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The Birkenstock Generation (ages 35 to 50)
* Meeting style: consensus-oriented; the process counts as much as the product.* Values: anti-racist, anti-sexist agenda combined with lesbian-and-gay activism; focused on broad changes in society.
* Type of organizing: setting up alternative institutions (newsletters, speakers' bureaus, voter-registration campaigns), picketing, leafleting, civil disobedience to raise visiblity of gays and lesbians.
Queer World (ages 26 to 35)
* Meeting style: MTV meets Robert's Rules of Order. Fast-paced, designed for quick action.* Values: crisis-oriented, specifically influenced by the AIDS crisis; focused on saving lives.
* Type of organizing: graffiti, "zaps" and other forms of street theater, civil disobedience to demonstrate anger of gays and lesbians, shutting down institutions, grabbing immediate media attention.
