THIS IS TODAY! COME COME COME! if you can please come to trans day of action beforehand. we meet at 3pm at washington square park. xoxo, queerball organizers.
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i’m gonna be posting some of the signs folks made at the prep party for queerball! we’re trying to be heavy on visual messaging this year so we don’t get co-opted into marriage equality headlines like we did last year.
we want gay haircuts not youth shelter cuts
QUEERBALL STRIKES BACK! A radical queer street party
Friday, June 22nd at approximately 6:30
…because Stonewall wasn’t the beginning and marriage isn’t the end!
MEET US: At the end of the Trans March! Gathering at 6:30pm in Washington Square and leaving at 7pm. Look for the Queerball Banner on the edge of the Trans Day Of Action Rally!
DANCE, DISSENT & TAKE THE STREETS TO: Tompkins Square Park & the Drag March! Dancing and chanting facilitated by the RUDE MECHANICAL ORCHESTRA!
THEN GATHER: outside of Stonewall after the Drag March, for a glittery, theatrical Anti-Awards Ceremony, paying sarcastic tribute to some of the jerks who’ve sold us out!
WHY?!
Because it SUCKS (and not in a hot way) to not be represented, and to be misrepresented, by mainstream Pride celebrations.
Because we CAN’T BUY LIBERATION with corporate-sponsored Pride — but we can come together, dissent, and have rowdy fun for FREE.
Because we, too, get to make & TAKE UP SPACE for ourselves and our own politics.
Because radical queerness has to be about DISMANTLING SYSTEMIC OPPRESION including white supremacy, capitalism, the class system, ableism, colonialism & imperialism alongside (and not after) homophobia, transphobia & patriarchy.
Because we want space to BRING TOGETHER folks of many queer identities, rather than dividing and subdividing ourselves into segments or fighting over identity & territory.
Because we’re hot, we’re diverse and inclusive, and we’re gonna be SEEN & HEARD.
BRING?!
Noise & Music Makers: buckets, drums, pots & pans, tambourines, horns, kazoos + tools to get us dancing through the streets.
Posters: make your politics visible with messages that show that “Stonewall wasn’t the beginning and marriage isn’t the end!” Think NYC budget cuts to homeless youth, the prison-industrial complex’s targeting of QTPOC, the appropriation of queer movements by corporations for profit, the promotion of gay rights to mask human rights abuses… oh my! *
Visual Spectaculars: costumes, boas, bow ties, sparkles & glitter, whatever makes you feel queer + whatever makes you feel sexy.
Mobile Talents: hula hoops, stilts, acrobatics, contortions, face-painting, tarot reading + DANCE MOVES.
Every queer, homo, gender-transgressor, radical, alphabet-soup-inspiring, awesome, fun, or angry person you know or like.
WHO?!
You. Me. Your besties. Your lovers. Your comrades. queerball@gmail.com.hey qts, come to this event i’m helping organize & dance with me.
This looks fucking fantastic and I will signal boost the shit out of it.
Where is stonewall?
Stonewall is 53 Christopher St in NYC. Please do signal boost!
