safewalk-0409.jpgRightRides, a volunteer program that has been offering women, transgender and gender queer individuals free rides home on Saturday nights since 2004, is expanding into the walking business. On Friday nights, the group will provide someone to walk you home between 11 pm and 2 am. More info here. There’s also a meeting for interested volunteers tonight at Verb Cafe in W’burg at 7 pm.


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  1. According to the website..

    Safe Walk ’09 will operate every Friday night
    from 11 PM – 2 AM
    in the following neighborhoods :

    Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Greenpoint, Williamsburg

  2. im a 13 year old girl trapped in the body of a 32 year old man. do i qualify then as gender queer? this program is awesome in that it aims at keeping women safe. however excluding anyone who might be unsafe is bad. and honestly the only “transgendered” this program helps are tranny hookers get home safe from working the docks.

    *rob*

  3. I think this is a great program
    but sorry why limit it to just women and gay folks?
    I know plenty of straight men who have been mugged walking home slightly tipsy from a bar
    strength in numbers!!! – I think a punk robber will thin twice if it’s a couple of people walking home than one lone dude,woman or tranny
    I hope it expands to anyone needing a safe ride or walk home!!!

  4. The folks I know who identify as gender queer tend to describe it as being fluid with their gender – don’t fully identify as a man or a woman / or alternatively they feel as if they are a woman trapped in a man’s body or vice versa. There are no hard and fast rules on the definition though. It tends to mean something different to everyone.

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