Genderqueer
Transgender, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Transgender Musicians, Claude Cahun, Girlfags and Guydykes, Audre Lorde
By Books LLC
2010
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Transgender, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Transgender Musicians, Claude Cahun, Girlfags and Guydykes, Audre Lorde Project, Judith Halberstam, She Dick, Miss Shangay Lily, Leslie Feinberg, Fudgie Frottage, Lynn Breedlove, Transcending Boundaries Conference, Genderqueer, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Gender Bender, Kings N Things, Colin Kennedy Donovan. Excerpt: Transgender topics The Audre Lorde Project is a Brooklyn, New York -based organization for queer people of color . The organization concentrates on community organizing and radical nonviolent activism around progressive issues within New York City, especially relating to queer and transgender communities, AIDS and HIV activism, pro-immigrant activism, prison reform and organizing among youth of color. It is named for the queer poet and activist Audre Lorde and was founded in 1994. History The Audre Lorde Project is an organization for queer specifically, lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit and transgender people of color communities. It was founded in 1994 by a coalition of queer people of color led by Advocates for Gay Men of Color, a multi-racial network of gay men of color advocating for progressive HIV policies. It was named for gay poet and activist Audre Lorde, who had died in 1992. The purpose of the Project emerged from "the expressed need for innovative and unified community strategies to address the multiple issues impacting LGBTST People of Color communities." In 1996, the organization moved into its permanent home in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, parish house of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. Mission and Principles The organization's mission statement is: "The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit and Transgender People of Color center for community organizing, ...
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