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I just found out today that in response to a physical assault against two men holding hands on the Hawthorn bridge, there was a demonstration of Queer activist groups. There is no mention on this website of this. The question I want to pose is, is there any dialogue between Queer activists and other "radical" political groups, and if there isn't, how can we create it? There is, as I've always understood it a chronic distrust among LGBT of the Police in handling things like this. I also know that in this country especially, people who are institutionally disenfranchised on a brooder political spectrum have a tendency to cling to the hopes of democratic reform, and might be weary of having people who are inherently anti-establishment and "radical" on their side, if only for politics sake. But still, the fact that not one member of the Queer community thought to post anything on this web site with the hope in mind of finding people to stand in solidarity with them is not a good sign.
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You sort of have to get it in the pipeline. Lots of bad shit is going down. We have to pace ourselves, or burn out. The gay and lesbian people can do that alone, or wait for the rest of us. There is so much to protest. There is a huge backlog!