About – GAY SHAME

Contents:

• GAY SHAME PILLORI LONDON BREED, GAY SF SUPERVISORS PRI MONTH INSTALLATN AT ATA
• GAY SHAME
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• LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]
• ACTIVISTS DEMAND A POLICE-FREE PRI AS SFPD RAMPS UP ITS GAY-FRIENDLY IMAGE
• GAY SHAME HEX THE CONDOS

GAY SHAME PILLORI LONDON BREED, GAY SF SUPERVISORS PRI MONTH INSTALLATN AT ATA

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While Gay Shame started New York Cy the late 1990s, the Gay Shame movement soon got self a San Francis chapter, which gaed promence ten or so years back for their vrlic anti-tech, anti-gentrifitn flyers and “Queers Hate Techi” stencil mpaign. That was seen the wdows of the Valencia Street’s Artists’ Televisn Accs (ATA), and a Monday social media post tipped off that the Gay Shame gang was up to their old tricks wh a new stallatn the same via InstagramGay Shame’s Instagram acunt do seem to take cred for the act, and the stallatn has apparently been there for weeks.

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“London Breed was joed at tonight’s ceremony by two of her Gay Bt Fascist (GBF) to celebrate Stonewall, the first pro-police rt.

” There were not paper artist’s statements as there were for the fnnch stallatn, though the words “Gay Shame” and “Queers Hate Cops”do appear stencil work at the bottom of the Joe Kura, SFistLet’s unpack what we see gog on here. A rdboard cutout of Mayor Breed is cuttg a rabow ribbon, while next to her, a cutout of openly gay SF Supervisor Rafael Manlman dons a police hat and holds an SFPD Joe Kura, SFistA cutout of gay District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey holds a “Party N Police” sign, a likely reference to his time as a police partment public relatns guy.

We seek nothg ls than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, genr and sexualy, to unter the self-servg “valu” of gay nsumerism and the creasgly hypocril left.

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Gay Shame engag highly visible and performative acts of prott and ristance, cludg street theater, and siwalk bombs around the cy wh msag like "End Marriage. " In 2002, Gay Shame held the Exploatn Runway rponse to then-supervisor Gav Newsom's proposed ballot measure, Proposn N, also known as "Care Not Cash".

Gay Shame was started 1998 Brooklyn, NY, and was active at DUMBA, the artists' llective that the movie Short B was based on. Mattilda has wrten about Gay Shame's activi and history "Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomo Space to Direct Actn Extravaganza", That's Revoltg! The loosely affiliated rabble-rog group Gay Shame, which has for years postered the cy prott of mastream LGBT groups and SF Pri, support of Chelsea Manng, and last year wh posters.

Bee pri San Francis means neher beg bold nor takg a risk, the San Francis Gay Pri mtee has backtracked on their appotment of Bradley Manng as the Gay Pri Marshal of. In shockg news that uld all but renr the Castro District vant on Saturday nights, alleged ex-gays claim they're wng the war agast the blogil imperative known as same-sex sire.

LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]

The Human Rights Campaign, one of Ameri's most strint gay-civil-rights s, rdially v you to lay down $195 (or jt $125 wh stunt ID -- those lucky kids, what a steal!

ACTIVISTS DEMAND A POLICE-FREE PRI AS SFPD RAMPS UP ITS GAY-FRIENDLY IMAGE

I talked (somewhat wistfully) about Gay Shame, a radil queer alternative to Pri that a bunch of threw New York for three years at a llective livg/performance space lled dumba. Our hand-wrten flyers were grandse—over a photo of the San Francis general strike of 1934, we proclaimed, “Are you chokg on the vom of nsumerist “gay pri? Ten months later, we me up wh the Gay Shame Awards, where we would reward the most hypocril gays for their service to the “muny.

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” We sought to expose both the lie of a homogeno gay/queer “muny, ” and the ways which the myth of muny is ed as a screen behd which gay people wh power opprs others and get away wh . We held the Gay Shame Awards Harvey Milk Plaza, at the center of the whe-washed gayborhood of the Castro, and btowed awards eight tegori, cludg “Bt Target Marketg” and “Makg More Queers Homels.

” We served ee food and gave out homema patch and artwork, Gay Shame buttons wh the image of Rosie O’Donnell or Gee Michael, and var other lici.

As requted, people drsed to excs, exaggerated, smeared makp and glter, torn ball gowns, and cmpled drs shirts—one participant wore a drs ma entirely out of shoppg bags—the Gap, Starbucks, Abercrombie and Fch, and other gay mastays—and stiltwalkers drsed garbage bags add to the ftivi. We started to thk serly of Gay Shame as a direct-actn group that fed the theatrily and pageantry of the seventi drag troupe the Cockett (The Cockett movie was premierg at the Castro Theater), the ance of late-eighti/early-neti ACT UP, and the antipalist direct actn of Reclaim the Streets. Two months of planng culmated volunteer para marshals stigatg vlence agast , and the bashg and arrt of two Gay Shame participants.