News and Letters Committees invites you to a panel discussion:

How Do We Defend Equality?

Prompted by California’s anti-gay Proposition 8, passed in November 2008 to ban same-sex marriage, many Queer activists joined together to plan a National Equality March for October 11, 2009, the 30th anniversary of the 1st national march on Washington, D.C., for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights. The march has one demand: “Equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.

• What do we hope to gain by marching on
Washington?

• Should one of our demands be legal marriage
between same-sex people? Or is legal marriage
an oppressive capitalist institution that should be abolished?

• What kind of demands will help create the
kind of society where everyone experiences freedom?

Speakers:

• Darrell Gordon, Queer activist, local organizer for the 1987 National March and National Steering Committee delegate to the 1993 March

• Elise Barclay, activist and “Queer Notes” columnist for News & Letters

followed by free and open discussion

Date: Monday, September 28, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: News and Letters Library
228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230
Chicago, IL 60604

For more information:

312-431-8242
arise (at) newsandletters.org