Bash Back! SOCⒶL (SB-LA-OC-IE-SD-TJ)

About me:

Bash Back! is a network of radical, anti-authoritarian queer projects within the United States. Bash Back! seeks to critique the ideology of mainstream GLBTQ movement, which the group sees as dedicated to obtaining straight privilege by assimilation into the dominant institutions of a heteronormative society. Bash Back! chapters employ direct action to confront capitalism and all interrelated forms of oppression, especially focusing on exposing the gay mainstream and the dangers of gay assimilationism and homonormativity. Bash Back! is noticeably influenced by the anarchist movement and other radical queer groups, such as ACT UP and Gay Shame. Many within the group also draw significant inspiration from events like the Stonewall Riots and the White Night Riots.

Bash Back! es un red de proyectos queer radicales y antiautoritarios dentro de los Estados Unidos. Bash Back! se esfuerza por criticar la ideologia del movimiento GLBTQ dominante, que este grupo considera entregado a conseguir privilegio heterosexual por asimilacion en las instituciones dominantes de una sociedad heteronormativa. Agrupaciones de Bash Back! usan accion directa para luchar contra el Capitalismo y todas las interrelacionadas formas de opresion, especialmente centrandose en desenmascarar el dominante movimiento gay y los peligros de asimilacionismo y homonormativismo. Bash Back! es obviamente inspirado por el movimiento anarquista y otros grupos radicales queer tal como ACT UP y Gay Shame, y por eventos como los disturbios Stonewall y White Night.

Being in Califas, our struggle for queer liberation is more complicated than it may be elsewhere. Many of us are undocumented, and we organize in cities where up to 25% of the population may be undocumented. Undocumented transpeople face even greater difficulties, as their status can make surgery and other necessary therapies unobtainable. There are also added pressures due to family dynamics, racist police, and anti-immigrant hostilities.

Undocumented and non-white queers and transfolk have been abandoned by the Human Rights Campaign and other mainstream, middle class, white assimilationist organizations, who have been too focused on gay marriage and not enough on the real needs our communities. And hate crime legislation has done nothing while people of color and queers are so frequently murdered and bashed by police, neo-Nazis, religious fundamentalists, and homo-/trans-phobes. We formed Bash Back! SOC(A)L because of the understanding that only by bashing back, only by defending ourselves by any means necessary against individuals and institutions that wish to exterminate us--as queers and transfolk, people of color, immigrants, and workers--can we achieve true liberation.

LIBERATION NOT ASSIMILATION!
IT'S OK TO BE GAY!
BASH BACK!


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