LGBT Rights Group set to hold Fort Worth Stockyards protest

10/15/09-by Paula Brooks
The LGBT activist group Queer LiberAction is set to hold a Queer Kiss-in at the Fort Worth Stockyards on October 17, 2009, when Queer LiberAction members intend to call attention to LGBT civil right issues in Fort Worth by displaying their affections for one another in a positive and affirming way in a very socially conservative area of that city.

The event organizers say their protest is designed to be fun and engaging while carrying a serious message….

That message… LGBT’s should be able to express their affections in public without the fear of intimidation, or violence.

Says Blake Wilkinson, founder of Queer LiberAction…

“In 2009, GLBT people have every right to display our affections publicly just as everyone else does. Our community is harassed in our own bars and clubs. We do not have the right to marry the person whom we love. We are not included in federal hate crime legislation, which protects us from violence directed towards our community, and we can be fired from our jobs simply for being gay.

It is of the utmost importance now to respectfully but without falter publicly affirm who we are and who we love.

We are holding the Queer Kiss-in at the Fort Worth Stockyards to illustrate how GLBT people are treated as second-class citizens in our everyday lives. ”