2 Responses to “Anarchopride!”

1. 1 Moira Sullivan
   Jun 26th, 2008 at 8:12 e m

   Finally a group in Sweden is visibly and openly addressing the
   biggest farce of all: Europride, Pride, whatever, for years I have heard lesbians complain about this event, from the expensive “dogtags”, to the straight entertainment at the Pride tent, an arena closed to the non paying low income gay lesbian transgender community, walled in by a cyclone fence, Reinfeldt speaking at PRIDE, overconsumption of alcohol, oversexualization and commodification of gays, lesbians, and transgenders resulting in sex and love addiction. This includes the registration of partnerships in Sweden, another commodity reduced to a piece of paper to better organize and depoliticize gays and lesbians. Its happening everywhere, the right to love, the right to marry , the right to fall in line with the compartmentalization and commodification of love. IKEA wins big, bolån, fack, everyone as we organize into manageable safe sex units. Bravo.

2. 2 Moira Sullivan
   Jun 27th, 2008 at 2:42 f m

   Gay Shame a Radical Queer Alternative

   Gay Pride has not always been such a spectacle of consumption; it’s roots lie in the famous and everyday acts of queer resistance to police brutality (Stonewall Riots, Compton Cafeteria Riots, etc). Furthermore, since the beginning of corporate-sponsored “pride,” queers have resisted by various means, from physically attacking the organizers, to blocking elected officials from marching, to breaking into the march with anti-consumerist messages. The first Gay Shame event took place in 1998 in New York, organized by a collective of queers who challenged the limiting agenda of of a gay movement that refuses to address racism, misogyny, heterosexism, and classism as an intrinsic part of organizing.
   See
   http://www.spike00.com/clubky/gayshame.htm

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