Workers World states on LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Month: ‘End oppression and war!’

For over half a century, Workers World newspaper has covered the global struggle to end all forms of discrimination, persecution and violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersexual, Asexual and Two-Spirit communities.

WW has consistently backed up our activist coverage with analysis. In the early 1970s, WW ran a series of articles that led to publication of “The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal” in 1976. In 1993, WW republished it as “The Roots of Lesbian and Gay Oppression: A Marxist View,” with a new preface and afterword.

In 2004, Leslie Feinberg, WW managing editor and globally recognized transgender leader, began the “Lavender & Red” series, which ran until 2008 in WW. Twenty-five of these articles were published in the book “Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba.” (Download these books at workers.org/books)

Feinberg was an ardent supporter of Palestinian resistance to U.S.-backed Zionist repression. Feinberg stated in a 2007 speech given at an ASWAT — Palestinian Gay Women — conference in Haifa:  “Today we see how the imperialists — the U.S. to Israelis — use the experiences of women, of gays, of transgenders as pretexts for imperialist war. The white supremacist ideology replaces the colonial claim of ‘bringing civilization’ into imperialist claims that they are ‘bringing democracy.’”

Many LGBTQIA2S+ groups and individuals are today supporting Palestinian, Lebanese and Iranian people against U.S.-Israeli bombings and destruction and are demonstrating in solidarity. They recognize that the same system that wages these wars is oppressing their communities right here.

WW has consistently covered important events such as Trans Day of Remembrance in honor of those who have lost their lives to bigotry, as well as annual countrywide Pride events. Our newspaper will continue to voice solidarity with the LGBTQIA2S+ communities, particularly the trans community, now under vicious attack by the Trump administration. WW strongly declares: “End all oppression and U.S. wars!”

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