Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

"Stonewall" "Trans community"
To be honest though, do those two things really have that much to do with each other?

All struggles are the same struggle against capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy. Stop trying to undermine solidarity.

And doing it on this day of all days:

The Queer Liberation March is getting ready to take its daring, humorous and oh-so-gay protest through the streets of lower Manhattan on Sunday, when tens of thousands of participants are expected to demonstrate against all forms of oppression.

Known for its “no corps, no cops, no BS!” philosophy, the annual Pride protest march was formed in 2019 by the Reclaim Pride Coalition, a group of LGBTQ activists dissatisfied with the increasing number of corporate floats and sponsorships with no ties to the community powering the city’s official Pride March.

Over the years, the march has grown to include an increasing number of progressive grassroots movements, including those fighting for reproductive care, immigrant rights, and against police brutality, discrimination and racial inequality.

This year’s protest — dubbed The Queer Liberation March for Black, Brown, Queer, Trans, Gender Nonconforming, and Nonbinary Youth, and Against War and Genocide

The sixth edition of the QLM will highlight issues affecting queer progressive communities in New York City and across the globe, including the rampant violence and increasing hatred against trans and nonbinary youth of color and the extermination of queer and trans lives across the world.

It’s important to raise awareness about threats “against pretty much all youth who aren’t straight, cisgender, Christian and white,” QLM co-founder Jay W. Walker said, citing the rise in popularity of far-right groups such as Moms of Liberty and hatemongers like Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok.

The other main goal for this year’s march is to recognize that, while “wars and genocide are destroying queer, trans and gender-nonconforming lives all over [the world],” there’s also a “great deal of pinkwashing” when it comes to the current conflict in Gaza, Walker said.

“Pinkwashing,” a term that describes the exploitation of LGBTQ rights to conceal violations of human rights, is being used to justify “the genocide taking place in Palestine by the apartheid state of Israel,” he said. “We reject pinkwashing in any of its guises.”