Dallas author and activist, C.D. Kirven was a guest on Lambda Weekly’s radio show at KNON 89.3 this past Sunday afternoon. C.D. Kirven was one of the infamous “ENDA 4″, choosing to stay in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in order to get a confirmation that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act be pushed to a vote [...]
Posts Tagged ‘activism’
Six rules for being a real ally.
I really want to thank Sharon Bridgforth for sharing this video called “6 Rules For Allies”, as I learned about through it my friend, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano. Definitely food for thought for me in light of my recent posts about support the queer family in Africa. It’s food for though for me speaking out [...]
Podcast: Conversation with Buster Spiller
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I’ve written on this blog and other places that one of my favorite experiences after accepting myself as a gay man was taking part in a inter-generational discussion of black gay men every other Saturday in Houston called The Men’s Gathering. Today, I’m speaking with one of the architects of the The Men’s Gathering in [...]
Interview with Blake Wilkinson of Queer LiberAction
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If there’s one public figure that has been made waves in the Dallas gay and mainstream press in 2009, it’s Blake Wilkinson, founder of the direct political action collective, Queer LiberAction. Whether you love him, love to hate him, or simply disagree with his approach, I wanted to make this interview of opportunity to hear [...]
Dallas gay political activists square off on strategy
In case you missed last night’s Dallas Voice-sponsored debate with Queer LiberAction’s, Blake Wilkinson and Rick Vanderslice, against Stonewall Democrats members, Mike Lu Vuolo and Jay Narey, read about it on my Examiner.com article today.
Queer LiberAction’s Blake Wilkinson ousted from Ft. Worth city council meeting
As seen on CBS11 here in Dallas and read here in Star-Telegram.com, after demanding several times that the incident at the Rainbow Lounge be moved up from the last item on the city council’s agenda, Blake Wilkinson was ousted from the city council meeting for causing a disturbance. Consistent with Queer LiberAction’s direct confrontational approach [...]
Black and gay activism: just some of my story.
In light of the talk about the Dallas Principles and my recent trip to allgo’s second annual Texas Queer of Color Summit, I realize two things. For one thing, being an “out” blogger may afford me the opportunity to speak louder about certain issues than perhaps some individuals are able to given their jobs and [...]
Why the Dallas Principles?
So, I get word from a QPoC blogger in Washington, that there’s a crew of about 24 people that met in Dallas to form a “grassroots” campaign to demand full equality for LGBT people. And, I assume, that because they met in Dallas, their calling the document, The Dallas Principles. Nevermind that in their grassroots [...]
