{"id":32554,"date":"2017-05-10T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=32554"},"modified":"2017-05-10T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:17:07","slug":"depaul-forbids-gay-lives-matter-posters-students-protest-gay-reporters-talk-radical-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/depaul-forbids-gay-lives-matter-posters-students-protest-gay-reporters-talk-radical-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"DePaul forbids \u2018Gay Lives Matter\u2019 posters as students protest gay reporter&#8217;s talk on radical Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DePaul University has prohibited the campus group Turning Point USA from displaying posters with the slogan \u201cGay Lives Matter\u201d to advertise a presentation Wednesday by a gay reporter on radical Islam\u2019s discrimination against the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to reject the posters was made as some students at the school protest the event, titled \u201cDictatorships and Radical Islam: The Enemies of Gay Rights\u201d and to be given by journalist and foreign correspondent James Kirchick.<\/p>\n<p>Kirchick has worked for numerous publications, foreign and domestic, and is considered a leading voice on American gay politics and international gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>But DePaul Students for Justice in Palestine has indicated on Facebook that its members intend to protest the event. Students leading the charge against his talk appear to have left out any mention of the fact that Kirchick is gay as they sound the alarm on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere&#8217;s the call for protests of my talk tonight at @DePaulU &#8220;Dictatorships and Radical Islam: Enemies of LGBTQ Rights.&#8221; Notice missing word?\u201d Kirckich tweeted out early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here&#8217;s the call for protests of my talk tonight at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DePaulU\">@DePaulU<\/a> &#8220;Dictatorships and Radical Islam: Enemies of LGBTQ Rights.&#8221; Notice missing word? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zgesx9zSuJ\">pic.twitter.com\/zgesx9zSuJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Kirchick (@jkirchick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jkirchick\/status\/862316367583875072\">May 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He cites a Facebook post from a DePaul student affiliated with SJP who wrote that \u201cTurning point DePaul (check out that horror below, is bringing James Kirchick, a white, Zionist, neoliberal journalist, to speak on sh*t he knows nothing about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be turning up to counter,\u201d the student continued, \u201cnot in our f***ing name will you pretend to define our safety, and where danger comes from. Not in our f***ing name will you continue to demonize Islam and Muslims and ignore the radical Christian right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The talk is slated for 5:30 p.m. May 10.<\/p>\n<p>As for the &#8220;Gay Lives Matter&#8221; posters, Amy Mynaugh, director of the Office of Student Involvement at the Catholic university, denied them on the grounds that \u201cusing the same look\/brand as BLM [Black Lives Matter] pits two marginalized groups against each other,\u201d according to an email she sent to Turning Point USA that was obtained by <em>The College Fix<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32557 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GayLivesMatter-259x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GayLivesMatter-259x400.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GayLivesMatter-71x110.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GayLivesMatter-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GayLivesMatter.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t appear that Turning Point has any connection to the Black Lives Matter movement and this seems to simply be co-opting another movement\u2019s approach,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Turning Point USA\u2019s DePaul chapter had intended to use the posters to advertise the speech, a spokesman for the group told <em>The College Fix<\/em>. DePaul TPUSA president Jason Plotzke said via email that the poster effectively advertises the event and highlights its purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly it makes no sense to have it not approved,\u201d Plotzke said. \u201cThe statement is very simple and you could not market such an event any better and eye catching. When people see that statement, they will either agree or disagree, but the point is getting people to see the message, and we firmly believe that it would have been effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plotzke also disagrees with Mynaugh\u2019s reasoning for denying the poster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not see how the branding of Black Lives Matter is exclusive from all other lives and we cannot make a similar statement in a different movement,\u201d he said. \u201cSure, it is related and based off the BLM slogan, but with no intent to undermine the movement. We are not even using the poster to push an entire movement, but rather a specific event. We, as students in an academic setting, should be allowed to market our events as we see fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Lamb, director of campus integrity at TPUSA, also expressed his dissatisfaction with DePaul\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a disappointing decision by the university to prohibit our poster,\u201d Lamb told <em>The College Fix<\/em> via email. \u201cThe event by our DePaul chapter is calling attention to the harms that big government, authoritarian regimes pose to LGBT citizen&#8217;s most basic human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the university also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/29560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refused to allow<\/a> the DePaul College Republicans from posting \u201cUnborn Lives Matter\u201d posters as well. Lamb said he was aware the \u201cGay Lives Matter\u201d posters might also be rejected by campus leaders, but that &#8220;the school questioned why we were using the phrase when our event is clearly about the abuse towards LGBT people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Students for Justice in Palestine distributed posters earlier this week, claiming that they \u201csay NO to Turning Point\u2019s nationalist agenda\u201d and that \u201cqueer liberation is always anti-racist and anti-imperialist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DePaul university declined <em>The Fix\u2019s<\/em> request for comment about the posters or protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/32517\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Students protest gay conservative speaker as he defends free speech at Portland State<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/29560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catholic university bans \u2018Unborn Lives Matter\u2019 posters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecollegefix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Like <em>The College Fix<\/em> on Facebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/collegefix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Enemies of Gay Rights&#8217; speech under fire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":821,"featured_media":32556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1085,1077],"tags":[3960,24414,24415,8795],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GLM1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-8t4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32555,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32554\/revisions\/32555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}