This Saturday, Feb 25th 2006, the Exodus "ex-gay" conference came to Saint Louis County. This is a christian organization which claims to help people reject homosexuality and become straight. This one-day conference cost participents $60. See
www.exodus.to/ for more information on the organization.
Saint Louis responded: A billboard promoting the conference was modified into a positive message, affirming and celebrating gay identity. This happened sometime just before the day of the conference. The billboard is on 64/40 at Newstead.
Earlier, two of the four billboards were modified with spray paint and pink and purple paint balloons.
The morning of the conference, large crowds gathered outside to hold a peaceful action protesting Exodus. As the conference attendees drove in, they were met by chants and signs affirming GLBT identities.
Comments
Modified? This one seems a bit trashed...
25 Feb 2006
10:30 AM CST on Tuesday, February 21, 2006
(KMOV) -- A controversial billboard seems to have been vandalized overnight.
The sign is on Highway 44 near the Vandeventer exit.
It is advertising a conference by a Colorado Evangelical group that says homosexuality is a choice and is not genetic.
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
25 Feb 2006
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
26 Feb 2006
not gay as in happy, but queer as in 'fuck you'
26 Feb 2006
what I mean is that we should do away with IDENTITY (that constraining monster that it is)
and let people be able to do what they want - wether it's loving or fucking someone of the opposite or same sex, or whatever.
I'm not middle or upper class, I don't think our responses to the scary heterosexist culture we live in needs to be sponsored by bud light or pepsi (or novak's/freddies/attitudes) or anything like that - I think we need to all fight (like those who did these actions) against those things that destroy us in our own ways.
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
26 Feb 2006
Stay up and stay true.
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
26 Feb 2006
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
27 Feb 2006
I wonder if these were the same guys who were promoting the "choose straight" thing at CPAC (the conservative political action conference). We paid to send a group of 'crashers in, to report back on the idiocy of the right-wing; if you're interested, here's the report (from the Indymedia DC site, where it was featured center-column…not "censored" as I'm sure it would have been under the St L indymedia site's proposed censorship policy):
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/132570/index.php
sh(A)ne
Re: Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
27 Feb 2006
dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/132570/index.php
Thanks for the link to the Bureaucrash action. Looks awesome.
the graffitti said
27 Feb 2006
'right wing scum, your time has come!'
I don't know why they covered part of it up with the rainbow flag, not that I don't like the rainbow flag.
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
27 Feb 2006
http://www.stlimc.org/newswire/display/1301/index.php
Also check out the petition against Focus on Family.
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
27 Feb 2006
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
27 Feb 2006
Now on Global Indymedia newswire
27 Feb 2006
www.indymedia.org/en/
Archive:
newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/archive.shtml
Protest pics now in Media Gallery
01 Mar 2006
At any rate, the are now pics of the protest outside the 2/25/2006 conference in the Media Gallery
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born queer/choose queer
05 Mar 2006
Hooray to whoever trash the billboard - baited or not - and boo to whoever wrote about billboard "modifacation" and the "positive" message and the "peaceful" protest.
Indeed, not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you!
Re: 64/40 Exodus Billboard Modified!
20 Jun 2006
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23 Jun 2006