PROUD FAGGOTS
NEON XEROX RESISTANCE ZINE
FOR THE QUEERS WHO DON'T FIT YOUR POLITICS
FOR THE SEX WORKERS WHO TELL THE TRUTH
FOR THE ACTIVISTS WHO CALL OUT CULT SHIT
FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT SURVIVES TOGETHER
CONTENTS / NAVIGATION
Cut this out, tape it to your wall, use it to navigate the resistance.
"Knowledge belongs to the communities that create it."
— Back Cover Wisdom
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
NAVIGATE THE RESISTANCE
TOC
COMMUNITY FUCKING TRUTH
"This is what the CIA literally says to do... start infighting and start gaslighting people and drag shit out and relitigate every single detail of every little thing so that nothing is done."
— Real Talk From The Streets
We see through your bullshit organizing. We know the difference between real solidarity and performative activism.
TRUTH BOMB: When marginalized communities speak, we're not your fucking data. We're the theory. We're the knowledge. We're the goddamn experts on our own lives.
These voices are INSURGENT political literacy that cuts through academic jargon and activist purity politics.
FIELD NOTE: Stop trying to extract wisdom from our communities to legitimize your careers. Start LISTENING to learn how to actually fight.
01
CALLING OUT CULT LEADER SHIT
"Abby has always seemed to me to be a cult leader. Like, literally, a cult. They fucking worship her, and they believe everything she says about this political shit."
— Someone Who Sees Through It
RECOGNIZE THE PATTERNS
We know cult dynamics when we see them:
• Uncritical worship of charismatic leaders
• Closed information echo chambers
• Can't question anything without being attacked
• Everyone outside is the enemy
• Your trauma gets weaponized for their agenda
COMMUNITY WISDOM: "There's an outer arena, people who are much more reasonable... sympathetic to the protests, but are not willing to do shit like that."
We can tell the difference between principled organizing and destructive group dynamics.
WE ARE NOT YOUR CULT MEMBERS
02
IDENTITY ISN'T A TRUMP CARD
"Just because you have the most identities or the most marginalizations does not make your voice or your logic irrefutable."
— Rejecting Oppression Olympics
We're tired of people weaponizing identity to avoid accountability.
PERFORMATIVITY TRAP ALERT:
"They intentionally use their sort of gender ambiguity to trick people into misgendering them and then accuse them of being transphobic."
Identity categories are tools for organizing, not GET OUT OF JAIL FREE cards.
COMMUNITY WISDOM: Marginalization gives you experience, not immunity from criticism. Real solidarity means we can call each other in AND out.
"Everything is an abuse to her... she joins organizations to destroy them by making it all about her."
— Pattern Recognition Skills
ACCOUNTABILITY OVER IDENTITY
03
DANCE FLOOR AS SACRED SPACE
"It was nice to be really high and really rushing in waves on the dance floor with my shirt off, rubbing up against a bunch of other people who also were very sweaty."
— Embodied Community Knowledge
The rave is our laboratory of collective consciousness where bodies become sites of resistance and connection.
DECOLONIZING CONSCIOUSNESS:
Dance floors = temporary autonomous zones where touch becomes methodology of connection, not consumption.
This is what academic spaces don't understand about embodied knowledge:
• Harm reduction as collective care practice
• Shared dosing as equity practice
• Music as consciousness technology
• Touch as political resistance
• Altered states as legitimate knowledge production
"Everyone gets the same dose, and it's advanced harm reduction."
— Mutual Aid Praxis
We reject ABSTINENCE morality and center user-generated safety knowledge.
04
MEAT SPACE > INTERNET DISCOURSE
"Let's just talk about the things in meat space... as opposed to on the internet... discourse versus reality, discourse versus reality."
— Preferring Real Conversation
We're tired of performative online politics that silence real experiences.
"There's a particular purity model of a sex worker that makes it really hard for trans sex workers and forever sex workers and imperfect sex workers... to be honest and talk about what we need."
DIGITAL DETOX POLITICS:
• Real accountability needs physical presence
• Complex shit needs nuance that Twitter kills
• Trust builds through shared risk
• Honest dialogue requires vulnerability
RECKLESS ABANDON IS THE REALITY
Stop creating impossible standards that harm the people you claim to support.
"If you're not fucking collecting $1,000 off the dresser... you're failing. And not just a failure... but also repugnant and harming our community."
— Calling Out Purity Politics
REALITY OVER RHETORIC
05
MUTUAL AID = SURVIVAL
"They literally take care of each other because all they have is each other."
— Encampment Community Truth
This is what prefigurative politics actually looks like:
MUTUAL AID PRINCIPLES:
• Horizontal care networks
• Resource sharing that models post-capitalism
• Collective decision-making
• Justice without calling cops
Community SAFETY comes through relationship, not punishment.
"If they allow the encampments to flourish, it will get smaller, because... they bring their tents together. So it's one big hut."
— Organic Community Formation
When people's needs are met through collective care, community gets stronger, not weaker.
FIELD OBSERVATION: Scarcity creates competition. Abundance creates cooperation. Mutual aid creates community resilience that can survive anything.
06
SHARED PAIN = SHARED POWER
"If I allow myself to think about that suffering is inherently shared... everyone is suffering and take myself out of the singularity of it... this is things we all have in common."
— Philosophical Breakthrough
This insight came during a mental health crisis—transforming isolation into connection through recognizing universal human experience.
COMMUNITY SPIRITUALITY:
Buddhist wisdom + street knowledge + lived experience = tools for processing life's shit together
"I looked outside, and I saw this man walking down the street holding his kid's hand... I just thought like, Well, I hope he's not feeling as bad as I'm feeling. And then, something cracked open."
This is how PHILOSOPHY actually works—turning personal crisis into community connection through empathy.
SUFFERING IS WHAT WE SHARE
Shared vulnerability > shared identity as foundation for solidarity.
07
TACTICS THAT ACTUALLY WORK
"I've set up an overdose prevention site in Barbara Hall Park... in protest of the 519's inaction on harm reduction. And now they're the main harm reduction place in the village. They listened."
— Direct Action That Gets Results
We know the difference between effective organizing and performative bullshit.
WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS:
• Concrete material action
• Meeting real community needs
• Building alternatives while critiquing
• Relationships across difference
WHAT'S BULLSHIT:
• Twitter call-outs without solutions
• Purity politics preventing coalition
• Individual moral performance
• Echo chambers excluding strategy
Real change requires strategic flexibility, not ideological orthodoxy.
"There's a lot more in common than you think."
— Coalition Building Wisdom
ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE: Pragmatic solidarity > moral perfectionism. Tactical diversity strengthens resistance.
08
REFUSE ACADEMIC EXTRACTION
These voices don't need your academic translation—WE ARE the theory.
METHODOLOGICAL REVOLUTION:
• Community members as co-theorists, not research subjects
• Lived experience as primary scholarship
• Collective analysis over individual academic interpretation
• Accessible sharing, not institutional gatekeeping
"How do we diffuse that algorithm? How do we defuse that... I want them to get away from the screen and into our reality."
— Media Critique & Real Organizing
The academy's job isn't to EXPLAIN us to itself, but to LEARN FROM the theoretical frameworks we've developed through struggle.
INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY REQUIRED
Position yourselves as students of movements, not experts on our experiences.
09
THE MARGINS AS METHOD
"The revolution has always been theoretical. The margins have always been methodological. The question is whether the center will finally listen."
— Final Fucking Provocation
When we speak, we don't just inform your analysis—we fundamentally reconfigure what counts as knowledge, who counts as theorist, how transformation happens.
These voices offer methods for:
• Decolonizing knowledge by centering experience
• Queering practice by embracing complexity
• Revolutionizing care through relationship
• Transforming scholarship by refusing extraction
FINAL WISDOM:
"We all experience one emotion, which is pain. So I can empathize with anybody... because it's one thing that probably all experience."
SHARED vulnerability > shared identity as foundation for real solidarity.
REMEMBER: Every time we speak these truths, we create space for alternative knowledge production. Language itself becomes resistance.
THE FUTURE IS RELATIONAL
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COMMUNITY VOICES
These are the people whose voices build this zine. Names changed, experiences real, wisdom intact.
SPEAKER 1:
Older community member who's survived serious violence. Experienced with MDMA, mushrooms, acid. Former trumpet player. Reflects on social position and growing up queer. Protective of community spaces like the 519.
SPEAKER 2:
Neurodivergent community member, struggles with punctuality and overwhelm. Passionate about LGBTQ+ rights, critiques Christianity's influence. Has "band astrology" theory. Knows people who "never tell lies."
SPEAKER 3:
Former second trombone player who wanted to play bassoon. Shares wild sexual stories (Monaco incident). Did acid mostly solo in high school. Chaos management specialist.
EVAN SCHULTZ:
POSTER BOY for acid's positive effects. LSD cured their anxiety for 3 years, helped with accounting. Comments on identity, marginalization, systemic hypocrisy.
"Robin, Ali, and Tim—three people I know who never tell lies and always speak what they believe to be the truth."
— Speaker 2's Truth-Tellers
COMMUNITY NETWORK INCLUDES:
• Tamar: "For all the shit she talks, not trying to tell lies"
• Jamie: Key 519 figure, fiercely protected by community
• Nikki: Drag performer, bar scene connector
• Eric: "A force" in the scene, DJ energy
• Poncho: Party organizer, BET Way events
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TIMELINE OF RESISTANCE
ONGOING STRUGGLE
PRE-COLONIAL TO PRESENT:
Continuous violence against LGBTQ+ people. "Gay rights" always a "political game"—what's given can be stripped away. Christianity, colonialism, capitalism shaping norms around bodies, sexuality, "God's will."
DRUG CULTURE EVOLUTION:
• Historical prevalence (ecstasy with speed, "Philly e-bills")
• Developing harm reduction (measuring doses, clean supplies)
• Changing attitudes over time
• Community knowledge vs. medical authority
"I was doing MDMA every weekend vs. now"
— Speaker 1, Evolution of Use
TORONTO QUEER ORGANIZING:
Built from voices of harm reduction activists, sex workers, housing justice organizers. Ice skating with "queer legends." The 519 doing "damn good job" despite challenges.
FIELD NOTE: This timeline isn't linear—it's cyclical, repetitive, ongoing. Same struggles, new faces, deeper wisdom.
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EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE
"Everyone gets the same dose, and it's advanced harm reduction."
ALEX'S 40TH BIRTHDAY PARTY:
Speaker 3's first MDMA in 15 years. Friend took two pills, rolled in Uber, lost wallet and phone. Problem-solving while half-high = community care in action.
EVAN'S ANXIETY BREAKTHROUGH:
Strong LSD trip, sitting on park bench by Winchester. Profound realization about being in control. Removed need for anxiety meds for 3 years. Acid "come down" helped understand accounting.
SPEAKER 2'S STAGE INCIDENT:
Jumped on stage during Evan's performance while on MDMA. "Properly exited from the stage." EMBARRASSMENT as learning.
KETAMINE DOOR MYSTERIES:
• Evan at Opera House: couldn't understand how doors worked
• Speaker 1 with mushrooms + acid: bathroom door difficulties
• Doors as metaphor for consciousness barriers
"I was peaking while working behind a bar, interacting with drag performer Nikki"
— Speaker 1, Work + Altered States
HARM REDUCTION WISDOM: These aren't cautionary tales—they're knowledge production. Learning through experience, sharing through story.
13
PARK TRANSFORMATIONS
"Significant changes in the park over the last two months since the SAS closed—different people, new people, different vibes, a lot more people there and doing a lot more shit."
When services get cut, communities adapt. When spaces change, people find new ways to survive.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SUPPORT DISAPPEARS:
• Different people, new dynamics
• More activity, different needs
• Community self-organization
• Informal networks strengthen
PRIDE TOMORROW (June 30, 2025):
• Party at BET Way with Poncho
• Community gathering despite everything
• Celebration as resistance
OBSERVATION: Even when official support systems fail, queer community creates its own infrastructure. The park becomes what we need it to be.
SPACES TRANSFORM, COMMUNITY SURVIVES
"Ice skating with queer legends in the building"
— Speaker 7, Community Joy
14
SEXUAL TRUTH TELLING
"Monaco sex act: condom filled with urine used for volleyball"
This is what sex-positive community actually looks like—not sanitized academic theory, but REAL experiences shared without shame.
CONSENT COMPLEXITY:
Speaker 2's apartment manager situation—sexual harassment after consensual encounters. Power dynamics don't disappear because you said yes once.
SEX WORK REALITY CHECK:
• "Prime of working the sex parties" while on mushrooms + acid
• Altered states + labor
• Community knowledge vs. purity politics
• Real experiences vs. theoretical frameworks
TRUTH: Sex workers know more about consent, safety, and pleasure than most academics writing about it. Listen to us.
"There's a particular purity model of a sex worker that makes it really hard for trans sex workers and forever sex workers and imperfect sex workers to be honest and talk about what we need."
MESSY TRUTH > CLEAN THEORY
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COPY & DISTRIBUTE
Built from the voices of Toronto's queer community, harm reduction activists, sex workers, and housing justice organizers.
XEROX IT. PASTE IT. REMIX IT.
Knowledge belongs to the communities that create it.
CONTENT WARNING:
Explicit discussion of substance use, sex work, community conflict, mental health crisis. Centers marginalized voices as primary knowledge sources. Challenges academic and activist authority.
Created in solidarity with communities fighting for survival, dignity, and transformation.
FOR THE PROUD FAGGOTS WHO REFUSE TO FIT YOUR POLITICS