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Author Archives: Andy Thayer

Why You Should Volunteer for GLN @ Market Days!

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

Originally published July 31, 2015 From its start, the Gay Liberation Network has promoted justice issues long before they became popular. ** Opposing the invasion of Afghanistan in September 2001, when few Continue Reading →

Posted in Intersectionality, LGBT rights, Uncategorized | Tagged Activism, Market Days | Leave a reply

Remembering David Kato, Facing the Future

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

Originally published July 14, 2015 After a panel discussing the future of LGBT organizing in Uganda and memorializing the late David Kato, a Ugandan LGBT leader murdered due to anti-gay Continue Reading →

Posted in International LGBTs, LGBT rights | Tagged Africa, LGBTQ rights, Refugees, Uganda | Leave a reply

How Can We Stop the Violence?

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

Originally published July 14, 2015 In June, Chicago’s “Open University of the Left” kindly invited the Gay Liberation Network‘s co-founder Andy Thayer to speak about the devastating level of violence in Chicago Continue Reading →

Posted in Class, Police, Racism | Tagged Black Lives Matter, Chicago Police Department, Economic Inequality, Police Brutality, racism, Violence | Leave a reply

Pride Parade Contingent for Immigrant, Refugee & Asylee Rights!

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

Originally published July 8, 2015 From the Chicago Sun-Times: “Ana Santoyo walked in the parade with the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, which stands for “Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.” She said Continue Reading →

Posted in Immigrant Rights, International LGBTs, Pride | Tagged Immigrant Rights, Refugees | Leave a reply

Supreme Court Decision Day!

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

Originally published July 8, 2015 Allie Buchwach, a volunteer with Marriage Equality USA and a key organizer of the event Brent Holman-Gomez of the Gay Liberation Network and Chicago Welcoming Continue Reading →

Posted in Courts, LGBT rights | Tagged Equal Marriage Rights, LGBTQ rights, Supreme Court | Leave a reply

Welcome Ugandan LGBT Leader to Chicago!

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

First published July 8, 2015     A few years ago Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill, later modified to be a “Jail the Gays” law, drew the ire of the world. Continue Reading →

Posted in International LGBTs | Tagged Africa, LGBTQ rights, Pepe-Julian Onziema | Leave a reply

The Court Didn’t Give Us the Right to Marry

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

 …and neither did the politicians nor their hangers-on First published July 1, 2015 by Gay Liberation Network co-founder Andy Thayer reprinted with permission from Huffington Post and CounterPunch It’s been a long road to get where Continue Reading →

Posted in Courts, LGBT rights | Tagged Equal Marriage Rights, Supreme Court | Leave a reply

We SUPPORT Refugees’/Asylees’ & Immigrant Rights!!

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

Originally published June 26, 2015 Join us for the We SUPPORT Refugees’/Asylees’ & Immigrant Rights!! Contingent @ Pride Parade A record number of immigrants — 2 million+ — have been deported by President Obama, and even half-hearted Continue Reading →

Posted in Immigrant Rights, International LGBTs, Pride | Tagged Immigrant Rights, Refugees | Leave a reply

Defend Uptown’s Homeless!

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

Originally published June 26, 2015   Protest the moving of people experiencing homelessness from under the viaducts in order to “clean up” and “make it safe” for concert goers to Continue Reading →

Posted in Class, Homeless Rights | Tagged Alderman James Cappleman, Chicago Police Department, homeless, North Side Action 4 Justice, Uptown Tent City Organizers | Leave a reply

Supreme Court VICTORY!

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Andy Thayer — Leave a reply

Originally published June 26, 2015 Speak-Out / Celebration  7 PM Tonight!!   This morning the Supreme Court announced that we have prevailed against the bigots who said that LGBTs didn’t have Continue Reading →

Posted in Courts, LGBT rights | Tagged Equal Marriage Rights, LGBTQ rights | Leave a reply

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