“Outing the Invisible Poor: Why Economic Justice and Access to Health Care is an LGBT Issue” (PDF) is reprinted with permission from the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, Volume XVII Number 3, Summer 2010. Afterword Since publication of the piece linked above in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy in 2010, … Read more
It is time for progressive queers to open up a fundamentally different and more expansive conversation around anti-queer violence and the creation of safe communities—a conversation that this time includes all queer communities, not merely the most racially and economically privileged of us. A conversation emphasizing the integrity of community relationships and commitment to the … Read more
Reprinted with permission from My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000). The power of desire and its often dangerous consequences are among the most important human experiences, directing many of the choices we make throughout much of life. They mark and shape us, open us up … Read more
“Why is welfare policy a gay issue?” In my years as the executive director of Queers for Economic Justice, I was asked this question countless times. For the most part, welfare is not considered “a gay issue.” As I discuss in the introduction to this issue of S&F Online, our national LGBT organizations have a … Read more
As the global economy of neoliberal capitalism has emerged, grown, and ricocheted from boom to crisis over the past four decades, its logics have acquired the status of mainstream common sense and inevitability, as asserted by the slogan, “there is no alternative.” But resistance has nonetheless flourished, from the rain forests and nations of South … Read more
Queers for Economic Justice Beyond Marriage Allgo: a statewide queer people of color organization Audre Lorde Project Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project Esperanza Peace and Justice Center FIERCE GenderJust The National Coalition for LGBT Health National Queer API Alliance Peter Cicchino Youth Project Q Team Southerners on New Ground Sylvia Rivera … Read more
When we began working on this collection, we were still in the midst of the Bush era, and many movements in the United States were in the midst of a particularly hostile administration that in several ways celebrated being openly hostile to countless marginalized groups, including queer people. In fact, Bush devised much of his … Read more
With this issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, the Barnard Center for Research on Women celebrates our ongoing collaboration with Queers for Economic Justice. Through this partnership, we have been engaging activists, academics and organizers around a vision and practice of cross-issue organizing that sees gender and sex as central to issues like immigration, … Read more
As I write, our country is still facing an economic crisis of massive proportions. Poverty, unemployment, home foreclosures, homelessness, and hunger are all on the rise. This disaster was caused not just by the corporate crime and corruption of the financial market, but by the decades-long policy, pursued by both Democrats and Republicans, of shrinking … Read more
Hard times are upon us, but not all of us are affected equally. The richest among us are doing rather well—getting relatively richer, in fact. According to one recent study, 93 percent of all income gains in 2010 went to the top 1 percent. But the rest of us, the 99 percent hailed by the … Read more
