Against Equality

Against Equality is an anti-capitalist collective of radical queer and trans writers, thinkers, and artists.{{cite news|url=http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews39_13/page18.cfm |title='Equality' beyond marriage - An interview with activist Ryan Conrad |publisher=Sgn.org |date=2011-04-01 |access-date=2014-06-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228033844/http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews39_13/page18.cfm |archive-date=2014-02-28 }}{{cite web|url=http://cultmontreal.com/2013/01/hate-crime-legislation-has-failed-us-against-equality/ |title=Hate Crime Legislation has Failed Us: Against Equality |publisher=Cultmontreal.com |date=2013-01-22 |access-date=2014-06-29}} AE maintains an online archive of written work and cultural references. AE has also self-published three anthologies that highlight work from the three sections of their online archive.{{cite web|url=http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/books/91564/gay-divorce |title=Gay Divorce |publisher=Timeoutchicago.com |access-date=2014-06-29}} These three anthologies were combined into a single book and was published by AK Press in April 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.akpress.org/againstequality-5365.html |title=Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion from |publisher=AK Press |date=2014-03-20 |access-date=2014-06-29 |archive-date=2015-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905234028/http://www.akpress.org/againstequality-5365.html |url-status=dead }}

AE published its first book in the fall of 2010. Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage contains essays and op-ed pieces by prominent queer thinkers, including Kate Bornstein, Eric A. Stanley, Dean Spade, Craig Willse, Kenyon Farrow, Kate Raphael, Deeg, John D'Emilio, Ryan Conrad, Yasmin Nair, MJ Kaufman, Katie Miles, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8801547-against-equality |title=Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage on |publisher=Goodreads.com |access-date=2014-06-29}} Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage ranked sixth on AK Press Distribution's Top 10 of 2010 list.{{cite web|url=http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/top-10-of-2010-ak-press-distribution/ |title=Top 10 of 2010: AK Press Distribution |publisher=Revolutionbythebook.akpress.org |date=2011-01-19 |access-date=2014-06-29}}

A.E published the second book, Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars, in the fall of 2011 and contains a collection of essays and illustrations critiquing the mainstream gay and lesbian politics and its uncritical approach to Don't ask, don't tell.{{Cite web|url=http://www.homotopiafilm.net/index.php/2011/07/21/books-books-and-more-books/|publisher=Homotopia Criminal Queers|title=Books, books and more books|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723012245/http://www.homotopiafilm.net/index.php/2011/07/21/books-books-and-more-books/|date=21 July 2011|archive-date=23 July 2012}} Contributors include Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Kenyon Farrow, Cecilia Cissell Lucas, Yasmin Nair, Erica Meiners, Therese Quinn, Tamara K. Nopper, Larry Goldsmith, Jamal Rashad Jones, Bill Andriette, and illustrator Mr. Fish.{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12151763-against-equality |title=Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars on |publisher=Goodreads.com |access-date=2014-06-29}}

AE published the third and final book in its trilogy, Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You, in the fall of 2012. This book focuses on hate crime law and the prison industrial complex.{{cite news|author=Materville Studios - Host of Windy City Times |url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Against-Equality-launches-new-book-on-DADT-/37432.html |title=Against Equality launches new book on DADT |publisher=Windycitymediagroup.com |access-date=2014-06-29}} Contributors include Dean Spade, Jason Lydon, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Liliana Segura, Jack Aponte, Yasmin Nair, Imani Keith Henry, Sébastien Barraud, Erica Meiners, Liam Michaud, Josh Pavan, and Bridget Simpson.{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15979911-against-equality |title=Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You on |publisher=Goodreads.com |access-date=2014-06-29}}

AK Press released a three-in-one anthology titled Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion in March 2014 that combines the collective's previous three anthologies and includes a new introduction from the collective.{{cite web|url=http://akpressdistro.tumblr.com/post/77087609424/editor-q-a-with-ryan-conrad-of-against-equality |title=Editor Q&A with Ryan Conrad of Against Equality |publisher=Akpressdistro.tumblr.com |date=2014-02-18 |access-date=2014-06-29}}

Members of the Against Equality collective have also traveled extensively to speak at bookstores, community spaces, colleges, and universities across the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.{{cite web|url=http://www.againstequality.org/events/ |title=Events Listing |publisher=Against Equality |access-date=2014-06-29}}

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• Anarcho-queer
• Pink capitalism
• Gay Shame
• LGBT social movements
• Queercore
• Queeruption
• Gay Liberation
• Gay Liberation Front
• Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT-rights group with a similar logo
• Homotopia

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• [http://www.againstequality.org Against Equality Archive] — official website
• [http://www.akpress.org/againstequality-5365.html AK Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905234028/http://www.akpress.org/againstequality-5365.html |date=2015-09-05 }} — Against Equality at AK Press

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