LGBTQ rights Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Ban on puberty blockers in UK to be kept: Labour’s transphobia exposed

By Conor Tormey Last week, Wes Streeting, the Labour Party Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, announced that the Labour government would keep the emergency ban on Puberty blockers. This was announced in a high court statement regarding a legal

Jul 17, 2024

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Who is Posie Parker and why you should protest the “Let Women Speak” event in Dublin

By Ollie Bell Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, more commonly known as Posie Parker, recently announced that she will be in Dublin on 16 September to have one of her #LetWomenSpeak events. According to her, Let Women Speak rallies are ‘free speech’ events where “anyone

Sep 11, 2023

News & Analysis

Defend libraries from far-right thuggery and intimidation

By Steph Lacey Over the last few months, far-right agitators have been going into libraries and bookshops across Ireland and harassing the workers over what they claim are ‘pornographic’ books being forced on children. In reality, these books are sex education guides

Sep 4, 2023

News & Analysis

Interview: Leitrim organisers violently attacked by far-right forces

Last week, a number of anti-fascist and queer activists across Leitrim successfully blocked far-right scoundrels travelling up the Shannon on their ‘Sovereign Voyage to protect Childhood’, from entering local libraries and intimidating library workers. In the context of increasing attacks against LGBTQ+

Aug 21, 2023

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Trans Healthcare – misinformation is an attack on our liberation

By Miranda Stewart As the capitalist system struggles for a stability that can never come, right-wing backlash against marginalised people has found momentum. Attacks on transgender and intersex people’s rights are part of that backlash. As with right-wing conspiratorial rhetoric about care

Jul 13, 2023

LGBTQ·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Tech company Intercom drops support for Pride and “divisive” LGBTQ+ rights

By Drew Freyne Intercom, a billion-dollar Irish tech company, faces employee unrest following its recent decision to end support for Pride celebrations and employee resource groups (ERG). ERGs are put in place to support minority or otherwise marginalised workers in large organisations.

Jul 7, 2023

World News

Poland: Half a million protesters take to the streets of Warsaw

By Paul Smith, Alternatywa Socjalistyczna — ISA in Poland Half a million protesters took to the streets on 4 June against the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government in what is claimed to be the biggest demonstration in Poland since the collapse

Jun 16, 2023

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Solidarity against transphobia, violence & capitalism: Build a movement for LGBTQ+ liberation.

In April 2022, two gay men, Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee were murdered within 24 hours of each other in Sligo; murders motivated by homophobic hatred. These brutal killings brought home a reality – that just being LGBTQ+ can still put you

Jun 23, 2022

Featured Articles·LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Solidarity with LGBTQ community against homophobic & transphobic violence

The horrific murders of Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee in Sligo this week — crimes that appear to be motivated by an insidious hatred of LGBTQ people — have provoked an outpouring of grief, disgust, and anger. The Socialist Party sends our

Apr 14, 2022

LGBTQ·News & Analysis

Pride 2021: How will LGBTQ liberation be won?

By Marie O’Toole, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) As we honor Pride month this year, transgender people across the country are under attack by a record-breaking wave of anti-trans bills in state legislatures, primarily targeting trans youth. The

Jun 5, 2021

LGBTQ rights

Ban on puberty blockers in UK to be kept: Labour’s transphobia exposed

Who is Posie Parker and why you should protest the “Let Women Speak” event in Dublin

Defend libraries from far-right thuggery and intimidation

Interview: Leitrim organisers violently attacked by far-right forces

Trans Healthcare – misinformation is an attack on our liberation

Tech company Intercom drops support for Pride and “divisive” LGBTQ+ rights

Poland: Half a million protesters take to the streets of Warsaw

Solidarity against transphobia, violence & capitalism: Build a movement for LGBTQ+ liberation.

Solidarity with LGBTQ community against homophobic & transphobic violence

Pride 2021: How will LGBTQ liberation be won?

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