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Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are for a Queer discussion around Queer organizing in Connecticut!

Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Metropolitan Community Church
Street: 155 Wyllys St
City/Town: Hartford, CT
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Marriage equality represents a seat at the table for LGBT folks-but whose table are we sitting at? And what about the rest of us who are still grasping for crumbs?

On the job, at school and on the street, queerfolk of all stripes are still some of the most oppressed in society. Queers Without Borders seeks to build a movement to flip the table over altogether. Come contribute to the discussion, and meet the faces behind the statement below:

“This document is Queer As Fuck”

We are a collective of people with diverse backgrounds, ages, identities and a variety of progressive political outlooks. We are committed to creating a welcoming space for social action with a solid foundation of respect and compassion.

We want a free world based on equality, learning and healthy relationships. We believe in each person’s right to free expression of gender, sexuality and beyond, based on the desires of the consenting individual, not by other peoples’ definitions and prejudices.

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 You may recall the story of Esmeralda, a trans woman seeking asylum in the US from Mexico who was brutally treated by Immigration authorities while in detention.  An immigration official forced Esmeralda (formerly Mayra), a transgender woman, to perform oral sex on him while she was in the custody of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. The official later resigned and was sentenced to four months in jail. After reporting the abuse, Ms. Soto suffered various forms of retaliation and often feared for her life. Ms. Soto, who came to the U.S. seeking asylum, had also been raped by a male inmate while detained at a jail in her native Mexico. She currently resides in Southern California.Below is her story, a video.  See also Just Detention for her story, under their profiles of courage.

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Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda, a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico, who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home. But her story is also one of hope in its desire to create change.

 

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The Ct TransAdvocacy Coalition, MCC/Hartford and many of our allies and community will be Remembering those individuals who are brutally murdered simply because they did not conform to societies standards of what a “real man or woman” looks or acts like.

Friday, November 20, 2009
5:15 PM Gathering at First Presbyterian Church, 136 Capitol Ave, Hartford
Vigil Walk from First Presbyterian Church to the State Capitol
5:30 PM Rally at the State Capitol
7:00 PM Transgender DOR Program at MCC Hartford, 155 Wyllys Street, Hartford

For more information call (860) 983-8139 or email diana @ transadvocacy.com

Those Being Remembered in 2009

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A new theater piece written & performed by activist Peterson Toscano. Toscano unearths transgender Bible characters- those people who do not fit in the gender binary and who, in transgressing and transcending gender, find themselves at the center of some the Bible’s most important stories. Hilarious and moving. Download and freely distribute the flyer for this performance [Download pdf]

Event Info

Friday, September, 11 2009
7:30 PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT
Order your tickets TODAY by calling (860) 249-1207
Tickets: $20 general, $10 Charter Oak and Let*s Go Arts! Members, $5 students

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