Here are a few key headline suggestions about how to make our cities more queer (from a piece I wrote recently for the Pink Pauper)
* celebrate our histories - locate and mark the strategic queer sites of our own and earlier generations
* build alliances across queer generations and build spaces that are more inclusive of queer elders
* engage with and celebrate cultural difference - challenge racism in our communities and build global networks of solidarity and friendship
* defend sites of public homosex (and take responsibility for tidying up after ourselves when cruising outdoors)
* make time and space for play
* create our own autonomous queer spaces - they are spaces of hope
what do you think? what else would you add to the list?
* celebrate our histories - locate and mark the strategic queer sites of our own and earlier generations
* build alliances across queer generations and build spaces that are more inclusive of queer elders
* engage with and celebrate cultural difference - challenge racism in our communities and build global networks of solidarity and friendship
* defend sites of public homosex (and take responsibility for tidying up after ourselves when cruising outdoors)
* make time and space for play
* create our own autonomous queer spaces - they are spaces of hope
what do you think? what else would you add to the list?
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Tue, August 3, 2004 - 12:12 PMnice!!
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Tue, August 3, 2004 - 4:58 PMI really like the generation bridge thing - it's something new.
The racism issue is simply one that's needs action, not talking, but I am white too, so what am I talking about...
I'm missing an educational element. Kids should know from a very early age on that there's something like being queer and it's OK. And I guess they should also know that it's OK to be straight too
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Wed, August 4, 2004 - 9:52 AMi think i want to iconify queer spaces in a DIY way.
little tags or markers of some sort that are a visual cue... similar to the way that some gutterpunk kids hang pirate flags in their windows, or hobos mark spaces to let others know that it's safe, etc. -
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Thu, August 5, 2004 - 1:50 AMI like this idea.
I did a radical/queer walking tour of East London last winter and we marked some of the sites we visited (like Batty Street - the site of Queeruption 4) with homemade pink plaques complete with loads of glitter, of course, and an explanation of why the site was important to us.
Most of them, inevitably, had been torn down by the next day. But at least one (marking the site of a GLF commune from the 70s) was still up a week later...
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Wed, August 4, 2004 - 11:28 AMbrilliant post and comments.
gav, when the piece is completed, i'd like very much to post it in the Queer Resources section on queeruption.org - can you post it here or email it to me pls? Thanks!
Btw, i just updated the website and it is now *interactive* like indymedia where folx can 'publish their news' directly...
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Thu, August 5, 2004 - 1:45 AMcertainly, we had to cu it slightly to fit into the pauper, so I'll send you the original extended version later on. -
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Thu, August 5, 2004 - 8:55 AMthanks gavin. much appreciated. at some point i want to add the entire pauper(s) to the resources section or atleast a link to an online version of it. make it as accessible as possible... -
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Thu, August 5, 2004 - 9:02 AMNext time I see Ruth M, I'll ask her to send the pdfs to you (but she seems to have done a disappearing act recently...) -
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Thu, August 5, 2004 - 9:39 AMCool. Otherwise I can scan it if I can get a copy (unfortunately didn't get one while we were in Amsterdam...)
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Thu, August 5, 2004 - 9:22 AMGav, if you send me back issues, i will make sure that they are available through QZAP -
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Thu, August 5, 2004 - 2:37 PMwill do! we're veering massively off topic, though, aren't we....
So,back to the topic in hand...
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Sat, August 7, 2004 - 3:27 AMOk, Spike the full text is now in the listings section of this tribe. feel free to republish it on queeruption.org -
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Re: dreams of the queer city
Sat, August 7, 2004 - 7:55 AMThanks Gav, I've added Dreams of the Queer City to queeruption.org's Resources/History section. Much appreciated!
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