Episode 6: Queer Insurrection - A Radical History of San Francisco

Gay Shame

The Marys interview one of their own to learn more about LAGAI-Queer Insurrection (formerly Lesbians And Gays Against Intervention), a radical collective that started organizing in 1983 against the USA's murderous meddling in Central America. How do you keep a group going for 40-plus years? Avoid burnout? Stay radical when so many others become liberals? If you're feeling nihilistic, learn from people who've worked toward another world for longer than some of us have been alive.

More:

LAGAI - Queer Insurrection! https://www.lagai.org

Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) https://www.quitpalestine.org

UltraViolet newsletter https://lagaiultraviolet.wordpress.com

LAGAI Propaganda (in PowerPoint format)

Stop AIDS Now or Else's Golden Gate Bridge Shut Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKAIPOBWlY

Writing including interviews with LAGAI members:

Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Fillmore_Street_1960

How a queer liberation collective has stayed radical for almost 40 years - Waging Nonviolence https://wagingnonviolence.org/2016/07/how-a-queer-liberation-collective-has-stayed-radical-for-almost-40-years/

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Recorded February 22, 2021. Transcripts and resources at gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-the-podcast/.