LGBTQ

Fighting a flood of anti-LGBTQ2+ bills in Florida

By Devin C Pensacola, Fla. Over 65 people gathered Feb. 2 at historic Seville Square in downtown Pensacola to kick…

February 10, 2020

Pride at Work supports Black Lives Matter

Orlando, Fla. -- A lot of pride and fightback energy was on display at the “Triennial Convention of Pride at Work,…

September 2, 2015

Protesters fight Scott Walker’s anti-worker platform

Hundreds of activists participated in the “Oppose Scott Walker’s Wall Street Agenda” protest July 13 at the Waukesha County Expo…

July 24, 2015

Right-wing backlash to marriage equality victory

As poll after poll demonstrates, public opinion is on the side of marriage equality. That seismic shift in political consciousness…

July 16, 2015

Trans immigrant Jennicet Gutiérrez challenges Obama

How should the progressive or the immigrant rights movement respond to the Democratic Party’s policies and actions on immigration? Jennicet…

July 1, 2015

LGBTQ victory shows that mass struggle wins rights

June 26 was a day of huge celebrations. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality. Laws defining…

June 29, 2015

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer view on rights, liberation, & anti-racist solidarity

The following excerpts are from a talk on “LGBTQ: Rights, Liberation and Solidarity” given by Shelley Ettinger, a former WW…

June 29, 2015

Sexual Minorities Archives: ‘Queer Archiving = Queer Activism’

For LGBTQ Pride, WW Contributing Editor Minnie Bruce Pratt interviewed longtime anti-racist Transgender activist Ben Power Alwin, curator of the…

June 28, 2015

Black Lives Matter statement at Boston Pride

We demand fair and equitable Pride fees. It is an outrage that community organizations and nonprofits, serving the most vulnerable…

June 21, 2015

Book review: ‘Out in the Union’

“Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America,” by Miriam Frank, Temple University Press, 2014 The importance of…

June 21, 2015