We the Radical Queers of the United States,
In order to form a more perfect Union
In this moment of domestic and international war
Waged by a lying, illegitimate pseudo-president;
And in order to establish actual Justice by creating it Ourselves
In a society constructed on
Injustice, Lies, Hate, and Fear;
And in order to insure domestic Tranquility even as our government wages cruel war against the nation’s Peace by pitting the People of this country against each other and the rest of the world;
And in order to provide for the common Defense of Lesbian, Transit, and Gay peoples
who have been denied Life and Liberty by a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations against their Safety and Happiness,
Or Worse, by a government that can Not represent us,
and who have been attacked by the President and his far right hatchet men, many state governments across the union, a savage and homophobic citizenry authorized to assault or murder us for our existence by official and religious sanction institutions which deny us rights of visitation and rights of estate, false “emancipation” in the form of marriage rights that we do Not want ourselves;
And in order to secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and to our Posterity which we do Not fully enjoy but which we deserve and are taking Without Permission;
We do proclaim that we Pissed-Off Queers stand in resistance to this Form of Government destructive of these Ends,
and with this Declaration do Seize our Right and our Duty to throw off, after or abolish such Government, and do finally assert and declare ourselves to be free and independent people,
moving us closer to a New United States based on Peace, Love, and Justice instead of Domination, Money, and War.
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Chapters | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ☛ 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10Booklet distributed anonymously during the Gay Pride Parade 2005 New York City.
The original is a folded and stapled 4x6-inch 26 page color-printed booklet.
This edition derived from actup/New York, and here updated and reformatted.