Guerrilla Queer Ball

Last year a group called Guerrilla Queer Bar formed in Cincinnati to bring awareness to the city's queer population. The group describes their method: "Every FIRST FRIDAY of the month, Cincinnati's queer community will flashmob and take over a popular straight bar, transforming it, for one night only, into queer dance-love-heaven." [From: Facebook]

Since June is National Gay Pride month the group hosted a Guerrilla Queer Ball at the Mockabee in Cincinnati's West End. The party was an absolutely fabulous time, but best of all the party was socially responsible. The struggle for queer equality is not isolated - all oppression is connected. There was a photo op tribute to Butler County Sheriff Jones (a notorious anti-immigration presence in the Greater Cincinnati Area). This display was used to promote an Immigration Reform arch that took place downtown the following day.



Unfortunately I was unable to attend the march in Cincinnati, but I did attend the National Immigration Reform march on the Washington Mall in Washington D.C. in March of 2010. Here is my favorite image: