Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– For the last several years reactionary conspiracy theorists have spread the dangerous lie that transgender people are disproportionately responsible for political violence and gun violence in general. This deception, based on a… Read More ›
LGBTQIA+
Reclaiming the radical history of Pride
Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas— In 1973, the New York City Pride March, originally called Christopher Street Liberation Day, barred drag queens from openly attending the… Read More ›
Ohio budget bill strips LGBTQ rights, defunds public libraries, schools
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– Ohio House Bill 96, a “budget bill” which passed through the state senate and was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine, includes a direct attack on the rights and identity of… Read More ›
After 35 years, “Paris Is Burning” remains essential class-conscious queer cinema
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– “I remember my dad used to say, ‘You have three strikes against you in this world. Every black man has two, that they’re just black and they’re a male. But you’re black… Read More ›
Strength until justice, struggle until peace, pride until equality
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– On June 1, the first day of Pride month of 2025, the same year that the White House refused to issue any statement for this historic period of LGBTQ+ Rights, the openly… Read More ›
The Kelly Loving Act, a triumph of justice for transgender Coloradans
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– With the return of President Trump, and his vile hatred of the transgender community, a small light of hope is shining from Colorado. On the night of May 6, Colorado State legislature… Read More ›
Queerphobic, anti-science Trump regime freezes HIV/AIDS research and resources
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– The Trump regime’s vindictive assault on the rights and safety of LGBTQIA+ people and the scientific community reached new levels on Jan. 31, 2025, when the National Institute of Health (NIH) ordered… Read More ›
Transgender Day of Remembrance: Until “never again!”
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– This Transgender Day of Remembrance falls on the solemn and ominous forecast of a second Trump administration, a Republican-controlled Congress, and the most conservative Supreme Court since perhaps the Civil War. We… Read More ›
Florida judge declares constitutional right to gender-affirming treatment; DeSantis prepares to retaliate
Anna I. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– A federal judge has struck down the blatantly bigoted Florida law, SB 254, ruling it as unconstitutional. The law, which banned access to gender-affirming treatments to thousands of transgender people under the… Read More ›
Not Enough! Biden’s proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility
Ian Ocx | LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor | Texas– On March 29, President Joe Biden announced the official recognition of Transgender Day of Visibility by the government of the United States. In this announcement, Biden stated… Read More ›
Nex Benedict: Medical Examiner findings contradict allegations that assault was “insignificant”
Orianna R. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon– Nex Benedict, a 16 year old nonbinary student (they/them), died last month after they were assaulted by three older students in a school bathroom on February 7, 2024 at Owasso High School… Read More ›
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023: Up with Liberation
By Ian Ocx, LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor. Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day that all of us in the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies use to bring attention to the previous and ongoing struggles… Read More ›
The anti-Marxist nature of Queer-Antagonistic Revisionism
By Ian Ocx and Red Nesbitt of the American Party of Labor. Introduction In his report to the Eighth Congress of the Party of Labor of Albania, comrade Enver Hoxha stated, “The Marxist-Leninists are not conservative and fanatical, as the… Read More ›
On the recent Supreme Court rulings
By Keegan D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. Every year liberal bourgeois think tanks and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) release reports that claim to rank and determine the levels of democracy within countries around the globe. Somehow the US ranks near the… Read More ›
We cannot allow capitalism to sanitize Pride!
By Ian Ocx, LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor. Over the last year the LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor has been doing its best to cover, report on, organize within, and provide a Marxist-Leninist analysis… Read More ›