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‘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, […]

¡Celebrando Orgullo de Dos-Espíritus por miles de años!

June 12, 2019 por M. Tiahui

1 de junio de 2019 Tal vez ha escuchado hablar de “Dos Espíritus” con relación a lesbianas, gay, bisexual, transgénero u otros términos Si no es indígena, tal vez esto le hace pensar que “Dos […]

Queens Pride marchers demand freedom for migrants, Chelsea Manning

June 5, 2019 Greg Butterfield

Queens, N.Y. — Chanting “Stonewall still means fight back! Free Chelsea Manning!” activists from Struggle-La Lucha and the Socialist Unity Party kicked off LGBTQ2S Pride month by marching in the Queens Pride Parade on June […]

Stonewall still means fight back!

June 2, 2019 Bob McCubbin

On May 24, the Washington Blade reported on the Trump administration’s latest assault on transgender rights. On the day before a long holiday weekend, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that […]