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The mechanisms by which space can reify and dismantle the Gender Binary.

2006-11-16T06:40:48Z

I'm doing my thesis on queer space. Specifically, I am trying to identify the mechanisms by which space reifies and/or dismantles the Gender Binary. Anyone have any ideas what those mechanisms might be?

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fifth topic this year, isn't that sad?

2006-11-16T06:36:59Z

come on over to www.free-association.net

where queer space cadets actually post and stuff.

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Welcome to new members

2006-07-25T22:09:39Z

Hi folks,

There's been a sudden flurry of new people joinig this tribe over recent weeks. Sorry I haven't said 'hi' to each of you in person, but welcome to the tribe. Please introduce yourselves and say what brought you hear..

Gav

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Queer elders

2006-07-05T23:48:05Z

Well, this tribe has been in limbo for months, as my mind has been occupied with other things, so I thought it was time to get things moving again.

Over the last week I've been away at Queer Pagan Camp. There I ended up having a number of conversations with friends in the second half of their 50s, who are beginning to make plans for their retirements.

All of which made me think about the spaces we want to retire to, what would a queer (and, as ever, I don't just mean queer=LGBT) retirement home would look like.

I'm also interested in the on-going issue of how we make queer spaces more inclusive across the age-range of our communities.

Your thoughts, please....

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Homophobic Police Assault In Santa Cruz

2006-05-05T01:34:22Z

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

2006-03-24T02:06:00Z

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 http://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!

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Rhizomatic queer space

2006-01-04T20:26:31Z

Anyone understand the work of Deleuze and Guattari enough to suggest how queer space(s) relate to their conceptual framework?

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Alternative queer atlas

2005-12-24T15:55:30Z

Hi folks,

I've just re-read the description I wrote for this tribe when I set it up and noticed the line about writing our own alternative queer atlas. What an inspired idea, even if I do say so myself ;-)

So, let's kick this off...

1) Which mainstream gay site or event is most important to you?

2) Which alternative queer space is most important to you?

3) Which, now lost/closed, space would you re-open/revisit, if you could?

4) Which gay or queer space has most inspired you (or changed your life, even...)?

I really look forward to hearing from you...

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atypical t-girl tribe

2005-12-24T15:36:40Z

...because we just don't have enough queer tribes here already...

this is the welcome text -

This tribe is open to anyone, with a few noteable exceptions that I'll get to, but the focus are male-to-female transexuals that, for one reason or another, find that they just don't fit in with what you might call "Mainstream Transexual Culture."

What could I possible mean by that? Unfortunately, it's only possible to explain myself through negatives. For instance, I don't like the gay bar scene. I don't 'perform' in shows where the transgendered nature of the performers is the focus. Really, the best thing I can say is "if you are, you know."

You are welcome here unless you plan on making your first message something like "I'm so horny where can I meet a t-girl ugh." There are other tribes here more than willing to accomodate you

-susan

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Guerilla Queer Tribe

2005-05-01T06:40:54Z

Come & Play with Us!
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/tribe/84e68925-221d-4c7e-bc6c-d103a2267dd6?r=1

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Queer chatting and Indymedia

2004-12-15T20:37:41Z

(sorry for multiple posting)

the http://www.queeruption.org site has a lot of really great options,
there's a mailinglist, an interactive forum, a real wiki thing, a news publishing thing... but no realtime IRC chat yet,

I've found out there is actually an *Indymedia* imc-queer mailinglist but no #queer chat at their IRC yet,
however this is super dooper easy to make, via
http://chat.indymedia.org/channels.php
anyone can do it!

or just use your IRC program and create a #queer room via the irc.indymedia.org + port 6667

it's a really nice and casual way to meet virtually with fellow queeruptors

also there is talk on that little known imc-queer list (from indymedia) about starting a wordlwide www.queer.indymedia.org site
I feel it would be good idea to do that,
so please contribute and ask Indymedia.org with help for the domainname and such at
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-queer

diy

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gayshame.org

2004-11-21T17:55:20Z

check out the new http://gayshame.org interactive website

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DIY London ESF?

2004-10-15T12:18:12Z

For more information on what the ESF is, look here:

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2Ctribes%2CViewThread.vm?threadid=bb917dfa-01ff-4ce2-8146-8ce4e8010bd4&_message_resource=info.post.created&tribeid=65456d4e-e5cf-43cd-a0b4-a9ebd733e2d5

i am not sure if I am going, because I'd like to know if there are other queers going too,
and where they are at.
For example: I was wondering if we could do a queer guerilla action at the ESF this weekend?

I am planning to go to London this saturday and sunday - but i am not going to the ESF itself - it's too expensive.
I was wondering if Queeruption-like people are meeting at certain spots or events so I can meet up with you and them.

if i know for certain where we meet, I will definately come!
Any one else who is going:
join this thread!
let's make a group!

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Last chance!

2004-09-24T06:13:04Z

...to help me raise money for the Cascade AIDS Project for the Cascade AIDSWalk. The walk is this Sunday, but online donations need to be in by Friday at 5pm. Please follow the link below to donate online....any contribution helps!

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=44949&supId=56738562

Thanks for your support!

- nathaniel

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GQB

2004-09-20T18:06:04Z

Hey,
I think an SF denizen can better describe it, but the whole notion of Guerilla Queer Bar is one of my favorites... the idea that any bar/club/resteraunt can become a queer space for a night.

xo
Milo

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parks and green spaces

2004-09-20T11:13:53Z

(with apologies to those who have already read this in the queer pagan tribe):

Just stumbled across this quote from Alan Barber of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and it appealed:

"The annual spend on parks and green spaces in the UK is only a third more than the National Health Service spends each year prescribing Prozac. What can you do with pills that you can't do by putting people into really good parks?"

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a project i'm working on

2004-09-16T14:09:33Z

i'm a Radical Faerie, and we have a few queer spaces - santuaries and intentional communities - throught the USA. I'm interested in this tribe because i'm working on some fund-raising that will lead to the purchase of some rural land in Northern California so we can have a faerie-identified retreat center.

Additionally, I'm working to help create a queer/faerie healing arts center in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco. It will be an urban space (probably only indoor, but some outdoor room would be lovely too) where people can practice massage, reiki, hypnosis, energy work, accupressure/accupuncture, herbalism and other healing modalities. (Profits from this center will go towards purchasing the other land, above).

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Define "queer"...?

2004-08-30T14:23:25Z

Hello all,
i have a bit of trouble with the word 'queer.'
I thought this word was originally used as a swear word towards gay men mostly.
But then the last few years it seems to have become an umbrella term - this also happened to the word 'transgender'.
So I was thinking on posting about spaces that are friendly and resourcefull for both gay, lesbi and tranny folks here in Holand.
But I think in the Netherlands 'queer' still means 'gay'.
How can we exchange information if the definitions are off?
Another question: for the past 11 years I called myself bisexual, but i don't feel comfortable using that word anymore - for many reasons. First of all the bi scnene felt very straight to me, secondly the word 'bi' conforms to the notion there are only two genders, thirdly: if I don't identify as either gender and I'll always be of a different gender than my partner, then I must be... heterosexual!!
But I don't want to call myself het...
So should i call myself simply 'sexual' or 'queer'??
Jeez...
I WANT to be called _some_thing....

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Truck Stop Research

2004-08-29T04:41:31Z

The August 2004 Issue of Discover MAgazine has an article on research on the sex lives of Truckers and why that research is nessary.

Organizations like The Traditional Values Coalition have been attacking such research and the article provides the facts to help in talking about such issues.
(Providing of course any of us know anyone who would have a problum with such things.)

Here's the link.

http://www.discover.com/issues/aug-04/features/forbidden-science/

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New Gay Mecca... Hull?

2004-08-12T17:39:44Z

I don't know if the Britons in the group have seen this, but it came into my view today...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,12592,1278080,00.html

what do you think? do 8 gay bars a queerspace make?

xo
-M

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dreams of the queer city

2004-08-07T14:55:51Z

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?

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Help!!!

2004-08-06T18:39:14Z

We just showed up in the S.F. area and have no place to stay. If someone has a couch to lend that would be great. Let's talk. Love and magik, Thing

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gay vs queer space

2004-08-03T21:52:15Z

Here's a little extract from something I wrote recently:

"the closet can work in different ways in the urban landscape and is not limited to making all gay spaces and spatial practices hidden or invisible. This reinforces my belief that the incorporation of gay spaces into bureaucratically planned ‘representations of space’ is limited and limiting. For me, queer space, is quite a different entity. It is a form of ‘commons’, or counter-public space that escapes the bounds of abstract representations of space through the everyday (and, at times, consciously oppositional) spatial practices of queer folk."

It's a little out of context, I realise, but I'm interested to hear whether the distinction between 'gay space' (as something that is increasingly incorporated into the urban planning structures of major cities) and more autonomous 'queer spaces' makes sense to any of you....

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Neat Dutch treats

2004-07-16T23:53:42Z

Well...
If you know of any interesting Dutch queer 'monuments' and spaces, post them in this thread...

In Utrecht (a more or less progressive alternative town) there are PANN parties
http://www.pann.nl
meant for queers and straights to get together and mix and party - harmony thought. Really neat.

In Amsterdam there's the grass root-like transgender cafe night every 3rd saturday in the Saarein Bar, organised by the Noodles group:
http://www.n00dles.nl
fighting for gender liberation and trying to build a TG scene in the Netherlands.

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please post pics

2004-07-10T22:33:51Z

c'mon, show off your favourite queer spaces and tell us about them...

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making space - San Francisco

2004-07-06T23:56:46Z

here's an event going on tonight (and on-going). a faerie named Pup contacted Magnet ( a gay men's health organization) and they are allowing us to use their space for faerie circles. the space is architecturally neutral (i think) but this is a different use of it (spiritual, rather than just health screening).

for those in San Francisco, here's the dope:
Heart Circle at Magnet
(a public event)

Faerie Heart Circle open to all who are interested in gay men's identity, spirituality, and community.
when Tuesday, July 6 2004
8:00PM
location Magnet Men's Health Center
4122 18th Street
San Francisco CA 94114

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Keywords???

2004-07-03T01:15:16Z

I think there needs to be some clarification about the list under "Keywords:"...I see all of them being well established "queer spaces" whether by consensus or roll of the mighty dice. Is this a platform to perpetuate these in hopes to improve & elaborate, or to go beyond=toward that which has not yet been experienced?

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Sites that should be remembered

2004-07-01T20:30:57Z

So many of our great queer spaces have gone for ever - places that were important to us individually and collectively. Which queer sites that have now closed or been destroyed would you like to see remembered, and why?

Here's three from me, from London:
1) The Pride of Stepney - my local sleaze/cruise bar, which closed five years ago. Many fun times in (what they used to coyly describe in their ads as) the 'interactive games room'

2) The London Lesbian and Gay Centre, Cowcross Street - memories of long, angry, but very enjoyable ACT-UP London meetings there in the early 90s.

3) The railway walk, Finsbury Park - a great little cruising ground, with a great sense of community.

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