LGBTQ+
Reflections During Pride Month Under Trump
Trump tweeted support for Pride month, while trans women die in detention centers. What does it mean to be LGBT during the Trump years?
Olivia Wood
June 30, 2019
No Rainbow Capitalism: The Five Worst Corporations to Kick Out of Pride
Pride parades across the countries are full of corporate booths and floats. We've picked the five most heinous corporate sponsors. These companies drape themselves in rainbow flags while hurting LGBTQ+ people around the world.
Violet Glaser
June 29, 2019
Queer Struggle, Class Struggle: Reflections on Stonewall at 50
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. The three-day riot against police violence will be commemorated with radical demonstrations, but also with "parades" including police, corporate floats and speeches by capitalist politicians. What happened? Has queerness lost its revolutionary potential?
Roberto Jara
June 28, 2019
An Anti-Capitalist Guide to NYC’s Pride Weekend
On the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall, the WorldPride Parade in New York—with its corporate sponsorships and close relationship with the cops—is not the only Pride event taking place. Here is a short guide to Pride in New York City this weekend.
AJ Rio-Glick
June 28, 2019
Life After Stonewall: The Struggle Against TERFs and the Far Right
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists are aligned with right wing views on gender and sexuality. Here is where they come from and why we should fight them.
Signý A.
June 26, 2019
Joe Biden Out of Stonewall
Democrats have not been friends or allies of the queer community historically and it is unrealistic to think that they will ever be.
Sybil Davis
June 20, 2019
Desire, Repression, Revolution: Jean Nicolas and “The Homosexual Question”
In the 1970s, Jean Nicolas, Trotskyist militant and activist of the French Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action, published “The Homosexual Question,” a brilliant analysis of the history of the oppression of “homosexuals” and the struggle for liberation, as connected to the struggle for socialism and new human relations.
Ana Rivera
June 15, 2019
Starbucks Is No Trans Ally
The world's largest coffee chain has built an image as a pro-LGBTQ+ company. But it has failed to even prevent discrimination within its own stores.
Autumn Rain
June 10, 2019
NYPD, Apology for Stonewall Not Accepted
New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill apologized for the police brutality at Stonewall. Apology not accepted.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
June 7, 2019
Trans Rights Have No Borders: Johana and Roxanna’s Lives Matter
On the first day of LGBTQ+ Pride month, Johana Medina Leon died four days after being released from ICE custody.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
June 5, 2019