page_title: Queer Nation
section_title: Houston
hierarchical_section_title: Queer Nation / Queer Nation in other locales / Houston
caption_attribution_description: English: Promotional material used by Queer Nation Houston.
context_page_description: Queer Nation is an LGBTQ activist organization founded in March 1990 in New York City, by HIV/AIDS activists from ACT UP. The four founders were outraged at the escalation of anti-gay violence on the streets and prejudice in the arts and media. The group is known for its confrontational tactics, its slogans, and the practice of outing.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Material used by Queer Nation in Houston
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