LGBTQ
Stonewall anniversary: The rebellious roots of Pride
June 28, 2018It's been 49 years since a group of trans people, gays, and drag queens stood up to police repression and sparked the modern LGBTQ movement.
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Trans prisoners also on receiving end of ICE brutality
June 26, 2018It's not just the kids who are suffering at the hands of ICE and the Border Patrol.
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The new revolution in socialism: LGBTQ rights in Vietnam and Cuba
June 22, 2018Each of these two nations is perhaps moving closer to their aspirations where exploitation and oppression of any kind are relegated to the past.
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Why we still need Pride marches
June 22, 2018Until every LGBTQ person has a safe home, a well-paying job that respects us, and the basic legal dignities everyone else enjoys, we’ll continue to march.
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Gay rights in the Communist press: Recollections of a seminal article
April 18, 2018People's World writer Eric Gordon remembers when "the winds of perestroika" finally blew in 1990 and he was invited to write the first article on gay rights to appear in the U.S. Communist press.
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