Public Protest! NYC's LGBT Center is trying to choke anti-Apartheid organizing and fundraising.
The LGBT Center's director, Glennda Testone, cancelled a big Israel Apartheid Week fundraiser this week. She acted just hours after a Zionist activist threatened to organize donors to pull Center funding. Glennda also decided that SiegeBusters can't meet at the Center any more; and that airing Israel's violent repression of Palestinians -- queer and otherwise -- violates the Center's "safe space."
WHOSE SPACE?! PROTEST the LGBT CENTER'S DISCRIMINATION.
- Stand up for anti-Occupation queers, Palestinian queers and self-determination!
- Stand up for the right to organize against the Israeli occupation!
- The LGBT Center belongs to all of us. Safe space for queers and ideas, not for donors!
Bring noise and glamor to take back our community's home!
This isn't the first time the Center is labeling community members "good" or "bad": it's not so long since trans people were literally thrown out when trying to attend Center events. We fought back then, and we'll fight back now. No silencing of voices calling for liberation.
Faced with bad press and a torrent of criticism, Glennda "offered" to substitute the fundraiser with a closed meeting about the Center's policies. We're not distracted by Glennda's bad-faith deal. And we don't have to have a meeting to know that the LGBT Center belongs to all of us
