Our Leaders
You can get in contact with us by either filling out the below form, e-mailing lgbtliberaction@gmail.com, or by calling 214-679-6321. If you would like to be added to Queer Liberaction's email list, please fill out the form and put "subscribe" in the message field. You will recieve a few updates a month on the latest QL news.
Blake Wilkinson: Founder & and Leader of Finance and Public Relations
Blake Wilkinson is a native Dallasite, who after being away for 8 years returned in August of 2008. As founding member of Queer Liberaction, Blake hoped to start a movement building, direct action GLBT organization which Dallas was lacking at the time of QL's inception. Blake currently works for a mental health non-profit and lives in Uptown.
Email: lgbtliberaction@gmail.com Phone: 214-679-6321
Corban Bates: Leader of Street Team Activism
"Corban, originally from Houston, is now a proud resident of Dallas. Though young, he loves to fight for lgbt and human rights any way he can. Brought up by a loving, but thoroughly anti-gay family, he has had plenty of experience in discrimination. He maintains his belief in the human race and the goodness in people. 'We shall overcome someday.' - Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger."
Email: lecorbano@aim.com
Kyle Erwin: Leader of Clerical Duties
To some extent, all healthy individuals will experience themselves as outside the boundaries of society. They will experience themselves as aliens, always potential targets for the violence of society. Alienation is thus the condition of the mature person, of the fully aware person, as long as society remains insane. (Denes-Radomisli, 1976).
Email: kerwin@twu.edu,
Joe Remsik: Leader of Community Development in Fort Worth
Joe is a proud Fort Worth resident, having moved here in 2008 from Chicago. Joe holds a Master's degree in social work and is the manager of an outpatient children's mental health clinic as well as sees patients for therapy in the Fort Worth area. Joe is a firm believer that direct action is vital in Fort Worth to make the public aware of the discrimination that the GLBT community faces. In Chicago, Joe was very active in the LGBT community and is excited to bring his knowledge to Fort Worth.
Email: contella2003@yahoo.com
Rich McPhee: Leader of Communication, Information and Membership
Rich is originally from Boston, Massachusetts and moved to Dallas about two years ago. Rich is working on his Masters Degree in Liberal Studies at Southern Methodist University. Rich is also an active member of Spectrum SMU’s LGBT Student Group. Rich’s ultimate goal is to bring the importance of LGBT issues into the academic field of study. Rich feels the struggles of LGBT individuals tell their own story throughout American history. Rich states” The force of the Gay Revolution has revitalized the understanding of homosexuality in society. However, the recent marriage inequalities that have surfaced in California indicate the need for direct action activism in our community. LGBT individuals will never be given full rights unless we get out in the streets and demand our equal rights.”
Email: rmcphee@smu.edu
Elizabeth Pax: Queer Liberaction Ambassador
A graduate student studying English and the lead singer for local band Tea for Twenty, Pax serves as Dallas organizer for Join the Impact, the national grassroots organization that staged the City Hall protests last November in response to California’s Proposition 8. Pax has also been involved with Queer Liberaction, a newly formed LGBT direct action group in Dallas. Pax said she’s especially proud of a recent Freedom to Marry rally that included an elaborate same-sex wedding ceremony in Founders Plaza followed by a procession into the Dallas County Records Building to request a marriage license.
Email: elizabethpax@gmail.com
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