LGBTQ
Articles about gay liberation, homophobia and gay and lesbian oppression.
Privilege politics is reformism
A critique of privilege politics, which the author sees as a demobilizing force that boils down issues of oppression into what happens between individuals.
This piece was written by Will, a close comrade to many members of Black Orchid Collective.
Notes on Privilege Theory
Introduction: White Supremacy Lives on
It is crystal clear that white supremacy exists. It seeps through every pore in our society. It infects every social relationship. It obviously affects Occupy Wall Street.
Education round-up 19 Feb 2012
Equality in schools apparently not important to Gove. More on forced academy conversions. Next teacher strike date.
Equality in schools not important.
According to Michael Gove, schools are fair-game for bigots to peddle their nonsense. The latest row* centres around a US preacher touring Catholic schools and distributing homophobic material in Lancashire in 2010.
Support is urged for CeCe McDonald, victim of a hate crime who defended herself
An important case demands our support. Crishaun “CeCe” McDonald, a young Black transgender woman faces two counts of second degree murder for defending her friends and herself from physical attacks by a group shouting ugly racist and homophobic insults.
Please contact the Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and demand he drop the charges against CeCe:
612-348-5540 fax * 612-348-2042 * citizeninfo@co.hennepin.mn.us
A critique of anti-assimilation - Gayge Operaista
In this piece, Gayge Operaista critiques how anti-assimilation politics of many radical queer tendencies ignores class struggle, and recasts queer liberation in terms of the class struggle, countering the worst excess of identity politics with an introduction to models of class struggle.
A really big, important concept in radical queer thought and struggle is Anti-Assimilation, which, at its most basic, is "we don't want to elevate our position in the social order by becoming as much like the straights as possible"; clearly, there are a wide variety of possible positions that could be described as anti-assimilationist by that decision - from the communist position of "abolish the
Exiles in the Heartland
Tale of exile in Malaysia by Kwazee Wabbitt
TO ME, MAIN STREET WAS NEVER more than a pathetic imitation of a gay bar, a fractured parody of the demimonde. The outdated disco music and the de rigueur mirrored ball that spun wearily over the dance' floor tried but failed to create an atmosphere of big city sophistication in that heart of southern, rural darkness.
Some Remarks on Homophobia and Homosexuality
Junge Linke analyse the question of homosexuality.
1 There is no biological determination for being homo-, bi- or heterosexual. All scientific attempts to prove the biological origins of homosexuality rely on finding statistical correlations between sexual preferences and physical attributes. Bigger earlobes, properties and condition of testicles, features of the brain, DNA sequences etc.
Moral Disorder - Gilles Dauvé
English translation of the preface to the Swedish edition of For A World Without Moral Order.
So far, this text and a couple of others on similar issues1
- 1. “For a World without Moral Order” was first published in French in La Banquise #1, 1983, and then in English (translated by M.
1984-85: Lesbian and Gay Miners' Support Group
A short history of the Lesbian and Gay Miners' Support Group, who were set up during the 1984-85 miners' strike and, as a result, challenged prejudices held by many in the labour movement.
Before the miners' strike it would have been very hard to imagine a miners' minibus running around Dulais Valley in South Wales with the slogan on its doors and dashboard saying, 'This vehicle was donated by the Lesbians' and Gay men's miners' support group.'
Gay liberation - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading on gay liberation, and gay and lesbian oppression.
*Fear of a Queer Planet – Warner
Homosexuality: Power and politics – Weeks
Sex, Politics and Society – Weeks
*The Material Queer – Morton
Foucault and Queer Theory - Tamsin Spargo
The History of Sexuality - Foucault
For A World Without Moral Order - Gilles Dauvé
The present article is an introduction to a critique of social mores, a contribution to the necessary task of revolutionary anthropology.
The communist movement possesses a dimension both of class and of humanity. Although the central role of the proletarian worker is at the foundation of that movement, and although that movement works toward human community, it is neither a form of workerism nor of humanism.
