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From Palestine to Pride: Louisiana Northshore shows solidarity with all oppressed

June 12, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
 June 1, Mandeville, Louisiana – Despite increasing attacks on the community from well-funded, far-right organizations, the Northshore region of Louisiana held its first-ever Pride Parade this June. Around 500 people marched, and an impressive […]
Queersforpalestine
LGBTQ+

Pride 2024: Solidarity with Gaza

June 1, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
 Meet danger with resistance LGBTQIA+ people greet Pride Month this year with a mixture of joy, fear, and anger.  Joy at the annual celebration of our vibrant, diverse community and our struggle for liberation, […]
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LGBTQ+

Cisgender activists speak: Why is supporting trans rights important?

June 1, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
 Andre Powell, retired AFSCME leader, longtime gay activist  A mere decade after the Stonewall Rebellion, as the LGBTQIA+ community was winning some victories, the right wing began mobilizing to take them away. It began […]
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Im/migrants and refugees

On May Day, New Orleans celebrates diverse working class

May 10, 2024 Gregory E. Williams
New Orleans, May 1 – Immigrant-worker organization Unión Migrante led a march to celebrate the international workers’ holiday, which has been revived across the country in recent years by immigrant activists.  The march began on […]
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May Day 2024: Resist the witch-hunts!

May 1, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
On International Workers’ Day 2024, workers in the U.S. could swear that Senator Joe McCarthy and Minister Cotton Mather had returned from the dead. More than 35,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, have died in just […]
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LGBTQ+

Opinion: England’s anti-trans Cass Review is politics disguised as science

April 20, 2024 Erin Reed
The recent report borrows from DeSantis bans on transgender care in Florida and appears designed to provide political justification for further attacks on transgender care. The anti-trans frenzy is peaking in England this week following […]
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LGBTQ+

Joan Gibbs, renowned lesbian activist and attorney, dies at 71

March 31, 2024 Matt Tracy
Joan Gibbs, an activist and attorney who used her power — often on a pro bono basis — to fight HIV/AIDS and advance racial justice, women’s rights, and LGBTQ rights, died on March 14 at […]
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LGBTQ+

Nex Benedict’s death must be a turning point in the fight for trans lives!

February 28, 2024 Coalition to Protect Trans Lives
 Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old transgender Choctaw student, was brutally beaten in an Owasso, Oklahoma, high school bathroom on Feb. 7 and died the next day. The school did not call an ambulance for Nex […]
MOURN FOR THE DEAD
LGBTQ+

Call to action: Trans Day of Remembrance 2023

November 9, 2023 Coalition to Protect Trans Lives
Trans Day of Remembrance 2023:  MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING! The Coalition to Protect Trans Lives calls on trans and queer people and our allies to come out in force for […]
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LGBTQ+

Capitalists behind anti-trans social media barrage

November 9, 2023 Sally Jane Black
 On Nov. 2, a hate group called PragerU spent what is reported to be a million dollars to promote anti-trans lies on the social media site “X” (formerly Twitter), owned by right-wing billionaire Elon […]