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Los Angeles: LGBTQ2S march in solidarity with Black lives

June 16, 2020 Scott Scheffer

On June 14, the LGBTQ2S community in Los Angeles chanted and shouted their anger over police racism and violence in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in a huge march. Thousands of handmade signs […]

I’m probably your favorite Black transgender lesbian mom by default (I’m definitely in your top 5)

June 6, 2020 Lilith Pandora

My partner has been pushing me to do TikTok lately. I personally hate TikTok, Vine and all other similar platforms. I think they represent humanity at its absolute worst, but I also have been pushing […]

Gender expression and the imposition of a female/male dichotomy

June 5, 2020 Bob McCubbin

Here is Chapter 30 from “The Social Evolution of Humanity: Marx and Engels Were Right!” by Bob McCubbin, a study of the evolution of humanity focused on human social/sexual relations (including “marriage”) and, in particular, […]

‘Respect our right to work’: LGBTQ2S rally at Supreme Court

October 16, 2019 Andre Powell

Washington, D.C. — On the morning of Oct. 8, several hundred LGBTQ2S people and allies defiantly rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court to demand protections against discrimination in the workplace. The three cases being heard […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal: When trans women die

October 15, 2019 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Oct. 13 — In recent weeks, we have seen naked violence unleashed against Black trans women, directed against them by the state in the form of police beatings and by rightist forces in this emerging […]

Pride rings out in New York streets: ‘Stonewall still means fight back!’

July 14, 2019 Greg Butterfield

What a weekend! From Friday, June 28 — the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion against police terror — through Sunday, June 30, protests, parades, meetings, festivals and celebrations took place in New York to […]

Chelsea Manning: ‘No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us’

July 3, 2019 Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning, a U.S. Army veteran and trans woman, spent seven years in military prison for sharing evidence of U.S. war crimes with WikiLeaks. Earlier this year, Manning was thrown back in jail for refusing […]

In the spirit of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera: No to police occupation!

July 3, 2019 Greg Butterfield

New York — On June 28, I walked the short distance from my day job in lower Manhattan to Sheridan Square, a historic LGBTQ2S meeting place just south of the Stonewall Inn, where a police raid […]

Baltimore Pride weekend: Anti-imperialist contingent lifts up Chelsea Manning and Marielle Franco

June 25, 2019 Andre Powell

Chants of “Free Chelsea Manning!” rang out on the streets of Baltimore during the city’s annual LGBTQ2S Pride Parade on June 15. Members of the Peoples Power Assembly, Baltimore Peace Action, Struggle-La Lucha, the Socialist […]

Reclaim Pride slams NYPD’s phony Stonewall apology

June 20, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha

On June 6, New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill issued an apology for the police raid on a gay bar that set off the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion and sparked the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, […]