Past Events

In preparation for our upcoming Safe Neighborhood Summit on April 16th, SOS will be doing outreach in Bed Stuy. Meet up with us at Common Grounds Cafe, learn how to do community outreach, and put your skills to action! Open to Core, Active, and ally members as well as folks who are new to SOS.

Queer Palestinian groups began to emerge in Israel and the West Bank as early as 2001. After a decade of activism, we aspire to lead a new queer movement that is integral to the Palestinian society, a movement that interlinks and intersects with other social and political struggles and communities. We hope to pave the road way for a relevant and local sexual discourse and a more visible LGBTQ activism.

How is the Palestinian queer movement similar and different than other LGBTQ movements around the world? What are the questions, challenges, and beliefs that shape the discourse of the Palestinian queer movement? How can the other queer people understand and work with issues of visibility and the notion of “coming out” within the Palestinian context? What are the goals, joys, challenges, strategies and dreams of these groups?

From February 5-18, 2011 Ghadir of Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women and Haneen Maikey and Sami Shamali of alQaws - for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, will be on a ground breaking tour of 6 US cities for a series of open conversations moderated by locally and nationally known US activists.

Join us. Listen, ask, learn and connect.

Organized and Moderated by Jasbir Puar, author of "Terrorist Assemblages" and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers. Co-Sponsored by SALGA, Q-Wave, GAPIMNY, Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Queers for Economic Justice.

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