Independence Day, Part deax
Apr. 24th, 2007 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaI finished my last post about the fact that Kvisah Schorah asked Avihuh to move with the Israeli flag away from them.
I find it very ironic that a group that advocates the total freedom of expression, would ask someone to remove a flag that "they" don't identify with.
The queer community is not only Radicals, it's everybody.
I have my own issues with Israel, but on Independence day (which is also Nakba Day.) the Israeli flag means more than oppression and Zionism, at its most basic level the symbol of the county we live in, for better or worse.
Avihuh did move to the far left side of the line and I stood with him with a huge Pride Flag, and we discussed how they really were missing the point of this protest, how are we supposed to make a proper stand from the Queer community, when there so many mini-wars within the community itself.
I tried to tell them that they're not the only group being represented here and that it was not okay of them to tell one of the people who came to stand with them to move simply because you don't agree with him.
There was a resounding, *thud* when they ignored me.
So Avihuh and I decided to shout the loudest (I even used a megaphone :).
Obviously as the protest progressed and more and more people came for the Capelton concert the Radicals left and us the "Moderates" *snort* to hold the show, we started with about thirty people in the beginning of the night and in the end we were ten.
I ended up losing my voice after shouting at an asshole who came to bother us, I don't think he expected for the little femme (and I really was the femmiest one there, except for a few of the gay guys there) to have such a loud voice. Or to get into a shouting match with him.
I just love how these ignorant people come and tell me, ME that they understand, but why must we be so "provocative" and is a Reggae concert really the place?
Uh, yeah!
So long as I have to go through the Rabbi's to get a divorced (even if, hypothetically, got married abroad), there has to be a protest.
So long as people call Jerusalem "Their City" and not the "Capitol City" we must march there.
So long as people, any where in the world, for the death of "Sodomites and other deviants" the people must tell them "Shut Up and Listen!"
So we stood outside the club until one thirty in the morning, yelling, handing out flyers and basically "being there".
We'll always be here and there.
I find it very ironic that a group that advocates the total freedom of expression, would ask someone to remove a flag that "they" don't identify with.
The queer community is not only Radicals, it's everybody.
I have my own issues with Israel, but on Independence day (which is also Nakba Day.) the Israeli flag means more than oppression and Zionism, at its most basic level the symbol of the county we live in, for better or worse.
Avihuh did move to the far left side of the line and I stood with him with a huge Pride Flag, and we discussed how they really were missing the point of this protest, how are we supposed to make a proper stand from the Queer community, when there so many mini-wars within the community itself.
I tried to tell them that they're not the only group being represented here and that it was not okay of them to tell one of the people who came to stand with them to move simply because you don't agree with him.
There was a resounding, *thud* when they ignored me.
So Avihuh and I decided to shout the loudest (I even used a megaphone :).
Obviously as the protest progressed and more and more people came for the Capelton concert the Radicals left and us the "Moderates" *snort* to hold the show, we started with about thirty people in the beginning of the night and in the end we were ten.
I ended up losing my voice after shouting at an asshole who came to bother us, I don't think he expected for the little femme (and I really was the femmiest one there, except for a few of the gay guys there) to have such a loud voice. Or to get into a shouting match with him.
I just love how these ignorant people come and tell me, ME that they understand, but why must we be so "provocative" and is a Reggae concert really the place?
Uh, yeah!
So long as I have to go through the Rabbi's to get a divorced (even if, hypothetically, got married abroad), there has to be a protest.
So long as people call Jerusalem "Their City" and not the "Capitol City" we must march there.
So long as people, any where in the world, for the death of "Sodomites and other deviants" the people must tell them "Shut Up and Listen!"
So we stood outside the club until one thirty in the morning, yelling, handing out flyers and basically "being there".
We'll always be here and there.
