LGBTIQ

By RUSS O’SHEA For the past few years, trans people have been put in the spotlight in quite a grotesque way. November’s election saw the trans community scapegoated for virtually any societal problem in the service of the political game. The Republican Party viciously attacked the trans community and President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised […]

By RUSS O’SHEA One of the most emergent issues of our time is the fight for transgender rights. In recent years, an enormous amount of vitriol has been directed against this community. The hostility has long existed but it has become so disproportionate that many are asking themselves why politicians focus so much on trans […]

By ERNIE GOTTA Teamster President Sean O’Brien caused a wave of divergent opinions in the labor movement following his speech at the Republican National Convention. Rank-and-file members made comments on Tik-tok from “Did he not know where he was?” to “I love watching the Teamsters prove how much this crowd actually likes or cares about […]

By MAR RENO In the 2024 State of the Union address [X], Joe Biden shouted out the transgender youth of the U.S., “You’re so brave! … Your president has your back!” Nearly four months later, just as Pride season had wrapped up, the Biden administration retreated on a key issue of bodily autonomy for transitioning […]

By RUSS O’SHEA Queer people today find themselves in a startling position. In the time since the Stonewall Uprising, the community seemed to have been making slow but steady gains, achieving, for example, legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015. But over the last decade or so, things have begun to tumble backwards. For the second […]

By RUSS O’SHEA On May 10, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put out a joint public service announcement warning that foreign terrorist organizations could target Pride month events. The PSA listed three examples of alleged ISIS connections to anti-LGBTQ hate, including one reference to the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting, which saw the […]

By RUSS O’SHEA Entering pride season 2024, Queer people find ourselves in a world characterized by unprecedented attacks on our rights, environmental devastation, ongoing genocide, and skyrocketing rents and inflation, among other crises. The legal and extralegal offensive against Queer lives has prompted the Human Rights Campaign to declare a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ […]

By Érika Andreassy Israel is often portrayed as the only democracy in the Middle East. When speaking of Israeli “democracy,” people often point to its multi-party parliamentary system with a proper separation of powers and periodic open and democratic elections. Where the institutions of the regime function properly, the rule of law is respected, and […]

Originally Published: 2/2/2023 By: The National LGBTI Secretariat of the PSTU-B On January 29, “National Trans and Travesti Visibility Day,” the Popular Unity for Socialism, UP, published a text on its website and made a post on Twitter where it develops a scientifically outdated and essentially transphobic position. A debate that we address in the […]

Originally Published: 2/2/2023 By: The National LGBTI Secretariat of the PSTU-B On January 29, “National Trans Visibility Day” in Brazil was marked by marches, struggles, and debates throughout the country demanding an end to transphobia. This day, which was established after a huge protest held in Brasilia in 2004 as part of the “Trasvesti and […]

The 30th LGBTIA+ Pride Week events held on 20 June – 26 June 2022 were celebrated with the gathering of thousands of LGBTI+ and many militants who resisted in Istanbul despite all the obstacles of the police. The slogan of this year’s Pride Week was “Resistance”. In keeping with the theme, “resistance” was everywhere.

According to a leaked initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court is poised to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which guarantees the right to an abortion. The ruling would likely ban or further limit abortion in 28 states, meaning that more than half of reproductive-age women’s legal […]

To know a little about the reality of those who are HIV positive and, inclusive, about the expectations with the discoveries made by the researchers from the Federal University of State of São Paulo (Unifesp) – see the article – we talked with Felipe Fernandes, 25, a telemarketing operator and a History and Nursing university […]

Pandemic, stigmas and prejudices  As it was mentioned in the article “The pandemic of Covid 19 and the LGBTs”[1], in addition to all the health and socioeconomic issues they are facing, LGBT people still have to deal with stigmas and prejudice, which are being fueled by religious fundamentalists, who, irresponsibly, rashly and cruelly are taking […]

The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising is being celebrated on June 28. It is a landmark of the beginning of the modern LGBTI movement throughout the world. The Pride marches are held in June each year to celebrate that feat.

One million people took Sao Paulo main avenue for LGBT Parade on June 23, 2019.