ACT UP Pittsburgh is grateful that there are members of county council focusing on real issues instead of bullying children...
Tonight the Allegheny County Council Public Safety Committee will vote on an ordinance that would protect incarcerated trans and intersex people from sexual abuse regardless of federal rollbacks.
THURSDAY, MAY 14 AT 4:00P.M.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURTHOUSE - SUITE 119, CONFERENCE ROOM 1 - 436 GRANT STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15219, USA
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ACT UP Pittsburgh believes that abolition is inseparable from ending the AIDS crisis.
Incarceration concentrates and amplifies the conditions that drive HIV transmission including blocking access to healthcare, separating people from their communities, and exposing the most vulnerable to violence and abuse.
We cannot end AIDS without dismantling the systems that make people disposable. ACT UP Pittsburgh believes that protecting incarcerated people today and fighting to end incarceration altogether are not competing goals, they are the same struggle.
WE ARE ANGRY AND OUR ANGER IS MORE POWERFUL THAN YOUR SEAT ON THAT BENCH
LET THIS BE A WAKE UP CALL TO EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY AND ACROSS THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. ACT UP IS WATCHING, WE WILL NOT DIE QUIETLY, WE WILL NOT BE LEGISLATED OUT OF EXISTENCE, WE AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE.
DEATH BEFORE DETRANSITION!
PAT CATENA MUST BE REMOVED AS PRESIDENT OF COUNTY COUNCIL, NOT NEXT WEEK AFTER THE PRIMARY, NOT ON HIS TERMS, NOW!
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SAVE THE WATCH BECAUSE THE SHITS GETTIN REAL HIGH HERE!
Tonight at the Allegheny County Council meeting members of ACT UP Pittsburgh demanded that council take immediate action to remove Pat Catena as president.
We will not sit idly by and allow our elected leaders to use our community as political fodder. Not now, not ever.
Council is set to vote on his removal at the next meeting in two weeks.
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ACT UP PITTSBURGH IS CALLING ON PAT CATENA TO WITHDRAW FROM THE HOUSE DISTRICT 45 RACE AND TO RESIGN AS ALLEGHENY COUNTY COUNCIL PRESIDENT. WE WILL NOT STAND QUIETLY BY AS OUR BODIES ARE USED AS PAWNS TO SCORE DESPERATE POLITICAL POINTS. ALLEGHENY COUNTY DESERVES BETTER.
JOIN US AT COUNTY COUNCIL ON TUESDAY 5/12 AT 5:00P.M. TO DEMAND PAT CATENA STEP DOWN!
ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURTHOUSE - SUITE 119, CONFERENCE ROOM 1 - 436 GRANT STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15219, USA
The AIDS crisis ISN’T OVER! Immigrants in ICE detention are denied access to HIV testing and treatment. This is medical neglect. Shut down Moshannon. Abolish ICE.
The president's FY 2027 budget proposes eliminating or deeply cutting nearly every major federal HIV program.
Congress MUST reject these cuts. Our lives are at risk and we will NOT die quietly.
Source: hivma.org (read more @ link in bio)
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B-B-B-BACK ONCE AGAIN! 💥
Join us next Saturday, 4/11 at 5 pm for another Queer 2A Meet & Greet with our friends at @actuppgh and @haroldshaunt !
We'll be making new friends, reuniting with familiar faces, and discussing the importance of arming yourself & your queer kin. Let's keep the ball rolling and build strong coalitions for defending our vulnerable community from hate-based violence. We keep us safe - and we also keep third spaces open and filled with good vibes!
After the Meet & Greet, Harold's will be hosting Dream Role Drag. We encourage everyone to buy a drag show ticket online or at the door, to support our local performers and keep critical queer community spaces thriving.
We'll provide a link to Dream Role Drag tickets in the story post & Events highlight ⚧️💪🏼🩷
See you there!
#2a #lgbtcommunity #pittsburgh #queerselfdefense #supportqueerbusiness
thank you @actuppgh for inviting me to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility with them with a hormone-in in front of UPMC (shame!) 🏳️⚧️ together, UPMC and the federal government have increased restrictions on trans healthcare.
as trans youth lose access to life saving healthcare, Act Up calls on local and state officials to stand with us. public funding for trans healthcare! now!
This Trans Day of Visibility members of Act Up held a “hormone in” to highlight increasing restrictions on trans healthcare from UPMC and the federal government.
As trans youth lose access to life saving healthcare, Act Up calls on local and state officials to stand with us. Public funding for trans healthcare now!
PHOTO CREDIT @jayefrances_imagery
