LGBTQ+
This Pride Month, There is Hope In Fighting Back. Pride is in the Streets.
Pride is in the streets. It is the history of our community, it is the history of our struggle. Let us do them honor.
Sybil Davis
June 2, 2023Target Doesn’t Care about LGBTQ+ People
At Target and Anheuser-Busch, policies of inclusion and diversity have clashed with profit ambitions.
Pablo Herón
June 2, 2023Lizzo Is Right: We Can’t Abandon Queer People
At a recent show in Knoxville, Tennessee, pop artist Lizzo brought drag queens onstage to perform with her — a clear stand against the recent drag ban passed in the state. This is an inspiring move from Lizzo, but as workers we must take action into our own hands, and take it further.
Charlotte White
April 28, 2023“We are your economy”: Trans Youth Walkout and Speak Out
The following is a speech by a young trans person as part of an action called for by NYC Youth for Trans Rights.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
March 20, 2023Ominous New Attacks on Trans Rights Remind Us…It’s Capitalism
If the viciousness and hostility against trans people and ultimately all LGBT people is today open-carried on the Far Right, it is our dependence on fair-weather liberals and the politicians of the Democratic Party that is our Achilles’ heel.
Ian Scott Horst
February 17, 2023Class Struggle Solidarity and the Trans Movement (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Class)
While writers at The New York Times staged a 24-hour walkout on Thursday, some trans people expressed skepticism about showing solidarity for workers at a publication that distributes so much transphobia. A trans socialist explains why queer solidarity with the labor movement is so important, even when workers might not yet be taking up our struggles.
Sybil Davis
December 11, 2022Understanding the Carnage at Colorado Springs
The heinous violence displayed in Colorado Springs is a stark reminder of the menacing, lethal threat that today’s determined far right continues to pose to trans and queer people, and anyone living outside capitalism’s imposed sexual and gender boundaries.
Keegan O'Brien
December 4, 2022Marxism, Stalinism, and Queerphobia
A historical survey of Marxism and queer life, from the young Soviet Union to Stalinist homophobia.
Marco Helmbrecht
July 17, 2022GOP Introduces Federal Bill Attacking Trans Children
House Republicans have introduced a federal anti-trans bill specifically attacking children and school employees. It’s a sign of things to come from the GOP’s increasingly reactionary agenda.
Olivia Wood
July 15, 2022Republicans’ Legislation Against Drag Shows Is Part of their Anti-LGBTQ+ Agenda
Right-wing reactionaries are taking aim at drag shows as part of their attack on LGBTQ+ rights. These proposed bills will undoubtedly open the floodgates for more and more explicit attacks against queer people across the country.
Sawyer Smith
June 14, 2022