Midwest Action Network

Join Bash Back! as we celebrate queer and trans brilliance and resistance this weekend at the Chicago Dyke March and Pride Parade.

On Saturday, June 28 Bash Back! will be marching in the Dyke March in Pilsen. We will meet between 1-2pm at S. Halsted and 18th Street. The march begins at 2:30pm. Look for our banner about gentrification.

The day after, on Sunday June 29, we will descend upon the glorious Boystown
gayborhood for the 39th Annual Pride Parade. Join us in a theatrical display of
resistance to the corruption of the Daley Administration, as we bring attention to
his exploitation of the gay dollar and his unwillingness to hold the Chicago Police
Department accountable for the torture of over 100 black men, as well as the CPD’s
continued abuse and harassment of youth, people of color, the homeless, and queer
and transgender people in our neighborhoods.

In light of the appointment of a gay Iraq war veteran and Human Rights Campaign
(remember them and their deliberate exclusion of trans people?) spokesperson as
Grand Marshal of the parade, we will also bring attention to the issue of gays in
the military. We will publicly advocate the idea that the right to kill and the
right to serve in one of the most blood-thirsty imperialist armies in the world is
NOT progress.

And don’t worry, in case you get sick from all those advertisements we will be
passing out barf-bags so you can vomit out your corporate pride! Isn’t that
thoughtful of us?

We will meet at the corner of N. Halsted and Wellington at 11AM in the morning on
Sunday June 29. All are welcome to join in the fun! Costumes and props of any kind
are strongly encouraged. Dress to impress! This will be a Pride weekend not to
forget!

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Bash Back! is a recently-formed group of radical queers, transfolk, and
anarcha-feminists working toward collective liberation and against the forces of
assimilation.

We meet every other Monday at Mercury Café (1505 W Chicago Ave) at 7pm. The next
meeting is Monday, July 7. All are welcome.

For more info: bashbackchi@riseup.net, www.myspace.com/bashback