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Lesbian, Gay, Bi & Trans
A youth-organized and youth-led contingent in the Central New York Pride 2012 march in Syracuse, N.Y., demanded: “Free CeCe McDonald! March for CeCe!” on June 16.
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Posted Jun 21, 2012
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The 8th annual Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice happens June 22 in New York City....
Posted Jun 21, 2012
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As Pride 2012 is being celebrated this June, bigotry and oppression against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and communities — along with virulent racism — are alive and well across the United States.
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Posted Jun 6, 2012
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Statement by Leslie Feinberg....
Posted Jun 6, 2012
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This was the second year in a row that Motor City Pride took place in downtown Detroit. ...
Posted Jun 6, 2012
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The first Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer Pride month in the Occupy era begins this week. In Boston, New York, San Francisco, Raleigh, N.C., and elsewhere, activists will be organizing Pride march contingents emphasizing opposition to anti-LGBTQ bigotry, racism and war.
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Posted Jun 6, 2012
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President Barack Obama’s recent statement in support of same-sex marriages reflects the hard work of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer organizations, activists and allies to demand the right of equality for LGBTQ people. ...
Posted May 16, 2012
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Speech given by the late Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, on Aug. 15, 1970, on gay and women’s rights....
Posted May 16, 2012
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Tea Party followers likely thought they could hold a virulently anti-gay rally on Boston Common on April 15 to freely spew their hatred. They were wrong.
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Posted Apr 19, 2012
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Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald, a 23-year-old African-American trans woman who was attacked by patrons of a Minneapolis tavern on June 5 of last year....
Posted Apr 11, 2012
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A coalition of LGBT groups released “An Open Letter: Standing Alongside Trayvon Martin’s Family and Friends” on April 2:...
Posted Apr 4, 2012
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A large rally to end a ban on Palestine solidarity organizing at the Manhattan Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center was held on March 3 during Israeli Apartheid Week. It was initiated by NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid....
Posted Mar 18, 2012
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The struggle to free Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald in Minneapolis deserves wide publicity and support. McDonald, 23, is an African-American transgender woman who was brutally attacked by racist, anti-lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer bigots on June 5....
Posted Feb 22, 2012
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Blustery, frigid winds buffeted the crowd gathered in support of Brandon White, a 20-year-old gay man whose videotaped beating at the hands of reputed gang members outside a corner store shocked millions of viewers nationwide....
Posted Feb 16, 2012
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African-American lesbian activist, poet and writer Audre Lorde wrote that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Published in 1984, her statement is a perfect response to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Dec. 6 announcement that the U.S. will supposedly be championing the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people around the world. ...
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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After years of protest and struggle by the lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer communities and their allies, on Sept. 20 the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of legal discrimination against LGBTQ people in the military was repealed. ...
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Hoisting signs proclaiming “Using queers to oppress Palestinians [is]
just not fabulous,” “Don’t censor queer organizing” and
“We need solidarity, not bigotry, Don’t lock out pro-Palestinian
queers,” activists gathered in front of New York’s Lesbian Gay
Bisexual Transgender Community Center the evening of March 5 to protest
cancellation of an Israeli Apartheid Week event....
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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Last fall students at Mona Shores High School in Muskegon, Mich., made history
by electing Oakleigh Marshall Reed homecoming king. Reed — known to his
classmates as Oak — is a transgender youth. School records have him
listed as female under the birth name Oakleigh Marie....
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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In Michigan there is currently a struggle over whether or not to pass
“anti-bullying” legislation. To define its opponents as
“bigoted extremists” would be an understatement. Who could possibly
stand in the way of protecting a child from assault, harassment and
intimidation...
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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A group of people, ranging in age from 15 to 60, banded together on Dec.
18 to stage a die-in for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer liberation at the
Westfarms Mall in Farmington, Conn....
Posted Jan 29, 2011
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Excerpts from a Nov. 13 talk given by LeiLani Dowell, a
Workers World managing editor and Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST)
organizer, at the Nov. 13-14 Workers World Party national conference....
Posted Dec 16, 2010
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Many thousands of people in the U.S. and in many other parts of the world have read
and been inspired by the writings of Leslie Feinberg, a transgender lesbian
activist, revolutionary working-class intellectual and Workers World newspaper
managing editor....
Posted Sep 2, 2010
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The Sonoma (Calif.) County Board of Supervisors finally surrendered on Aug. 5.
The board agreed to settle with Clay Greene, and he was awarded $650,000. Clay
Greene and his partner Harold Scull had been forcibly abducted by the county in
April 2008. Their possessions had been auctioned off after the city terminated
the lease on their home....
Posted Sep 2, 2010
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Racism and ageism were themes for the keynote speakers at the Old Lesbians
Organizing for Change national gathering in Cleveland in July....
Posted Aug 29, 2010
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Resolutions passed by Old Lesbians
Organizing for Change at its national gathering, held July 14-18 in
Cleveland....
Posted Aug 29, 2010
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On July 31, under the pressure of a national campaign calling for her to honor
the boycott of Arizona, Lady Gaga, one the biggest icons in pop music, met with
local activists and used her Phoenix concert to speak out against SB1070....
Posted Aug 4, 2010
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Hundreds of thousands of spirited marchers and cheering spectators
participated in Boston’s 40th Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer Pride Parade on
June 12. The theme of this year’s march was “From Riots to
Rights.”...
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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Chanting, “Queers come out and take a stand, there’s too much
blood on Israel’s hands!” an angry group of LGBTQ activists
picketed on June 17 in front of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco to protest
Israeli support of the Frameline LGBT Film Festival....
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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Activists in the lesbian, gay, bi and transgender communities are
continuing to push for a repeal of the reactionary “don’t ask,
don’t tell” law, which dictates the discharge of LGBT members of
the U.S. military if they reveal their sexuality or if it is otherwise
exposed....
Posted Jun 23, 2010
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A powerful and historic alliance has developed here between hotel and
restaurant workers represented by UNITE HERE and the lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer
community, through support and struggle for each other’s causes....
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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West Virginia Pride held its 14th annual LGBTQ Pride Parade/Festival in
the capital city of Charleston on June 6. ...
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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Over 100 University of Massachusetts students and community supporters came out
on Dec. 1 to protest the appearance near the UMass campus of the white
supremacist, anti-gay, anti-Semitic Fred Phelps and members of his Westboro
Church in Kansas....
Posted Dec 13, 2009
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On the evening of Nov. 30, scores of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
queer activists packed Cleveland City Council chambers in anticipation of a
tremendous victory for the transgender community. That night the Council
revised the city charter to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity
and gender expression....
Posted Dec 13, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk given by Fight Imperialism, Stand
Together organizer LeiLani Dowell, at the WWP National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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Over 150,000 strong and overwhelmingly young, the sea of marchers demanded
full equality for lesbian, gay, bi and trans people in the National Equality
March on Washington, D.C. on Oct. 11....
Posted Oct 14, 2009
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Mokgadi Caster Semenya is a South African runner who won the
women’s 800-meter gold medal at the 2009 World Championships. She was
subsequently challenged by competitors to prove her gender and subjected to sex
tests by the International Association of Athletics Federations. South African gender and political analyst Nomboniso Gasa responds....
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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A court in India’s capital has made a historic decision in overturning a
law that banned sex between people of the same gender. The law, section 377 of
the Indian Penal Code, was imposed on the Indian people by the British when
they colonized the country. It declared “carnal intercourse” to be
“against the order of nature,” with penalties of up to 10 years in
prison. While few were criminally prosecuted under the law, many lesbian, gay,
bi and trans people were persecuted and harassed because of it....
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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Pride weekend kicked off in New York City on June 26 with
a militant march for trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) peoples’
rights. The Trans Day of Action marched from Union Square past New York’s
Human Resources Administration to demand that all people receiving public
assistance, including TGNC people of color, be treated with respect and
dignity....
Posted Jul 1, 2009
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Shelley Ettinger says: When I volunteered to speak about Workers World Party’s history with
regard to the party’s role in the lesbian, gay, bi and trans struggle, I
didn’t realize what an enormous task I was taking on. The party’s
contribution to this struggle is, in fact, a huge topic....
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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In Cuba the campaign against homophobia has access to all the mass media and is
an ongoing educational effort, not just a one-day affair. This information may
surprise many people in the United States, who get very little news from the
corporate media here about the great social progress that has been made in Cuba
as a result of its revolution.
However, readers of Workers World newspaper were fortunate enough to learn a
great deal about Cuba’s campaign to rectify old prejudices through the
series of articles called Lavender & Red. ...
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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Only eight hours after the announcement of the California Supreme Court’s
prejudice-based ruling supporting Prop 8 on May 26, 5,000 disappointed, sad,
but mostly angry San Diegans stormed out of Balboa Park onto Sixth Avenue and
chanted their way to the heart of downtown. ...
Posted Jun 6, 2009
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The struggle for lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) equal rights under bourgeois
marriage law won back-to-back victories this month with the extension of full
marriage rights to same-sex couples in Vermont and Iowa. These two states
joined Massachusetts and Connecticut as the only states to perform same-sex
marriages....
Posted Apr 24, 2009
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“Milk” is a rare film for, from the viewpoint of partisans for LGBT
liberation, it deserves the acclaim it’s received. Although it is
ostensibly about the title character, this is really a movie about something
much bigger than one person....
Posted Feb 11, 2009
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Imani Henry, trans activist who is a co-founder of Rainbow Flags for Mumia and a contributing writer for Workers World newspaper.
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Posted Dec 2, 2008
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Organized by a coalition called Californians Against Hate, a large crowd of
LGBT activists and representatives from many area unions gathered in front of
the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel to send a two-pronged message to the
hotel’s CEO....
Posted Jul 27, 2008
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Lesbian, gay, bi and trans pride was marked with activities continuing the
struggle for LGBT rights from June 27 to 29 in New York City....
Posted Jul 2, 2008
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Members of Picture the Homeless and the Radical Homosexual Agenda joined
forces on June 24 for a protest at the Gracie Mansion where billionaire Mayor
Michael Bloomberg was hosting a dinner and reception in honor of LGBT Pride
Month....
Posted Jul 2, 2008
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Since its founding in 2000, Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for
Community Empowerment! (FIERCE!) has worked strenuously to create and amplify a
voice for LGBTQ youth of color in New York City....
Posted Feb 7, 2008
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U.S. and British military public relations, and their embedded media, focused
on Taliban laws and attitudes about same-sex love to agitate for the October
2001 invasion and justify occupation....
Posted Dec 16, 2007
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