Editing Queer Nation (section)

== Queer Nation in other locales ==
[[File:QN Faggot.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A confrontational sticker created by Queer Nation/San Francisco (1990)]]

=== San Francisco ===
Queer Nation/San Francisco was founded in June 1990 by Mark Duran, Steve Mehall and Daniel Paíz; they organized a meeting at the San Francisco Women's Building the following month where the group was launched publicly.<ref>"An Open Letter to Jonathan Katz" (Feb. 15, 1996); [[GLBT Historical Society]] (San Francisco): Queer Nation/San Francisco Records (collection no. 1993-02), Box 1, Chronological Series.</ref><ref>Dennis Conkin, [http://70.90.168.98/olo/imagedb/1996/08/22/19960822_Mehall_Steve/m19960822_0.jpg "Queer Nation SF co-founder dies at 37,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810215931/http://70.90.168.98/olo/imagedb/1996/08/22/19960822_Mehall_Steve/m19960822_0.jpg |date=2011-08-10 }} ''[[Bay Area Reporter]]'' (Aug. 22, 1996).</ref> In the fall of 1990 the group helped organize a protest against a visiting televangelist who vowed to "exorcise the demons" from San Francisco on Halloween.<ref name="qnsf">{{citation |periodical=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=30 October 1990 |title=The Devil, You Say? San Francisco Faces Halloween Exorcism |first=Chip |last=Johnson |access-date=2008-03-29 |url=http://www.toobeautiful.org/wsj_901030.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026111321/http://www.toobeautiful.org/wsj_901030.html |archive-date=26 October 2007 }}</ref> In another campaign, they distributed their trademark neon stickers that read "Trans Power/BI Power/Queer Nation".<ref>[[Susan Stryker|Stryker, Susan]]. Transgender History. First Printing edition. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008.</ref> The organization was active through 1991; an attempt to revive the group in 1992 was unsuccessful.<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf029000gc;query=queer%20nation;style=oac4;view=admin#descgrp-1.7.2 "Collection Details," ''Guide to the Queer Nation Records''] (San Francisco: [[GLBT Historical Society]])</ref> An offshoot, the San Francisco Street Patrol, was a neighborhood safety patrol in the Castro District; it outlived QN/SF itself by a year.<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2s2025pb/ "Collection Overview: Background," ''Guide to the San Francisco Street Patrol Records''] (San Francisco: [[GLBT Historical Society]])</ref>

In 1992, Transgender Nation was founded by members of Queer Nation as the "first explicitly queer transgender social change group in the United States."<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity|journal=Radical History Review|doi=10.1215/01636545-2007-026|year=2008|last=Stryker|first=S.|author-link=Susan Stryker|volume=2008|issue=100|pages=145–157}}</ref>

=== Los Angeles ===
Queer Nation LA was active in the early 90s staging protests against Hollywood's perceived homophobia and disrupted the [[64th Academy Awards]] by staging a "kiss-in", obstructing entrants from the event while members of the group kissed on the red carpet.  Other more radical actions include a blockade of Ventura Blvd, confrontations with various church groups in the area, and the taking over of a political science class at Los Angeles City College.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives|title=Archives|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

=== Nebraska ===
According to the ''[[Woman's Journal-Advocate]]'', Queer Nation Nebraska was founded in December 1990. To encourage [[détente]] between Nebraska's lesbian and gay groups, Queer Nation Nebraska meetings were co-facilitated by one woman and one man. Queer Nation Nebraska demonstrated in front of churches and protested a show by a comedian [[Sam Kinison]].<ref name="WJA1991">{{cite news |last1=Dain |first1=Michele |last2=Zastrow |first2=Laurel |date=April 1991 |title=Dyke perspectives on Queer Nation Nebraska |id={{Gale|GLTLJC624481642}} |work=Woman's Journal-Advocate |location=Lincoln, Nebraska }}</ref> The organization demonstrated in front of the [[ROTC]] building at the [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]] in April 1991 to protest the military's [[Sexual orientation in the United States military|policy of excluding LGBT people]]. One ROTC cadet spit on queer protesters, then punched and kicked a protester until the cadet was removed by police.<ref>{{cite news |last=VanDeventer |first=Betty |date=April 11, 1991 |title=Flap ends protest of military policy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/311649191/ |work=The Lincoln Star }}</ref> Later in 1991, Queer Nation Nebraska produced a TV show consisting of two men kissing in a bathtub and pouring milk onto each other. The activists broadcast this show on [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]]'s [[public access television]]. Angry citizens asked the Lincoln City Council to shut down the public access channel.<ref>{{cite news |last=Swartzlander |first=David |date=September 3, 1991 |title=Community access channel to stay |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/312457550/ |work=Lincoln Journal }}</ref>

=== Houston ===
[[File:Queer Nation Houston x6.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Material used by Queer Nation in Houston]]Queer Nation in Houston was active from the beginning of 1991 through late 1994.  On July 13, 1991, the group held a major demonstration to protest police response to the July 4 gay-bashing murder of Paul Broussard; that demonstration involved between 1200 and 2000 individuals who seized the intersection of Montrose Boulevard and Westheimer Street at the heart of Houston's gay neighborhood.  Other actions by the group included a march in the suburban town that was the home of Broussard's killers, seizing the rotunda of Houston City Hall after another murder, protesting the ''[[Houston Post]]''{{'}}s firing of columnist Juan Palomo after he came out, and protesting discrimination against HIV-positive nurse Brian Bradley.  The group also took the lead in organizing LGBT and HIV/AIDS protests at the [[1992 Republican National Convention]] in Houston.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

=== Denver ===
Queer Nation/Denver began in November 2012 by Todd Alan Haley II, using the original Pink Panthers Patrol insignia of the pink triangle with the "clawed" panther's paw in the center. Going by the name: The Pink Panthers Movement /PPM, Haley wanted to ensure that the original message the Pink Panthers Patrol created was never lost, either by apathy or legal pressure brought on by MGM Pictures/Studios. What began with just 3 party members in June 2010, now their growth exceeds over 1200 active and supporting party members. Teaming up with various feminist groups along the US, The Pink Panthers Movement vows to remain a non-profit group dedicated to helping other LGBT non-profits and the Women's Liberation Front. The PPM's slogan: "Our Rights, Our Community!" and "Curb your homophobia, we bite back!"{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}

=== Utah ===
Queer Nation Utah was founded in January 1991 by Curtis Jensen, Melanie Bailey, and [[Connell O'Donovan]]. O'Donovan went to San Francisco in December 1990 to attend Queer Nation meetings there in order to learn about the organization and gather materials and ideas to share back in Utah. The group consisted of about 100 people with a core group of about a dozen people, about half women, half men, mostly white (with some Latinx, Polynesian, and Jewish) people, and several University of Utah students and one professor. Weekly planning meetings were held as well as regular focus group sessions. One of the focus groups produced four issues of the 'zine ''Queer Fuckers Magazine'' (QFM). Two major protests against [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] were held at their semi-annual General Conferences. Kiss-ins were held at two predominantly heterosexual venues (Denny's diner and a Gay-owned dance club) where homophobic incidents had occurred. They were physically attacked by a large crowd outside of an Andrew Dice Clay comedy concert that Queer Nation Utah was protesting.<ref>[[Henry D. Abelove|Abelove, Henry]], ''Deep Gossip'', University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp. 33-35.</ref>

=== Southeast ===
The Queer Nation chapters in Atlanta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Berea and Lexington, Kentucky; and Nashville, Tennessee founded by Kelvin Lynn Cothren and Cheryl Lynn Summerville were active in protesting known homophobic policies of the [[Cracker Barrel]] a restaurant chain in 1992.<ref name="qnn">{{citation |title=COMPANY NEWS; Gay Group Asks Accord In Job Dispute |first=Barbara Presley |last=Noble |date=November 25, 1992 |periodical=[[New York Times]] |access-date=2008-03-29 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0DF143BF936A15752C1A964958260 }}</ref>