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From: c@o.com

http://www.towleroad.com/2014/07/gay-shame-protesters-arrested- at-prison-themed-pride-party.html

No matter what, everything is offensive to someone, somewhere,
and this past Pride the San Francisco activist group 'Gay Shame'
took umbrage with Kink.com's prison-themed "Prison of Love"
party. Some 150 members of the group collected outside The
Armory to protest, and according to Kink.com owner Peter Acworth
the protesters were largely peaceful, if unruly, and offended
that the organizers of the party would try "to [turn] these
genocidal practices [of prison rape] into a cash-making joke."

However, as is often the case, a few people ruined it for
everyone. They began harassing people on the sidewalk, punching
security guards, smashing phones, and even breaking the collar
bone of one bystander. When one Kink.com security guard followed
a few of the protesters for the purpose of identifying them for
the police, the protesters then threw objects at the guard and
made violent threats, both felonies. Once the police arrived to
arrest the assailant, two other protesters intervened in the
arrest, which just so happens to fall under California's
definition of lynching.

Mary Lou Ratchet, a Gay Shame representative, tried to draw a
parallel between protesting a Pride party and Stonewall, saying,

Like the Stonewall rebellion 45 years ago, last night's attack
reminds us how trans and queer people of color are criminalized
and arrested for simply gathering in public space, like the 16th
St. BART plaza [where the arrests took place].

The three protesters - Rebecca Ruiz-Lichter, Prisca Carpenter,
and Sarai Robles-Mendez - remain in custody, allegedly on
"trumped up charges." Ruiz-Lichter and Robles-Mendez's bail is
set at $50,000 each; Carpenter's bail is $78,000.

http://gayshamesf.org/

GAY SHAME is a Virus in the System. We are committed to a queer
extravaganza that brings direct action to astounding levels of
theatricality. We will not be satisfied with a commercialized
gay identity that denies the intrinsic links between queer
struggle and challenging power. We seek nothing less than a new
queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and
sexuality, to counter the self-serving �values� of gay
consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left. We are
dedicated to fighting the rabid assimilationist monster with a
devastating mobilization of queer brilliance.

GAY SHAME is a celebration of resistance: All Are Welcome.

AIDS! Get it from gays!
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