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Cuba

Open letter to LGBTQ+ activists: Learn from Cuba! End the blockade!

October 9, 2022 Melinda Butterfield
In September, Serena Brennerman, a 16-year-old white trans woman, was found drowned in Salem, Oregon. Serena’s death was ruled a suicide by the police. But her friends and community don’t believe it. She was physically […]
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Struggle for trans rights and socialism go hand in hand

August 22, 2022 Melinda Butterfield
Based on remarks at the Socialist Unity Party national plenum on Aug. 13. On Aug. 12, the state of Florida announced new guidelines to end all gender-affirming care for trans adults and children who receive […]
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What’s behind the escalating attacks on trans people?

July 25, 2022 Melinda Butterfield
Thirty-one members of the white supremacist Patriot Front from across the U.S. were detained after preparing an assault on a Pride festival in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, June 12. On the July 4 weekend in Camden, […]
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Queer Liberation Marchers vow to fight back

July 2, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
On Pride Sunday, June 26, many thousands flooded the streets of lower Manhattan for the 4th annual Queer Liberation March. The theme of this year’s march was “For Trans and BIPOC Freedom, Reproductive Justice and […]
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Solidarity with Cuba, trans people at Queens Pride

June 7, 2022 Melinda Butterfield
  Thousands of people gathered in the multinational immigrant neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York, for the 25th Queens Pride Parade June 5. For the past two years the event was held virtually […]
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Pride Month announcement from Struggle-La Lucha co-editor

June 7, 2022 Melinda Butterfield
Following is a special announcement from the co-editor of Struggle-La Lucha, formerly known as Greg Butterfield. Happy Pride Month! I have some personal news to share with Struggle-La Lucha readers. I’m proud to say that […]
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Resist capitalist ‘trans panic’ strategy

June 5, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
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Pride 2022: Resist capitalist ‘trans panic’ strategy

May 30, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha
The Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper salute the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirit community as we mark the 53rd anniversary of the heroic Stonewall Rebellion. The spirit of […]
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U.S.-NATO war and attacks on trans rights: Two fronts in the class war

April 21, 2022 Greg Butterfield
In Texas and Alabama, transgender youth are facing forcible detransition. A law passed by Alabama’s legislature and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey April 8, and an executive order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in February, […]
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, Baltimore Safe Haven vandalized

April 15, 2022 Ellie McCrow
On March 31 — the International Transgender Day of Visibility — Baltimore Safe Haven reported that their Charles Village office had been vandalized with a bigoted message that read “Fuck Pride DIE.”  Founded in 2018, […]