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Photos from Nov. 15 Anti-Prop 8 Rally in the media gallery!

Hey, Rally and Gallery almost rhyme!

Blacks Tipped the scale for California's Gay Marriage Ban

An article from Minority Reporter in Rochester.

Check out: http://www.minorityreporter.net/web_edition/November_15_2008/November_15...

RALLY AGAINST PROPOSITION 8

RALLY AGAINST PROPOSITION 8
(Prohibiting Same Sex Marriage in California)

Location: Monroe County Office Building
39 W. Main Street, Rochester NY

Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Date: Sat., November 15

Last Tuesday, Californians by a slim margin, overthrew the rights of
same-sex couples to marry.

Poverty and Violence: Assault on Human Rights – Workshop/Conference Friday 10/17

Submitted by Paul on Wed, 2008-10-15 12:22

Disappeared Since 2000, Rochester ranked 11th in the entire U.S. for childhood poverty rates and, more recently, first in New York State. In 2005, Rochester was “Murder Capital” of New York State on per capital basis with 54 homicides. Somehow, the self evident connection between these reports is all but lost in our public discourse and the city’s response to crime in Rochester.

Pro-Choice Regional Advocacy Conference

Join reproductive justice advocates from across the Western, Central, and Southern Tier region at the Stronger. Together. Regional Advocacy Conference to build organizing skills and learn about hot topics in reproductive rights.

Featured guest speaker: Shelby Knox, reproductive justice speaker, blogger, and youth activist and focus of the award-winning documentary, The Education of Shelby Knox

Radical Reading Group reads Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

The Queer Radical Reading Group will be meeting on Thursday September 4th and 18th at 7 PM at Equal Grounds to discuss Julia Serano's book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Please come!

Join the Bash Back! Upstate NY list! Calling all radical trannies & queers!

Be loud, be proud, BASH BACK!

Four Detained and One Arrested at BASHBACK! Demonstration Against Human Rights Campaign

Rochester Indymedia coverage from the DNC 2008!

Indy TV #13 Rebecca Newberry on Queer Politics and GAGV Projects

This week on Indy TV Rebecca Newberry, special projects coordinator from Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley (GAGV), joins us. She discusses two of special projects that GAGV has taken on, Campus Out and a Queer Homeless/ Runaway documentation project, as well as many other issues.

On the use of the word "queer" Rebecca explains: " For older folks in the LGBT community the word "queer" stimulates this really uncomfortable negative response, because it was a hate directed word and it is a word that is used to insult, to hurt members of the LGBT community. However, its really been reclaimed over the past ten years or so by youth, in a way thats an umbrella term to describe different orientations, different identities in a way that's inclusive. So we joke about always adding more letters to this LGBT…A…I thing, now we're, young people, are starting to use, the word queer to be all inclusive and not have to spell everything out all the time."

Burlesque for Bail: Unconventional Acts for Unconventional Action

An evening of strip-tease, drag, tap, music, and comedy!

All fund raiser proceeds will go towards the Unconventional Action Upstate NY legal defense fund for folks going to demonstrate against the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota (September 1st - 4th) and the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado (August 25th - 28th).

Shut down the RNC!

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