Gay lesbian solidarity
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The purpose of the Kaos Gay and Female homosexual Cultural Researches and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) is to support Lesbian, Same-sex attracted, Bisexual and Transitioned individuals in embracing libertarian values, realizing their own universe, and in cultivating themselves in request to contribute to the development of social peace and welfare together with the development of their individual, social and cultural animation and behaviour.
Kaos GL adopts it as its working concept to make apparent the activities of human rights organizations and LGBTI organizations working on human rights; to generate added value for the activities carried out in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms by gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender and intersexual individuals, LGBTI organizations working in the area of human rights and other human rights organizations; and increase reciprocal understanding and exchange of experiences and improve and fortify solidarity and cooperation opportunities between Kaos GL and other LGBTI organizations and rights-based NGOs. In its activities, Kaos GL endeavours to promote and spread the universal ethics of human rights. Committed to these values
LGBT+ transport workers need solidarity, not ‘rainbow capitalism’
Attitudes to sexual orientation and gender identity have changed for the finer all over the world in the last two decades, towards openness and acceptance. For the most part, these attitude changes own been mirrored by improving rights for LGBT+ people and their families in the law, in workplace entitlements, and in equal opportunities in the wider community.
Where LGBT+ people have won long-lasting and meaningful advances, they have been part of truthful movements for convert. They have fought for change alongside others in the global working class who seek to build a fairer, more equal nature, from a place of shared standards. From Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners in the United Kingdom in the 1980s to the Maritime Union of Australia’s staunch support for marriage equality this decade just gone, solidarity and dignity for all people are the shared principles that underpin ourshared struggle for equality.
However, the last 20 years we own also seen the emergence of‘rainbow capitalism’–a process where some companies add a progressive gloss to their brands whilesimultaneously continuing, or even
We are a network of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals who recognize the need for a new and radically different shape of LGB organizing, aware of the fact that the clash for the rights of sexual minorities lead today is inefficient and often counterproductive. We accept that our organisation must be based on the shared truth of same-sex attraction, not the hyperproduction of various identities – so we gather under the shared abbreviation LGB. We consider that the liberation of the sexual minorities cannot be imagined outside the frame of class struggle and women’s liberation.
We advocate for LGB organizing based on principles of working-class struggle, and not elitism – one that would be able to challenge homophobia where it hits most directly: the working class. We also believe that our clash is being led on the streets and in the workplaces, and that the focus must be shifted from the topics of mere media representation to the questions of existential importance – housing and dignified function. What we need is solidarity with workers, as well as workers’ solidarity, and not concessions from the ruling class.
We advocate for LGB organizing that will be feminist, not my
1199 Magazine
The mission statement of 1199’s constitution reads as follows: “We are determined to shield and advance the lives of our members—not only on the job, but also in our communities and in our society.”
That guiding principle, together with organization, togetherness and vision, helped to make the Union a labor and civil rights powerhouse.
Unfortunately, during 1199’s early years, the rights of some workers were not adequately addressed in society at large. Discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity continues to this day, but at that time it was commonplace.
The 1969 Stonewall Uprising is widely regarded as a turning aim that challenged outdated attitudes. The Greenwich Village rally helped progressives to notice multiple interlocking systems of oppression more clearly. During the 1970s, LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay bisexual, trans, gender non-conforming, plus other sexual identities) workers and their allies began to organize more openly throughout society. In the workplace, the battle centered on contract protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s a