Queer Nation adalah[1] sebuah organisasi penggiat LGBTQ yang berdiri pada Maret 1990 oleh New York City, oleh para penggiat HIV/AIDS dari ACT UP.[2] Empat pendirinya mengecam peningkatan kekerasan anti-gay dan lesbian di jalanan dan bertindak dalam bentuk seni dan media. Kelompok tersebut dikenal karena taktik konfrontasionalnya, slogan-slogannya, dan praktik outing.

Queer Nation
Queer Nation logo by
Alan MacDonald and Patrick Lilley from 1992
Tanggal pendirianMaret 1990
Tipeaksi langsung
TujuanPenyingkiran homofobia dan peningkatan visibilitas LGBT

Referensi sunting

  1. ^ "Facing Fury Over Antigay Law, Stoli Says 'Russian? Not Really' - NYTimes.com". 
  2. ^ Seidman, Steven (1997), Queer Theory/sociology, Blackwell Publishing, hlm. 414, ISBN 1-55786-740-2 

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"The Case For and Against Queer Nation," pp. 256–66, Johansson, Warren & Percy, William A. Outing: Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence. Diarsipkan 2016-03-25 di Wayback Machine. Harrington Park Press, 1994.

Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke. New York: Random House, 1993. ISBN 0-679-42188-2. In this nonfiction book, the author recounts her struggle to adopt her domestic partner's son, a drama that is set against a backdrop of Queer Nation actions in San Francisco in 1990-1992.

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