Fall Updates

The Pervers/Cité festival in Montréal was a fantastic success this year.  I was honored to be part of the organizing collective this past August and to host two of the forty+ scheduled events over the duration of Montréal's only anti-capitalist pride festival.  Looking forward to Montréal's other radical queer & trans festival Radical Queer Semaine next Spring.

b. 1983, the short experimental video reflecting on my relationship to HIV and anti-queer violence, will be premiering in Japan (Osaka and Kyoto) at the Kansai Queer Film Festival.  Many thanks to Keiko Ofuji for the time and dedication to translate and subtitle the film.

The broadsheet version of b. 1983 was also shown as part of a group exhibition and fundraiser, Love in the Time of AIDS, for the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center in New York City.  The exhibition opened with a night of performances on September 16th at Le Petit Versailles Community Garden and raised over $500 for the organization's harm reduction programs.

Against Equality will be releasing its second archival anthology, Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars, this fall.  The anthology which I edited features an introduction by the fierce and fabulous Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and contributions from radical anti-war voices critical the gay and lesbian mainstream's investment in militarism and overturning DADT.  This book, like our last one  Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, will be available from the great folks at AK Press.

I will also be presenting Against Equality's work in an international framework at the After Homosexual: The Legacy of Gay Liberation conference in Melbourne Australia at La Trobe University this coming winter.  Against Equality will also be contributing a additional piece to a conference publication, After Homosexual.