The good, the bad, and the meh.
LGBTQ
Out of patience! A reflection on the long fight against HIV/AIDS
April first was a great day for the prevention of HIV in Australia.
Confronting transphobia
Transgender militants and supporters lead an aggressive fightback against Trump-era bigotry.
Campaigners for marriage equality finally win in Australia
The movement won the victory, but the federal government took credit.
Tribute to gay rights pioneer Tamara Turner
A foremother of the LGBTQ movement, Tamara Turner graduated from the anti-gay 1950s school of hard knocks. She played a crucial role in shaping the Freedom Socialist Party’s (FSP) groundbreaking program for queer liberation. She was a historian of the gay movement, an ardent bibliophile, and a brilliant satirist who filled her 77 years with… Read more »
Mobilise against homophobia and transphobia
A socialist feminist take on the Australian Marriage Law postal survey.
Community victory against right-wing agitator Milo Yiannopoulos
The kick-off event for the far right’s “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley fizzled as white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos and his supporters were outnumbered by anti-fascist protesters on Sunday.
LGBTQ Pride 2017: Celebrate the Victories and Fight like Hell to Defend Them
When arch conservative Anita Bryant crusaded against gay rights in the 1970s, the queer community fought back. Not every battle was won, but the stage was set across the U.S. for increasing rights. When Ronald Reagan maintained a deadly silence in the early 1980s as the AIDS/HIV crisis escalated, with his fascist-loving communications director, Pat… Read more »
Bayard Rustin — from teenage civil rights organizer to hero of the historic 1963 March on Washington
With his passionate commitment to civil and labor rights and his outsized organizing talents, Bayard Rustin helped to shape the Civil Rights Movement.
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 »
