Can GetEQUAL NOW Make the LGBT Rights Movement Less Racist, Transphobic, and Ageist?
http://www.queerty.com/can-getequal-now-make-the-lgbt-rights-movement-less-racist-transphobic-and-ageist-20100616/Dallas-based activist CD Kirven is credited with naming the new activist group GetEQUAL. She attended its initial planning sessions, got arrested for sitting alongside four other members in Nancy Pelosi's office, and has never strayed far from co-director Robin McGeHee's side. When Kirven first joined GetEQUAL, she was most excited about its promise of radical inclusivity; she disliked the predominantly white male face of the LGBT rights movement and hoped GetEQUAL would finally address issues of representational inequality within the community itself. But instead GetEQUAL focused mostly on ENDA and DADT and slowly became like the mainstream gay rights organizations they hoped to differentiate themselves from, Kirven believed. When a GetEQUAL member told Kirven that she was dragging down the gay rights movement by constantly bringing up issues like racial inclusiveness, it became clear to her she'd have to form her own group, and that's why she founded GetEQUAL Now. It's only associated with GetEQUAL in name and tactics — and it's forming a grassroots army of butch dykes, trans folk, poor old queers, and people of color to contend with Gay Inc. so "fringe queer culture" will finally get some representation in gay mainstream politics and culture.
