Domestic News

The fine print Starbucks doesn’t advertise

By Starbucks Workers United  Welcome to Solidarity Saturday, your weekly highlight reel and shortcut to staying plugged in. Starbucks loves to advertise tuition assistance. What they don’t advertise: the minimum weekly hours you need to […]
Public consultation with representatives of the LGBTQ+ community at the National Assembly of Venezuela, held by the Subcommittee for Women and Gender Equality
International News

A Debt to the LGBTQ+: Venezuela’s Legal and Social Recognition of Sexual Diversity

By Joseph Soto, Misión Verdad The implementation of the Democratic Coexistence and Peace Program in Venezuela reopens the debate that is both a hotly contested topic and largely absent in the national political discussion: sexual […]
Domestic News

WI BOPM 15th Anniversary Celebration April 25, 2026 in Madison

By Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement Event: https://www.facebook.com/share/18YjHeqoJy/ Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement is celebrating its 15 year anniversary with a Madison drag show! Food, speakers, organizational literature tables, fun, love and solidarity! […]
Domestic News

Bob McCubbin, ¡Presente!

By Communist Workers League Before the Communist Transgender Warrior, Leslie Feinberg, there was Bob McCubbin with a historical materialist view of the LGBTQIA question. At the time of Comrade Bob’s first major work, The Gay […]
Oct 17 picket of Fenway Community Health in Boston.
Domestic News

Transgender Uprising in Boston

By Gerry Scoppettuolo, ACT-UP Boston Almost lost in the torrent of Trump/white supremacist attacks on the working class is the crisis facing the transgender community in this country. If you are paying attention, it is […]
The June 5, 1981, CDC first announcement. For the first few years the words “gay cancer” or GRID, “Gay Related Infectious Disease” in the press
Domestic News

For Life and Love – We Are Not Going Back!

By Gerry Scoppettuolo Because of a restraining order issued by a Federal judge, the Trump government has been forced to restore life-saving information about HIV/AIDS to the CDC’s website. Critical facts on HIV prevention, testing, […]
Thousands lost their government and non-government jobs during the “Lavender Scare”
Domestic News

It CAN Happen Here

By Gerry Scoppettuolo Gay Pride month 2024 approaches in the United States in a political environment of both militant resistance and deep foreboding. For the past 75 years the queer community has  continuously struggled to […]
Queer Palestinian activists have long fought against the notion that LGBT rights and Palestinian rights are mutually exclusive
International News
A contingent from the Boston LGBTQ+ community joined in demanding a ceasefire
Domestic News

LGBTQ+ Contingent in Boston Palestine March

By Fighting Words Staff Thousands of Boston area protesters filled the downtown area on Sunday, December 17 in support of a ceasefire in Gaza. One of the contingents represented the LGBTQ+ community.
Boston Rejects Zionist Pinkwashing
Domestic News

By Boston activists We are writing as queer, trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, Palestinian, Arab, Black, Indigenous, white, Latinx, and Jewish people living in the Boston area on occupied Massachusett, Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Wabanaki lands. We […]