Transcribing the Past

  Bildo: Manifestaciantoj protestas kontraŭ la ekzekuto de du gejaj adoleskantoj  la 5an de Aŭgusto 2005 en Manilo (Filipinoj) el neniammilitointerni Two LGBTQ activists Condemned to death in Iran The UN declared that it was "Very concerned" after the death sentence judgement in Iran against two same sex rights activists. They are accused of promoting homosexuality.  Both women, 31 year old Zahra Sedighi Hamedani and 24 year old Elham Chubdar were condemned to death by a tribunal in Urmia in the northwest of Iran.  "We are deeply concerned by the decision to sentence two LGBTQ activists to death in Iran" said Liz Throssell spokesperson for the bureau of rights at the UN.  She lamented that the two women were condemned "on the basis of a vague charge of `corruption on earth` and denied a fair legal trial".  This verdict is often given to those accused of violating the religious laws.  Homosexuality is prohibited in Iran, whose penal code punishes sexual...

  Video link  https://youtu.be/0sfm2DkKSOM Digitalised recording of trans rights activist Sylvia Rivera's speech at New York City's Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally in 1973. (Transcription follows:) Sylvia Rivera: I may be— Crowd:  [booing] Sylvia Rivera: Y'all better quiet down. I’ve been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help and you all don’t do a goddamn thing for them. Have you ever been beaten up and raped and jailed? Now think about it. They’ve been beaten up and raped after they’ve had to spend much of their money in jail to get their hormones, and try to get their sex changes. The women have tried to fight for their sex changes or to become women. On the women’s liberation and they write ‘STAR,’ not to the women’s groups, they do not write women, they do not write men, they write ‘STAR’ because we're trying to do somethi...

  Photo from this thread   Recently the Polish national government working in tandem with several regional and municipal authorities have increased their homophobic and anti LGBTQ rhetoric, and pushed to further combat "Queer ideology" by endorsing a new family charter. Understandably this has provoked strong opposition within the country. One source of opposition is the association to commemorate the Warsaw uprising and its few surviving veterans. They've released an official statement denouncing the actions of the government and the very logic of homophobia.  https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2950827485036967&id=1436010186518712 My friend Sasha translated it into English, The Warsaw Uprising Association and the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Heroes of the Warsaw Uprising , which work to commemorate the veterans of WW2, are appalled by recent events, aimed at dividing society and incite hatred of LGBT people. Without delving into judg...