Author: Melinda Butterfield

 Excerpts from a presentation at the Socialist Unity Party national plenum on Dec. 16, 2023. It’s no exaggeration to say that the Oct. 7 National March to Protect Trans Youth was a milestone event […]

Thousands of people joined a Queers for Palestine march in New York City on Nov. 12. The crowd was young, militant, and angry about the deluge of Israeli pinkwashing aimed at the LGBTQ+ community in […]

[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=”] [/su_column][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=”] [/su_column][/su_row]  Oct. 13 – Palestinians in Gaza are facing genocide. Now, today. Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists claim that Israel controls the U.S. government. Just the opposite is […]

[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=”] https://www.facebook.com/transyouthmarch/videos/6939894852737108 [/su_column][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=”]   [/su_column][/su_row] Talk given by Melinda Butterfield at the Oct. 7 National March to Protect Trans Youth in Orlando, Florida. Butterfield is a member of Women […]

Thousands of people flooded the streets of lower Manhattan on Pride Sunday, June 25, for the fifth annual Queer Liberation March. This year’s theme was “Trans and Queer, Forever Here,” in defiance of the more […]

 Returning from 12 days in Cuba in mid-May, I spent an uncomfortably long six-hour layover at the Miami airport, waiting for my connecting flight to New York. It wasn’t uncomfortable just because of the […]

“New York is a union town, the queers are here to shut you down!”  The chant rang out loud and strong through Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood on June 1, the first day of LGBTQ+ Pride […]