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The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements

Letter written by Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panthers, published in their newspaper on August 21, 1970. The speech criticises previous…

Gay News rally

Carnival of the Oppressed, The Angry Brigade and the Gay Liberation Front

An article investigating the relationship between Gay Liberationist groups and the British New Left.

Stonewall riots, 1969

Stonewall: The birth of gay power - Sherry Wolf

A history of the Stonewall riots, where LGBT people in New York City took a stand against violent state repression and battled the police,…

Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto by Alyson Escalante

Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto - Alyson Escalante

Alyson Escalante's critiques of the trans community's reliance on gender essentialism and a proposal…

They were a bit, ken, thon wey: Scottish LGBT history - Brian Dempsey

Interesting two part article about the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in…

Contemporary illustration of their hanging

Pratt and Smith: the last UK men hanged for sodomy - Frank Ryan

A short account of the 1835 execution of two London working men, James Pratt and John Smith, the…

Class War's Fuck Parade anti-gentrification protest in Shoreditch

Hipsterphobia - Cava Sundays

Interesting article on Class War attacking "hipsters" as part of their high-profile protest against gentrification in east London last month,…

The future is kids' stuff

Thinking climate futures through the image of the child and reproduction smuggles conservative assumptions into our understanding and forecloses…

vagina monologues gz

Gender war and social stability in Xi’s China: Interview with a friend of the Women’s Day Five (1st half)

Many friends and associates of the five feminists detained on March 7 are still in…

The toughest skin - Liberté Locke

A great, short article by Liberté Locke demonstrating the differing experiences one can have at work, based on issues of identity.

For your safety and security… - anonymous refused

An essay, published on a blog, anonymous refused, that elaborates many of the problems with "safer spaces" as they are currently practiced in activist collectives, and puts forward a nuanced perspective that does not totally reject the project of "safer spaces". Content warning for discussion of sexual assault and mental illness.

The occupation of the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, 1979 - Steven Johns

A short account of a sit in at the Swedish health board by LGBT activists in 1979 which successfully…