------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 6, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
LESBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS: COMING OUT AGAINST THE WAR Wherever people have come together to protest the U.S. war against Iraq, the racist roundup of Arabs, Muslims and South Asians, and the trampling of civil liberties, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and trans people have been there. LGBT activists have been organizers, leaders and speakers at the major anti-war protests. On Feb. 15-16, LGBT people organized into contingents, marching under their own banners. In Cleveland, the newly-formed Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgendered People for Peace led off the entire march of 1,000 people, chanting, "Don't ask, don't tell, war and bigots go to hell" and "Stonewall the war." Significant LGBT contingents marched in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and other cities in the U.S. More than 130 LGBT endorsers, including more than 80 organizations, have signed onto an open letter calling for active and creative opposition to the U.S. government's "war on terror" and impending war on Iraq. It was initiated by the Audre Lorde Project and the National LGBT Program of the American Friends Service Committee. Internationally, sizeable LGBT contingents were an integral part of protests in Toronto and Montreal, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brazil and Sydney, Australia. In Rome, more than 1.000 LGBT anti-war activists demonstrated on the Via Marco Polo. In Taiwan, the Gender Sexuality Rights Association and other LGBT groups took part on Feb. 15, proclaiming "minorities united against the war, LGBT against the war." --Leslie Feinberg - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe wwnews- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the voice of resistance http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
