Gays Agast Guns: n the LGBTQ muny curb the power of the gun lobby? | US gun ntrol | The Guardian

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• ABOUTEVENTSNEWSSUPPORT
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• GAYS AGAST GUNS: N THE LGBTQ MUNY CURB THE POWER OF THE GUN LOBBY?
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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• WHY GAYS AGAST GUNS THKS GUN VLENCE IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
• IT'S BEEN 5 YEARS SCE THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG, AND GAYS AGAST GUNS WON'T LET THE WORLD FET

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Everday, we're fightg to break the cha of ath between the vtors, manufacturers, the NRA and policians who block safer gun USGays Agast Guns NY is an clive direct actn group of LGBTQ people and their alli mted to nonvlently breakg the gun dtry's cha of ath—vtors, manufacturers, the NRA and policians who block safer gun laws. ”Sheehan is part of a growg movement among gay people across Ameri vowg to take on the gun ath epimic, followg succsful mpaigns for marriage equaly and the repeal of the ernment’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, which prevented gay soldiers om servg their untry Agast Guns (Gag) is a llective, based New York Cy, that clus several veterans of Act Up, the activist group that forced Print Reagan to rpond to the Aids epimic.

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‘It vastated me’: Patty Sheehan wh clergyman Kelv Cobaris (centre) and a lol gay rights mpaigner after the Pulse shootg. And now wh Orlando, h me as a gay man, ” he said. He helped by handg out clean needl to dg addicts the then no-go Lower East wh a msage: John Grwiler, one of the founrs of Gays Agast Guns.

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GAYS AGAST GUNS: N THE LGBTQ MUNY CURB THE POWER OF THE GUN LOBBY?

”Rock and a hard place: Gays Agast Guns stage a prott at the Manhattan offic of BlackRock, massive vtors gun pani.

The most recent Gag meetg lasted eight hours as members bated whether or not Gag should bee Gat – Gays Agast Tmp.

While Gag is visceral and direct, Ldsay’s Pri Fund to End Gun Vlence is takg a nsired and targeted lobbyg approach to help gay people and their alli “elect ndidat who will act on sensible gun policy reforms while champng LGBTQ safety and equaly”. “I was shocked to my stomach when I saw on the news, ” Ldsay said om Dupont Circle, DC’s historilly gay but now yuppified neighbourhood. Today he is leadg a mpaign on one of the most ntent issu Ameri, as a gay man wh hundreds of LGBTQ supporters.

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“Why do I thk gays n change this? “The gay muny, and s alli, are an credible force. “This is a new fight for the gay muny, addg our credible strength and polil experience to the existg mpaigns, and that will make a difference.

”Ldsay is uniquely placed to take on this fight as a gay man workg polics who has fired ary asslt rifl siar to those ed by the Pulse killer.

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”Barbara Poma – the owner of Pulse, who created the club as “a place welg anyone and everyone” memory of her gay brother John who died of Aids-related plitns 1991 – rri, and her hband and son own, several firearms. Maloney mand actn om Supreme Court to Prerve NY State Gun Laws(Members of Gays Agast Guns and our Human Begs at The US Supreme Court.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Photo: Donna Aceto) GAYS AGAINST GUNS TO HOLD PRESS... | Event RepGays Agast Guns memorat the send year sce the massacre at Parkland by gog to Tmp Tower to register our llective! GAG Tak to Women's March 2020 | Event RepPhotos by Pl Rowley GAY AGAINST GUNS were so proud to march wh all our sisters and alli today New York Cy for Women's Rep: When they take liv, we take the street!

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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

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WHY GAYS AGAST GUNS THKS GUN VLENCE IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE

Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. In this op-ed, wrer and activist Adam Eli Werner explas why an anizatn he's proudly a part of, Gays Agast Guns, believ that gun vlence is like a sickns or most mon way to tch a ld is by g to ntact wh a person who already has one.

I am a social media manager at Gays Agast Guns, where we believe gun vlence is a public health issue that n be cured if is treated as an epimic, a sickns, or a disease. A ban on asslt rifl — which the shooter reportedly ed — certaly uld have hampered the vlence and lowered the sualty irrponsible laws and lack of regulatn make nsistent and adly gun vlence Gays Agast Guns, our motto is “honor them wh actn.

IT'S BEEN 5 YEARS SCE THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG, AND GAYS AGAST GUNS WON'T LET THE WORLD FET

On Saturday, June 12, a sea of veiled, whe-clad activists om the direct actn group Gays Agast Guns showed up to the Christopher Street Piers—a se wh a storied and plex queer history—to hold space for the 49 people who were murred at Orlando's Pulse nightclub 2016. "Remember the 49, " read one prott sign, and that was the ethos that fueled the group's march om the Piers to the Stonewall Natnal Monument, where numero speakers—cludg Gays Agast Guns foundg member Jay W. Gays Agast Guns is particularly vted potg out the disproportnate effects of gun vlence on LGBTQ+ people, and particularly queer and trans people of lor; below, fd the chillg yet spirg imag om the group's Pulse Remembrance Day prott.

Photographed by Michael GeeBen Williams—one of the origal members of Gays Agast Guns—joed the first weeks followg the massacre.