Was ‘Radical Queer’ Group Bash Back Behind HRC Building’s Vandalism?
Just hours after the Human Rights Campaign’s dinner with President Obama was picketed by the Gay Liberation Network and Queer Liberaction, the organization’s headquarters in D.C. was vandalized. Coincidence?
Shot with paintball guns and tagged with the phrase “Quit leaving Queers Out,” HRC’s building was hit in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Was it part of GLN/QL’s “free speech” assault on the Gay Inc. organization? Who knows. But just like a Middle East terrorist organization, those responsible claimed credit via … the Internet.
The unconfirmed responsible party posted confirmation on this blog claiming they engaged in some harmless “glamdalism.” So who are they? No names provided, just that they are “a crew of radical queer and allied folks.”
Oh, well then now we’ve got to assume it was Bash Back, the self-identified “radical queer” group behind other high-profile vandalism.
Petulant children.
VIOLENCE IS NOT THE WAY TO GO!!!!!! FUCKING FAG MORONS!!!
Bash Back are just rich white kids with too much time. They’re all scummy fucking losers. When they do something beneficial for ANY of us- let me know. I’m sure hell will be frozen over by that point.
I think they have a right to be angry. The Human Rights Campaign is doing good work by using corporate funding to get gay issues into the mainstream, but seem to support the interests of the Rich White Gay. What about the marginalized among the gay population: Trans, poor gays, homeless gays, etc.? No violence was committed. Property destruction has its pros and cons. It gets the attention that the issue requires. The anger it obviously inspires from folks who show their colors here ( “Fucking Fag Morons”, “Scummy fucking queers”) has a quickening energy to it that begs an important question: is the language used to describe radical liberation activists, who are human beings, more violent OR is a paint bullet and a hot pink cry for inclusion more violent? Property destruction is a detour from the claimed moral high ground, but it is measurably incomparable to the moral nose dive of gay bashing or the exclusion of marginalized gays from Gay Inc. political action. When calculating means and ends it is critical to put oneself in the shoes of the oppressed. Gay bashing and non-inclusive politics causes queer folk to fear for their safety. Did the vandalism cause HRC or Obama to fear for theirs? They aren’t even the target. They were simply the message board.