With his passionate commitment to civil and labor rights and his outsized organizing talents, Bayard Rustin helped to shape the Civil Rights Movement.
LGBTQ
The unacknowledged roots of the Orlando shootings
The massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando has produced a national wave of anguish and righteous anger, especially among LGBTQ and Latina/o communities, at the loss of so many promising young lives. Now the search for answers has begun. Most politicians blame global terrorism in some fashion, from the explicitly anti-Muslim bigotry of Donald Trump… Read more »
Duciana Thomas, 1987–2016
Duciana Thomas, Bay Area Radical Women (RW) member and former coordinator of the local Comrades of Color Caucus, a joint body of RW and the Freedom Socialist Party, died suddenly on Nov. 1 at the age of 29. Passionate and unwavering in her convictions, Thomas will be missed by all who knew her. Her experiences… Read more »
Chelsea Manning — a pioneer fighting on two fronts
Courageous whistleblower and transgender activist Chelsea Manning remains in military lockup. But she does not remain silent. She resists brutish prison conditions by the Army and defends the right and need for whistleblowers. Manning was originally charged with espionage for leaking thousands of documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. These leaks exposed war crimes committed by… Read more »
Intersectionality: its meaning and its potential for movement-building
“Intersectionality” is a term that has been coming up a lot in political movements and in the news, especially in regard to the Women’s March on Washington in January. It means examining how the intermingling of all forms of discrimination that people experience — based on race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality and more — affect… Read more »
Standing with the trans community
When the Supreme Court refused to hear a case brought by a young trans man and in fact overturned his victory in a lower court, they sentenced trans youth to continuing harassment, beatings, illnesses, suicides, and murders! This deplorable decision was engineered by the Trump regime when they overturned the nationwide guideline requiring schools to… Read more »
Orlando: Build alliances to free us all
“Let’s channel our righteous queer rage into building alliances that can free us all.”
The Orlando shootings: an unspeakable tragedy with unacknowledged roots
The problem of violence is a problem of the system.
Make the links: Far-right attack on Safe Schools Coalition is part of a broad agenda
Australia has a shameful histroy of hysteria when it comes to programs designed to support LGBTIQ youth.
A salute to radical trans trailblazers who continue to change history
Since Compton and Stonewall, trans activists have been in the forefront of the struggle for equal rights for all.
