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“Stonewall was an unpermitted action” – Gay Liberation Front 1969-1979
Gay contingent, Vietnam War protest, 1971. Photo by Diana Davies, from the NY Public Library. This article is adapted from a public talk by Ian Anderson, active in the Workers Party and Queer Avengers....
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#boicotlacomay: No profit from homophobia and racism
In early January 2013, Puerto Rican chat show SuperXclusivo (featuring puppet character La Comay) was cancelled after a sustained boycott campaign. Spark writer Ian Anderson interviews Carlos Rivera,...
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Review: Black Faggot
Reviewed by Ian Anderson Black Faggot, performed in Auckland for Pride and Fringe Festival, should tour everywhere. Playwright Victor Rodgers’ examination of the “gay Samoan male experience” is timely...
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Wellington event: Solidarity protest against police brutality at Sydney Mardi...
Two incidents of police brutality were reported after Sydney Mardi Gras 2013, with Youtube footage showing one young man being violently assaulted by police and slammed onto the street. See the...
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Wellington event: ‘Beyond’ (discussion and action on gender and sexual...
‘Beyond’ is a weekend of discussion and action on gender and sexual diversity. Organised by the Queer Avengers, the conference will be held from the 11th-13th of October at Wellington High School. In...
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Queer Avengers press release: Solidarity action with Russia’s LGBTI movement
Originally printed by the Queer Avengers (Wellington). Neither Washington nor Moscow, but International Queer Liberation! QA are standing in solidarity with Russian LGBTI communities currently under...
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Solidarity with Russian LGBT movement: Neither Washington nor Moscow but...
by Ian Anderson, Fightback (Wellington). Russia was arguably the first country to legalise homosexuality. In the ferment between the revolution of 1905 and the revolution of 1917, liberal reformers...
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Chelsea Manning’s gender identity
article by Anne Russell, reprinted from Scoop.co.nz. The Queer Avengers (Wellington) are holding a solidarity action with Chelsea Manning on 2pm Saturday the 7th of September, at the US Embassy...
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Love & Marriage: Queers, Capitalism and Equality
After a six-and-a-half month passage through Parliament, marriage was finally legalized for same-sex couples in New Zealand in April 2013. Among the questions raised among left-wing queer and trans...
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Palestine: Queer liberation vs Pinkwashing
This talk by Ali Nissenbaum was originally delivered as part of Beyond, a conference organised by Queer Avengers. It is reprinted here from the Not Afraid of Ruins blog. Note: for the purpose of this...
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There’s pride in resistance, not apartheid
After the disruption of Israeli pinkwashing at Pride 2014, GayNZ asked activists involved to submit an article. This contribution comes from Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (Aotearoa), an online...
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Queer Politics and the Election: What are “Our” issues?
Action in solidarity with queer worker mistreated by McDonalds during 2013 industrial dispute. By Nic Wood, reprinted from Ours. I’m queer. My ideas about what it means to be and belong as a queer...
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Living Outside The Rainbow: Queerness and the Housing Crisis
LGBT youth homelessness protest, USA Fightback is running a series of articles on the housing crisis in Aotearoa/NZ. Kassie Hartendorp (Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington) explores the specific housing...
View ArticleContents Page: Voices of Women and Gender Minorities
Crowdfunded special edition of Fightback magazine (subscribe here), dedicated to radical writing by women and gender minorities. All contributors were paid. Editorial Not All Men, Bella Wallace...
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SWERF and TERF: The Red-Brown alliance in Policing Gender
Transcommunist flag by NinjaDrawsDBZ by DAPHNE LAWLESS, from Fightback magazine’s upcoming issue on Socialist Feminism. Subscribe here. Late last year, a veteran of communist politics in Aotearoa/New...
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