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!["Events like QueerBomb are hugely important because of the ways in which they try to take inspiration from the radical queer past and for the ways in which they try to shed light on the organizations that are trying to extend the legacies of that past."](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/2018_1202-q-400x300.jpg)
The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive
Author Roderick A. Ferguson discusses the commodification of queerness.
![The annual Pride Parade makes its way past the The Stonewall Inn on June 24, 2018, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/2018_1129-stonewall-400x300.jpg)
Gay Emancipation Goes to Market
In this excerpt, Roderick A. Ferguson examines the beginnings of depoliticization in the LGBT movement.
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Trans Communities of Color Survive, Thrive and Fight Back
Artists and activists honor communities of color on Trans Day of Resilience.
![Educational institutions must once again become sites of fascist resistance and defend their trans students.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/GettyImages-644661410-400x300.jpg)
Schools Must Be Crucial Sites in the Struggle for Trans Liberation
Educational institutions must once again become sites of fascist resistance and defend their trans students.
![LGBTQ activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of New York City Hall, October 24, 2018, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/2018_1030-trans-400x300.jpg)
Labor Has a Role in Defending Trans People Against Trump’s Attacks
Union protections are imperative in countering the potential erasure of transgender and nonbinary people.
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Three False Ideas That Anchor Anti-Trans Attacks
To protect trans futures, we must remember trans pasts, work for gender justice and defend true religious liberty.
![A flag for Transgender and Gender Noncomforming people is held up at a rally for LGBTQI+ rights at Washington Square Park on October 21, 2018, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/GettyImages-1052723564-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Anti-Trans Memo Opens Door to Escalating State Surveillance
It's part of a broader agenda to weaponize immigration, labor, economic, reproductive and policing policies.
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Trump’s Transphobic Attack Is Cruel Beyond All Definition
The left has a duty to not only resist the Trump administration's transphobia, but put forward a positive vision.
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Corporate Media Enabled Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies
Mainstream media coverage of marginalized groups targeted by Trump should recognize the humanity of those communities.
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Right-Wing Fantasies About Gender Are Killing Trans People
The Trump administration's new plan to redefine gender threatens to roll back decades of efforts by trans advocates.