposes the dictatorial system of one party rule and raises the banner of revolutionary democratic socialism, while at the same time learning from many of the revolutionary strategies of Lenin and Trotsky.

Protests, pickets, information distribution, building a socialist movement, and answering pro-Ron Paul and pro-Obama-Clinton-Edwards propaganda all help towards building the momentum needed in achieving the kinds of actions that can end the war. Putting support behind Ron Paul only helps an extreme rightwing movement achieve the mantel of leadership for an anti-war sentiment that already represents majority public opinion. In addition, backing a guy like Ron Paul who just crossed a picket line to appear on Jay Lenno’s “Tonight Show” destroys the anti-war strategy of reaching out to the working class, as does backing a racist candidate like Ron Paul hurt the ability to reach out to the multi-racial working class.

No to the Democrats and Republicans!

U.S. Out of Iraq Now!

No to Insurance Company Healthcare, For Socialized Medicine!

Save the Planet, Curb Carbon Emissions Now!

Vote Socialist, Build the Labor Movement, Build the Anti-War Movement, Build the Socialist Movement.

[Note, small changes were made to the response that was censored at NYC Indymedia to make it more readable within the format of this article. Those wishing to see the original version will be given it upon request. Likewise, anyone wishing further sources will be provided them upon request]

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The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat

2008-01-07T18:44:11Z

The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat

By STEVEN ARGUE

For the most part the Iowa caucuses were business as usual for the Democrat and Republican Parties. Among the Democrats, “Anti-war” and “pro-single payer health care” Democrat Dennis Kucinich put his support behind pro-war anti--single payer health care, Barrack Obama. Yet on the far right, anti-war Libertarian and Republican Ron Paul gained a stunning 10% of the vote.

Seeing the failure of the Democrats to deliver a candidate worth supporting; some left leaning individuals have been suggesting support to Ron Paul. One is anti-war Vietnam veteran Stan Goff, who suggested in his January 4, 2008 article ”Monkey Wrenching the System, Ron Paul’s Revolution” that people vote in the primaries for Ron Paul, switching party registration right away if they live in a state where such a move is necessary to vote in the Republican primaries.

At the root of the Ron Paul "revolution" is the dismantling of Social Security and the Department of Education as well as other basic social programs, and the elimination of worker and environmental protections. Advances like single payer health care? No way. Ron Paul's message is that you need to take care of yourself, and that there shouldn't be such government programs, nor such interference with private profit. While he puts forward reasons for not supporting going to war abroad, his domestic policies would ignite civil war at home.

In addition to pretending he's against all government, he's for the continued ban on same-sex marriage. He was one of the original co-sponsors of the "Marriage Protection Act".

On abortion, Ron Paul is against it and puts forward a “state rights” argument. It took the national Roe v Wade decision to legalize abortion. Getting rid of national protections for a woman’s right to choose is one way to move towards the banning of abortions.

In addition to his opposition to a woman’s right to choose, Ron Paul opposes any protections for women being sexually harassed on the job, saying they should just quit.

He's also a religious extremist who thinks that creationism should be taught in the schools.

On race, Ron Paul was one of 33 Congress members to vote against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, an act that was first passed to give Blacks in the south the right to vote. On a similar note, he says the Civil Rights Act violates the Constitution and impedes on individual liberties as well as states rights. Once again “state rights” are being used to defend Ron Paul’s racist and sexist positions. Speaking of Blacks in Washington DC he states in campaign literature, "95 percent of African Americans in are semi-criminal or entirely criminal".

Anyone who votes against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act is a racist. And you can spare me the Civil War era “states rights” rhetoric. Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army, including 200,000 Black soldiers, smashed the southern slavocracy, and this was a tremendous step forward. More recently the Voting Rights Act was passed, but if it were up to Ron Paul, it would be abolished.

No wonder the American Nazi Party has close relations with him (see letter from Nazi Commander Bill White below). In addition, Ron Paul has the support of other white supremacists such as David Duke, and has knowingly taken donations from former KKK Grand Wizard Don Black.

Hell would freeze over before I'd support Ron Paul. And being an atheist; that will be a long time.

There are plenty of candidates to the left of the Democrats worth considering supporting who oppose the war, would preserve public education and Social Security, who would provide single payer or socialized medicine, and who aren’t raving racist, homophobic, and sexist “Libertarian” fanatics. Why not look at them rather than someone from the loony right?

I discuss some of the campaigns that may be worth supporting in the following article:

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States,
And the Struggle to Achieve It
By STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php

Or here is a different version of the same article:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/93820.html

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American Nazi Party Chief says Ron Paul is one of us

Bill White, commander of the American National Socialist Worker’s Party, aka The American Nazi Party, wrote the following on the Nazi Vanguard News Network:

Comrades:

I have kept quiet about the Ron Paul campaign for a while, because I didn’t see any need to say anything that would cause any trouble. However, reading the latest release from his campaign spokesman, I am compelled to tell the truth about Ron Paul’s extensive involvement in white nationalism.

Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays. This is part of a dinner that was originally organized by Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis and Joe Sobran, and has since been mostly taken over by the Council of Conservative Citizens.

I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy.

For his spokesman to call white racialism a “small ideology” and claim white activists are “wasting their money” trying to influence Paul is ridiculous. Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position.

I don’t know that it is necessarily good for Paul to “expose” this. However, he really is someone with extensive ties to white nationalism and for him to deny that in the belief he will be more respectable by denying it is outrageous — and I hate seeing people in the press who denounce racialism merely because they think it is not fashionable.

Bill White, Commander
American National Socialist Workers Party

*********
Poor Bill White. He’s having trouble with his brand of racism, anti-Semitism, mass extermination, and genocide not being "in fashion". But hey, you've got to thank the knuckleheaded Nazi for confirming our suspicions on Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan! -Steven Argue

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Lesbians sentenced for self-defense. FREE THEM NOW!

2007-10-21T20:22:43Z

FREE THEM NOW!
Lesbians sentenced for self-defense
All-white jury convicts Black women

By Imani Henry
New York

Published Jun 21, 2007 2:58 AM
On June 14, four African-American women—Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24)—received sentences ranging from three-and-a-half to 11 years in prison. None of them had previous criminal records. Two of them are parents of small children.

Their crime? Defending themselves from a physical attack by a man who held them down and choked them, ripped hair from their scalps, spat on them, and threatened to sexually assault them—all because they are lesbians.

The mere fact that any victim of a bigoted attack would be arrested, jailed and then convicted for self-defense is an outrage. But the length of prison time given further demonstrates the highly political nature of this case and just how racist, misogynistic, anti-gay, anti-youth and anti-worker the so-called U.S. justice system truly is.

The description of the events, reported below, is based on written statements by a community organization (FIERCE) that has made a call to action to defend the four women, verbal accounts from court observers and evidence from a surveillance camera.

The attack

On Aug. 16, 2006, seven young, African-American, lesbian-identified friends were walking in the West Village. The Village is a historic center for lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) communities, and is seen as a safe haven for working-class LGBT youth, especially youth of color.

As they passed the Independent Film Cinema, 29-year-old Dwayne Buckle, an African-American vendor selling DVDs, sexually propositioned one of the women. They rebuffed his advances and kept walking.

“I’ll f— you straight, sweetheart!” Buckle shouted. A video camera from a nearby store shows the women walking away. He followed them, all the while hurling anti-lesbian slurs, grabbing his genitals and making explicitly obscene remarks. The women finally stopped and confronted him. A heated argument ensued. Buckle spat in the face of one of the women and threw his lit cigarette at them, escalating the verbal attack into a physical one.

Buckle is seen on the video grabbing and pulling out large patches of hair from one of the young women. When Buckle ended up on top of one of the women, choking her, Johnson pulled a small steak knife out of her purse. She aimed for his arm to stop him from killing her friend.

The video captures two men finally running over to help the women and beating Buckle. At some point he was stabbed in the abdomen. The women were already walking away across the street by the time the police arrived.

Buckle was hospitalized for five days after surgery for a lacerated liver and stomach. When asked at the hospital, he responded at least twice that men had attacked him.

There was no evidence that Johnson’s kitchen knife was the weapon that penetrated his abdomen, nor was there any blood visible on it. In fact, there was never any forensics testing done on her knife. On the night they were arrested, the police told the women that there would be a search by the New York Police Department for the two men—which to date has not happened.

After almost a year of trial, four of the seven were convicted in April. Johnson was sentenced to 11 years on June 14.

Even with Buckle’s admission and the video footage proving that he instigated this anti-gay attack, the women were relentlessly demonized in the press, had trumped-up felony charges levied against them, and were subsequently given long sentences in order to send a clear resounding message—that self-defense is a crime and no one should dare to fight back.

Political backdrop of the case

Why were these young women used as an example? At stake are the billions of dollars in tourism and real estate development involved in the continued gentrification of the West Village. This particular incident happened near the Washington Square area—home of New York University, one of most expensive private colleges in the country and one of the biggest employers and landlords in New York City. The New York Times reported that Justice Edward J. McLaughlin used his sentencing speech to comment on “how New York welcomes tourists.” (June 17)

The Village is also the home of the Stonewall Rebellion, the three-day street battle against the NYPD that, along with the Compton Cafeteria “Riots” in California, helped launch the modern-day LGBT liberation movement in 1969. The Manhattan LGBT Pride march, one of the biggest demonstrations of LGBT peoples in the world, ends near the Christopher Street Piers in the Village, which have been the historical “hangout” and home for working-class trans and LGBT youth in New York City for decades.

Because of growing gentrification in recent years, young people of color, homeless and transgender communities, LGBT and straight, have faced curfews and brutality by police sanctioned by the West Village community board and politicians. On Oct. 31, 2006, police officers from the NYPD’s 6th Precinct indiscriminately beat and arrested several people of color in sweeps on Christopher Street after the Halloween parade.

Since the 1980s there has been a steady increase in anti-LGBT violence in the area, with bashers going there with that purpose in mind.

For trans people and LGBT youth of color, who statistically experience higher amounts of bigoted violence, the impact of the gentrification has been severe. As their once-safe haven is encroached on by real estate developers, the new white and majority heterosexual residents of the West Village then call in the state to brutalize them.

For the last six years the political LGBT youth group FIERCE has been at the forefront of mobilizing young people “to counter the displacement and criminalization of LGBTSTQ [lesbian, gay, bi, two spirit, trans, and queer] youth of color and homeless youth at the Christopher Street Pier and in Manhattan’s West Village.” (www.fiercenyc.org) FIERCE has also been the lead organization supporting the Jersey Seven and their families.

The trial and the media

Deemed a so-called “hate crime” against a straight man, every possible racist, anti-woman, anti-LGBT and anti-youth tactic was used by the entire state apparatus and media. Everything from the fact that they lived outside of New York, in the working-class majority Black city of Newark, N.J., to their gender expressions and body structures were twisted and dehumanized in the public eye and to the jury.

According to court observers, McLaughlin stated throughout the trial that he had no sympathy for these women. The jury, although they were all women, were all white. All witnesses for the district attorney were white men, except for one Black male who had several felony charges.

Court observers report that the defense attorneys had to put enormous effort into simply convincing the jury that they were “average women” who had planned to just hang out together that night. Some jurists asked why they were in the Village if they were from New Jersey. The DA brought up whether they could afford to hang out there—raising the issue of who has the right to be there in the first place.

The Daily News reporting was relentless in its racist anti-lesbian misogyny, portraying Buckle as a “filmmaker” and “sound engineer” preyed upon by a “lesbian wolf pack” (April 19) and a “gang of angry lesbians.” (April 13)

Everyone has been socialized by cultural archetypes of what it means to be a “man” or “masculine” and “woman” or “feminine.” Gender identity/expression is the way each indivdual chooses or not to express gender in their everyday lives, including how they dress, walk, talk, etc. Transgender people and other gender non-conforming people face oppression based on their gender expression/identity.

The only pictures shown in the Daily News were of the more masculine-appearing women. One of the most despiciable headlines in the Daily News, “‘I’m a man!’ lesbian growled during fight,” (April 13) was targeted against Renata Hill, who was taunted by Buckle because of her masculinity.

Ironically, Johnson, who was singled out by the judge as the “ringleader,” is the more feminine of the four. According to the New York Times, in his sentencing remarks, “Justice McLaughlin scoffed at the assertion made by ... Johnson, that she carried a knife because she was just 4-foot-11 and 95 pounds, worked nights and lived in a dangerous neighborhood.” He quoted the nursery rhyme, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” (June 15)

All of the seven women knew and went to school with Sakia Gunn, a 19-year-old butch lesbian who was stabbed to death in Newark, N.J., in May 2003. Paralleling the present case, Gunn was out with three of her friends when a man made sexual advances to one of the women. When she replied that she was a lesbian and not interested, he attacked them. Gunn fought back and was stabbed to death.

“You can’t help but wonder that if Sakia Gunn had a weapon, would she be in jail right now?” Bran Fenner, a founding member and co-executive director of FIERCE, told Workers World. “If we don’t have the right to self-defense, how are we supposed to survive?”

National call to action

While racist killer cops continue to go without indictment and anti-immigrant paramilitary groups like the Minutemen are on the rise in the U.S., The Jersey Four sit behind bars for simply defending themselves against a bigot who attacked them in the Village.

Capitalism at its very core is a racist, sexist, anti-LGBT system, sanctioning state violence through cops, courts and its so-called laws. The case of the Jersey Four gives more legal precedence for bigoted violence to go unchallenged. The ruling class saw this case as a political one; FIERCE and other groups believe the entire progressive movement should as well.

Fenner said, “We are organizing in the hope that this wakes up all oppressed people and sparks a huge, broad campaign to demand freedom for the Jersey Four.”

FIERCE is asking for assistance for these young women, including pro-bono legal support, media contacts and writers, pen pals, financial support, and diverse organizational support. For details, visit www.fiercenyc.org.

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Sk8er Community rife with homphobia... I'm fucking changing that...

2007-10-21T02:10:05Z

Sk8ers constantly use terms like "gay" and "fag" as put downs. I'm fucking sick of it. All the male-dominated spaces I've been in (martial arts, the locker room... surprisingly, not the science lab), being gay is the ultimate put down. I'm used to operating in these spaces. I'm used to changing people's concepts of being queer. The only weapon I got is sneaking up on them, becoming friends, and then coming out. It works and it works well. Some of my strongest queer supporters are my str8 buds from those places. But, it's slow. It only works person-by-person, and only with those with whom I become friends. Anyone come up with any faster/better methods of getting hets to put down their homophobia?

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Violent homophobic videos on YouTube

2007-10-20T23:01:57Z

Please help me flag these two videos for encouraging antigay violence and killing of gay men. Flag them for hate speech and graphic violence. You don't have to subject yourself to watching them, just trust me, they're bad. I flagged the Toxic Avenger video several times in the last couple of months but it's still there and still toxic. I'm trying to figure out how to contact YouTube directly, but they don't make it easy. If someone can figure that out, please us know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY5vNSTgduI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQHq2Apaks8&mode=related&search=

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Zombie Alert Tonight Civic Center 7:30pm

2007-10-11T22:39:32Z

Good citizens of San Francisco, this is your FINAL WARNING.

There will be a ZOMBIE ATTACK TONIGHT!!!

When: 7:30pm Thursday 10/11
Wear: Duct tape on torso to indicate participation
Where: The NW corner of the Main Library
Larkin Street, by Fulton
The large metal sculpture (aka "The Double-L Gyratory Zomby Attractor")
Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/2xoj6u

Many of you were already taking precautions to stay far far far away
from that area already due to the San Francisco MAYORAL DEBATE going on
at the EXACT SAME TIME. Hopefully the attack will be subdued before the
the debate is completed and the hundreds of attendees leave the building
through the single exit pointed directly at Larkin and Fulton.

Those good citizens, though likely disenfranchised and disillusioned,
are not disembrained, and may thus prove IRRESISTABLE to the shambling
cerebrophillic horde.

If defeat is unsuccessful, an unknown party has offered to capture as
many zombies possible inside a bus, and drive them all to a classified
area (in the Mission) for complimentary "embalming fluid" afterwards.

- - - - - - -

A recap of basic zombie mob procedures & etiquette:

Show up at the meeting point on time. Arrive dressed as either a zombie
(fake blood, torn clothing, vacant stare) or a zombie victim (place a
piece of duct tape somewhere visible upon your person, and wear clothes
that you do not mind having torn and bloodied). Act like zombies. Attack
and "convert" victims. (If you have it, bring extra blood and makup for
conversions.) Shamble where the mob shambles. Have fun, but be
respectful of innocent bystanders and private property.

1. If you are wearing duct tape on your torso, the mob will attack you,
ruin your clothes, eat your brains.
2. Zombies will not get blood on innocent bystanders or their things.
3. Zombies will leave private property reasonably soon after being asked.
4. Zombies who don’t exhibit these behaviors will be beaten into shape
by their fellow horde.

More information can be found at www.eatbrains.com

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homophobic troll on tribe

2007-09-28T05:41:54Z

we may want to administer some action on this troll:

http://people.tribe.net/26cc8cc2-3e56-4797-866b-c07347b1f15f

he's been spamming a lot of the gay tribes with fundamentalist, homophobic nonsense all day.

posted in Guerilla Queer Tribe - 4 replies

STIFFYLUBE: "Horny Men & Dirty Boys" Summer Fun-Raiser

2007-07-17T15:20:35Z

Horny Men & Dirty Boys - Summer Fun-Rasier Party

** FEATURING **

sex, music, visuals, refeshments, hot tub,
free clothes check and more!

** AND **

Date a Porn Star Raffle
That's right, we're pimpin out a stable of porn stars just for you! Featuring men from Treasure Island Media and Raging Stallion!

Deepest Deepthroat in SF Contest
We're on a hunt for the best sword swallower in the world, and you're invited to show us your skills.

** INFO **

saturday, july 21, San Francisco
10pm -> sunrise

directions/location:
www.getingetoffgetout.com

$10 = uniform + drag + costume + playawear
$20 = streetwearr

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Lambda Youth Project Gay Prom 2007 in Hayward, CA

2007-03-06T21:47:40Z

I am going to volunteer for the Gay Prom again. It is an annual event by and for all Bay Area youth, held in Hayward, and inviting youth up to age 20 from all over the Bay. There are many parts we adults can play in making this a safe and fun environment for LGBTQQ youth in the Bay Area, from being chaperone the night of the event (Saturday June 9, 2007), to raising money for poor kids to attend, to updating their webpages with current info.

I have volunteer applications with me or you can visit

www.pacificcenter.org/queeryouth.html for some information. They haven't posted specifics yet for this year.

or request a volunteer packet at: info@gayprom.org

posted in Guerilla Queer Tribe - 8 replies

guerrilla street party

2007-02-28T04:12:07Z

I think we should escape the yahoos by moving the entire Castro Halloween Street Party over to Oakland.

posted in Guerilla Queer Tribe - 13 replies

I FINALLY MADE IT IN PORN

2007-02-16T03:00:28Z

THATS RIGHT EVERYONE IM OUT OF THE ARMY AND ITS FINAL AND AND INTO THE PORN INDUSTRY ITS ALL HARDCORE TATTOOED BADBOYS LIKE ME
COPY AND PASTE THE LINK TO MY MYSPACE ACCOUNT HIT GO DIRECTLY AND IT WILL TAKE YOU THERE AND CLICK ON THE HOLE AND A HEARTBEAT BANNERS
ALSO CHECK OUT MY XPEEPS FOR SOME GOOD FREE NUDES
http://www.myspace.com/rickysinz
TAKE IT EASY AND KEEP IN TOUCH
AND IF YOU HAVE MY SPACE OR XPEEPS ADD ME AS A FRIEND

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BOHEMIAN CARNIVAL - Feb 17 - Join the Indie Circus Revolution, or/and we'll eat you!

2007-02-14T19:32:10Z

Good gawd, people, looky what we've found: It's a kaleidoscope with a revolution inside. Here...hold our circus: Twist it, turn it, flip it upside down, straddle it, cross your eyes, lick the lens, eat it -- it's your toy, so play away. Act now and receive a mini-series of post-event dream spectaculars at no additional cost, delivered directly to your brain in the comfort of your bed.

We recommend buying yourself advance tickets for this particular adventure. The pace has picked up for ye ole Bohemian Carnival, and this month promises to be one of the finest acid trips you've never been on.

Saturday, February 17, 2007
DNA Lounge
375 11th St. between Folsom and Harrison, SF
9pm - late; 21+
Tix: $15 in advance (thru www.dnalounge.com), $20 at the door

With your hosts:

Vau de Vire Society - www.vaudeviresociety.com
GOOFERMAN - www.gooferman.com

And special guests:

Kid Beyond - www.kidbeyond.com
Cirque Berzerk - www.cirqueberzerk
Xeno - www.xenodrome.com
Laird - www.djlaird.com
Majitope - www.lowprolounge.com/booking.html
The Nekyia - www.thenekyia.org
Klown Kollective - www.klownkollective.com
Shrine - Live painting and circus therapy sessions
...and an ever-morphing cast of characters and charismatics

PLUS:

The Photoboof - www.photoboof.com
Peepshow Minigolf – www.peepshowminigolf.com
The Bumblefumbler - Dozen-orificed human grope box
The Insta-Klown Booth - On-the-fly klownification chop shop
And much Much MO’

BOHEMIAN CARNIVAL in the news:

www.sfbg.com/entry.php

www.examiner.com/a-515122~...style.html

- - - - - -

All the latest: BOHEMIANCARNIVAL.NET

Thanks for your support -

Boenobo the klown and Mike Gaines
Co-Producers

Presented by Vau de Vire, Circus Metropolus, and bi-polar productions

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Honk if you love Girlie Men!!

2006-11-07T04:50:06Z

Here's a tribe just begging for a makeover. It's called "No Girlie Men", and is for breeder girls who want to reinforce tired old rigid gender ideas of "real men" and includes some gay guys with masculinity issues/internalized homophobia.
http://nogirliemen.tribe.net/?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B010707e2-aff8-4aee-a9bd-d97250176d8d%5D
I've already flagged their main pic for being offensive. I don't know how many flags it takes to get something removed, but apparently, from what others have said, it takes only one. However, multiple flags would get the message across loud & clear.
Let's help these poor, helpless breeder females evolve and find their power (and maybe forget about men altogether!)

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radical gender queer ftm dude seeking play partners and compadres

2006-08-20T18:37:22Z

living in sac but all over the place on the weekends.
looking for safe, sane and conscentual play partners of all walks of life.
especailly into:
STRONG women--butch or femme--
bio-male bottoms--total subs--
queer-minded tranies of all walks

me: 5'5 white 160lbs boyish and playful into relaxed play and open communication.
*bondage and kink are always welcome

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We must organize our resources cause the 3rd colum is coming...

2006-07-21T17:57:23Z

They are soldiers of the cause of Equality and will fight to the last man if required. We will survive in all countries, continents and oceans. They cannot stop us, believe me. we are going to be the largest silent army in this whole world. Now we must litigate and litigate, but we are ready for the worse. The christian taliban will suffer there own karma from the jihad of Islam, so let them eat their cake now. For now Pzc James.

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okay here's one, but this guy might be just crazy...

2006-07-14T01:26:27Z

...he seems to hate everyone presumptively and equally. Have we done this tribe?

I've seen him around tribe but not in a while. Then again, if the postmodernism tribe here he started is just him and his f*@kbuddy, we could have some fun in a postmodern philosophical way.

http://tribes.tribe.net/post_modernism

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Homophobic Police Assault In Santa Cruz

2006-05-05T01:35:40Z

The following is a letter of protest sent to the Santa Cruz City Council for the police assault of Shane (Tammy) Maxfield.

Santa Cruz City Council,

I am writing to protest the assault and false arrest carried out against Shane (Tammy) Maxfield by Santa Cruz Police Officer Brierly. A description of that arrest from an eyewitness follows this letter.

You as the City Council are the boss of the police and hold direct responsibility for the outrageous violations of civil liberties that are routinely carried out by your police department.

Yours is a police a department that has been successfully sued for its violations of free speech rights, a department that has violently broken up a protest against the war in Yugoslavia, a department that purposely targets activists for harassment, brutality and false arrests, a department that murdered activist John Dine in cold blood, a department that has been caught spying on and infiltrating anti-war organizations, a department that purposely targets the poorest of the poor for harassment, brutality and false arrests under the direct orders of the anti-homeless laws that you as a City Council have passed, a police department that targeted the Blue Lagoon, a gay bar, for special homophobic treatment eventually costing the City in a settlement of well over a million dollars.

The homophobic hate crime that Officer Brierly has now carried out against Shane (Tammy) Maxfield is just one in a long list of crimes carried out by your police department. Your encouragement of past crimes has led directly to this most recent one. The Santa Cruz Police department is sending out a strong message that Santa Cruz is not safe for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender community and that the City no longer wants their tourism dollars.

I demand that Officer Brierly be immediately fired from the police force for his hate crime against Shane (Tammy) Maxfield and that Officer Brierly be jailed on the charge of felony assault for his criminal violence and reckless endangerment of the life of a person suffering with HIV/AIDS.

Sincerely, Steven Argue
Liberation News
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news

Protest Messages Can Be Sent To:
City Council: citycouncil@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
Cynthia Mathews: cmathews@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
Ryan Coonerty: rcoonerty@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
Emily Reilly: ereilly@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
Tim Fitzemauric: tfitzmaurice@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
Tony Madrigal: tmadrigal@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
Ed Porter: eporter@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
Mike Rotkin: mrotkin@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
Police Auditor: PoliceAuditor@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
CC Steven Argue: Steveargue2@yahoo.com

Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:16:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:
Subject: case #065-04163
To: dao@co.santa-cruz.ca.us
District Attorney Bob Lee: May 3, 2006

I am a witness in the case of Shane(Tammy) Maxfield, case #065-04163. Shane was handcuffed and forced to sit down against the chainlink fence on Pacific Ave/Church for "directing traffic." He was actually helping a friend and another witness, David Bliss jump David's battery to move his van out of the handicapped space.

The officer refused to give me his name and badge number. I begged him twice not to arrest Shane as he is severely ill with AIDS and has just started a dibilitating HIV cocktail of Trevada and Sustiva. He laughed at me and said "That's not gonna happen." I told him Shane might die of stress in jail and he guffawed and shrugged me off.

It was apparent the officer realized he hadn't charged Shane with anything yet as he pulled Shane up by his coat, slammed him against the fence and forced the top of Shane's head to barely touch him. He said: "Now I've got you for battery." This was in full public view of at least 40 witnesses at 1 PM on April 25,2006. Before the sergeant could take stories from witnesses Shane was put in the police car and taken to jail. His arraignment is May 15, 2006. The jail personnel were sympathetic and thought the whole incident ridiculous.

It is a travesty of justice to allow a police officer with NO communication skills arrest a severely ill man for helping a friend (the van was already jumped and ready to go when the arresting officer on the beat got there) This officer should be removed from the police force as he is nothing more than a thug in a uniform. He is guilty of police brutality, false arrest and battery upon Shane not the other way around.

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One for our side

2006-03-23T21:54:21Z

I recently came across a tribe called "Die hipster faggot! Die!" The only member was the breeder guy who started it, but it was a public tribe and encouraged violence against us. I informed Tribe about it and they deleted the tribe and informed the moderator why they did.

I'm going to do periodic searches on "gay", "fag", "homo", "dyke", etc. to find new tribes I want to join and to become aware of tribes that are hateful to us. "Christian" is another good word to research. If anyone can help me out with this, I'd appreciate it.

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Protest against "Battle Cry" Rally this Friday, SF City Hall 2:30

2006-03-22T20:56:20Z

reposted from Cal. Progressives. Thanks, Janet!

EMERGENCY PROTEST
AGAINST RIGHT WING CHRISTIAN AGENDA

FRIDAY, MARCH 24
2:30 PM - 4:0O PM
SAN FRANCISCO CITY HALL

Once again, out of town right wing extremist Chrisitans are coming to San Francisco. They are having a youth “battlecry” Friday and Saturday at SBC/AT&T Park, but as their “warm up” they are staging a rally on the steps of OUR City Hall.

Who are they? Check out www.battlecry.com: They believe in ongoing wars against Muslim countries, recruiting our youth as “Christian soldiers.” They want to enact laws that are antiwoman, antichoice, antisex, and anti-gay.

STAND WITH US TO TELL THEM
TO GO AWAY—
WE DON’T WANT THEIR THEOCRACY!

San Francisco Code Pink
riotcrone@yahoo.com

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Lambda Youth Project Gay Prom 2006 in Hayward, CA

2006-03-20T22:39:15Z

I am going to volunteer for this prom. It is an annual event by and for youth held in Hayward, and inviting youth up to age 20 all over the Bay. There are many parts we adults can play in making this a safe and fun environment for LGBTQQ youth in the Bay Area, from being chaperone the night of the event (June 10, 2006), to raising money for poor kids to attend, to updating their webpages with current info.

I have volunteer applications with me or you can visit

www.gayprom.org/gp2006/index.html for info

or request a volunteer packet at: info@gayprom.org

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kinda gay

2006-03-11T17:48:53Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/lookskindagay?r=10535

the tribe "looks kinda gay" is rife with examples. I plan to do some more exploring when I'm not feeling so Ubersensitive. I just got blown away.

posted in Guerilla Queer Tribe - 17 replies

Church of Q [invitation for tuesday eve]

2006-01-31T05:32:23Z

You're invited to the very first service of the Church of Questions

Tuesday the 31st of January 2006 from five to eight o'clock

Union Square in downtown San Francisco

5PM gather & ask questions like: How's it hangin? Why'd we come here?
6PM watch the State of Confusion address
7PM topple 30-foot Bush statue, go shopping

featuring 2 reverends, 2 professors and a poet:

* Kevin Padian: President of the Board of the National Center for Science Education; Curator of the University of California Museum of Paleontology; Professor of Integrative Biology, UCB

* Rev. Charles Tigard, Associate Pastor, Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco

* devorah major, former Poet Laureate of San Francisco

* Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton, Buddhist Peace Fellowship

* MC: Tony Jackson, Professor of Psychology, Skyline College

(Church of Questioners: look for curious chico with a peace sign)

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SUPER HOT MAN ON MAN PRIVATE FUCK PARTY -SF

2005-10-31T04:15:54Z

AUGUST 20TH, 2005
hosted by JIFFYLUBE Camp of BURNINGMAN
nn san francisco... A secret warehouse location.....
All the hot punk fuckkers will be there
to tie you spread eagle to the bed and use
you like a dirty submissive cum dumpster
and seed your ass so full of nut it's still dripping
out two days later.
DETAILS AT WWW.GETINGETOFFGETOUT.COM

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Is this a job for this tribe?

2005-07-19T01:29:47Z

Over at the "fagopolis freexone tribe" there is a post about a guy on tribe who says he is gay and a nazi. He has swastikas and other aryan garbage in his pictures and his links to other tribes. Is this a place to stand up to fascists in the community? I think there is no more place for them in our community than there was for nambla.

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I'm baaaack!

2005-07-12T07:56:51Z

Hey, Kids!

I'm back after cycling through a few other tribes. I'm thinning my herd of tribes, dropping some time-wasters and sex tribes in order to focus my time, energy and attention on tribes that fulfill other needs of mine.

Do I really need to be in multiple gay sex tribes, whose only distinction from each other is having a different name and moderator? I have more than enough (is that possible?) pictures of hot naked guys doin' it. I want to feel my time on Tribe is spent learning, teaching, building friendships, and making the world a better place. Oh, and meeting hot guys.

I have a couple of actions in mind, which I will fill you in on later, 'cause I'm still catching up after my 4th o' July weekend of wild abandon. The tribe intro says GQT is "inspired by" Guerilla Queer Bar, because I want to do different kinds of actions, not just take over homophobic tribes and redecorate them, though that can be a major and fun part of what we do. Some will be fun, some will be more serious. Everyone is welcome to participate and contribute as they wish.

Let's go lick, I mean kick, some ass!!!
Varian

ps--Trouble, your sex tribes are distinctive and humorous, but I'm still not going to join them, though I'll continue to download pictures from them. Trouble scours the web for porn so I don't have to. Thanks bunches, Mr. T! :D

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Fire in a Manhole

2005-05-26T19:15:42Z

I haven't been on for a couple of days, due to a "fire in a manhole" that knocked out phone lines in my neighborhood on Tuesday. No info on how many men were required to quench the burning orifice, but I'll bet it took quite a few before it surrendered and cooled down. Sounds HOT!

posted in Guerilla Queer Tribe - 25 replies

Tribe is Gay...

2005-05-24T05:38:06Z

Johnny has left the tribe, it is now open for membership

posted in Guerilla Queer Tribe - 9 replies

Biphobia

2005-05-11T01:42:56Z

I amended the tribe description again to include fear of bisexuals/bisexuality. At first I was thinking, in terms of this tribe, that it's the homo half of bisexuality that gets reactions from homophobic hets, so we'd just go after homophobia. But I see a lot of biphobia from homo folks, too, so let's deal with that in both hetero and homo tribes. And heterosexism affects us all.

Again, Welcome EVERYONE!!!

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new tribe: Working Class Queers

2005-05-10T04:39:29Z

please join us at:
workingclassqueers.tribe.net

a little introduction is in order. I'll be your moderator.

I was born into a GI family in the USA and have thus lived on and near fabulous military bases all over the lower 48 and AK. Locations include many of our vast and wild western deserts, like the Columbia River Plateau and the Mojave Desert. Others included the largest staging point for the Vietnam War, Tacoma, home of both McChord Air Force Base and Fort Lewis.

This is where I was born. My dad, whose family was anthracite coal miners in PA, quit HS to join the air force, and my mom, whose folks were dairy farmers, went to secretarial school to get a civilian job on base.

We're german, welsh, scots-irish, french, and native american.

I knew I was queer without the luxury of any role models. This was in the days when military doctors still used shock therapy on many lucky psychiatric patients, thankfully not me. I focussed on getting through HS, and moving to Seattle, the big city for us, where there was queers. I had no idea what they'd be like, but I had no choice but to go.

I went to a state university, where I studied economics and languages. I presently work with HIV positive people who are on a fixed income.

please feel free to fill us in on yourself.

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Transphobia

2005-05-08T06:11:35Z

I changed the tribe description to include transphobia, so that queers all along the gender spectrum will feel welcome here and encouraged to participate. I also think it's good to confront transphobia in our own ranks.

Welcome Everyone!!!!

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Oh, Johnnie

2005-05-07T00:02:06Z

Looks like he booted us out of that tribe.

posted in Guerilla Queer Tribe - 17 replies

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2005-05-06T22:03:43Z

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Queer Eye for the Straight Tribe

2005-05-03T19:14:42Z

I considered this as a subtitle for the group, but it's too wimpy. I want to strike fear into the hearts of homophobes, making them quail at the thought of our simply DIVINE retribution. BwaHaHa!!

But seriously, don't you think some straight tribes could really use a makeover, as well as more scintillating dialogue?

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Tribe is gay

2005-05-03T06:29:07Z

There's this cute and clueless str8 boy, Johnny, who started a tribe called "Tribe is gay" and lists all the bad and lame things about tribe. He's using gay in the hateful, derogatory sense of gay=bad or lame.

I'm too drunk right now to lambast him in a coherent and effective way, but I suggest we take over his tribe (it's open membership with only 2 members) and put him in his place. We could also swamp him with suggestive friend invitations and/or vitriolic messages. Beating and gang raping him would be fun, too, but impractical due to geographical considerations.

Of course, engaging him in calm and respectful discourse might be the most effective way to educate him and show him the error of his ways, but I was just out cruising several bars and didn't get laid, not even a little tonsil hockey, so I need some outlet for my frustration. Let's all go and lick, I mean kick, some breeder ass!!! *
http://austin.tribe.net/tribe/2e375adc-8e90-4f32-a3f1-ba2c03bed2f0?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B2e375adc-8e90-4f32-a3f1-ba2c03bed2f0%5D&r=10535

* This was originally posted in A Queer Tribe on 4/23 @ 2:20 am. I not drunk right now and I got laid yesterday, FYI. This counts as our first GQT "Action" and led to the formation of this tribe. Thanks Benjamin!

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