A-Infos (en) US, Lansing, Michigan. Bash Back!* Raises Hell at Anti-Queer Mega-Church

The Mount Hope Church is a deplorable, anti-queer mega-church in Lansing, 
Michigan. The church works to institutionalize transphobia and homophobia 
through several repulsive projects including organized “ex-gay” conferences and 
so-called “hell houses”, which depict queers, trannies and womyn who seek 
abortions as the horrors. Mt. Hope is complicit in the repression of queers in 
Michigan and beyond. ---- Bash Back! ain’t down with that. And so on Sunday 
November 9th, about thirty radical queers from Lansing, Chicago, Memphis and 
Milwaukee disrupted the church’s most well-attended sermon. ---- At noon, a 
small group of folks dressed in pink and black, equipped with a megaphone, black 
flags, picket signs and an upside-down pink cross began demonstrating outside 
the church. The group was extremely loud and wildly offensive.

The demonstration drew a majority of Mount Hope’s security staff outside
to watch them.

Meanwhile, with the guards pre-occupied by the distraction, over a dozen
queers had put on their Sunday-best and infiltrated the church’s
congregation. At the signal that the guards had been lured outside, the
infiltrators sprung into action.

A group stood up, declared themselves fags, and began screaming loudly.
Upon hearing the loud interruption, other affinity groups went into
action. A team that had been hiding under the pews in the closed-off
balcony dropped a banner and pulled back the curtains to reveal “IT’S OKAY
TO BE GAY! BASH BACK!”. Another group threw over a thousand fliers to the
entirety of the congregation. The fire alarm was pulled. Queers began
making out in front of the pastor. And within a matter of minutes,
everyone had evaded the guards and made their escapes.

Bash Back! operatives, still hidden among the congregation observed a
person screaming that Satan had come to Mount Hope, that the end was here,
that the queers were everywhere. She then began speaking tongues. The
dumbfounded pastor, after regaining his composure, went on to speak of the
of decadent, depraved wolves that menace his flock of sheep.

Let it be known: So long as bigots kill us in the streets, this pack of
wolves will continue to BASH BACK!

We are everywhere.
bashbacknews.wordpress.com

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About BB!

This year the US has seen an explosion in Radical Trans/Queer organizing. From 
Maine to the Midwest to The Bay Area, RadiQueers are holding it down. Pride 
events have been crashed, glitter bombs have been thrown, and militant marches 
have taken the streets. In a month’s time, Trannies and Queermos will play a 
major role in crashing both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.

BB! News has been launched in an effort to collect stories and disseminate 
information to radical Trannies and Queers throughout the US and beyond.  BB! 
News is not limited to Bash Back! chapters. Any and all radical trans/queer folk 
are welcome to use this site to plug actions/events, reportback, distribute 
propaganda, release manifestos and communiques, etc. This site is currently 
under construction but will be posting articles regardless. If you have any news 
you want to share email Bashbacknews@gmail.com

What is Bash Back?

Bash Back! formed in 2007 with a small group of Radical Transfolk, Queers and 
Allies organizing against the Republican National Convention. In April of 2008 
over 100 radical Trans/Queer/Allied folk met in Chicago to formulate plans 
against the RNC/DNC and to start a long lasting network. Anyone who agrees with 
the Points of Unity can start a Bash Back! Chapter.

POINTS OF UNITY

Members of Bash Back! must agree to:

1. Fight for liberation. Nothing more, nothing less. State recognition in the 
form of oppressive institutions such as marriage and militarism are not steps 
toward liberation but rather towards heteronormative assimilation.

2. A rejection of Capitalism, Imperialism, and all forms of State power.

3. Actively oppose oppression both in and out of the “movement.” All oppressive 
behavior is not to be tolerated.

4. Respect a diversity of tactics in the struggle for liberation. Do not solely 
condemn an action on the grounds that the State deems it to be illegal.

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