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We are thrilled to announce the sale of our latest book, QUEER PALESTINE, edited and designed by queer Palestinians, with all proceeds going to direct relief for contributors in Gaza

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We have canceled our April 25th event at the Barnard Library in support of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and the call for an academic boycott of Columbia University and Barnard College.

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We are proud to announce the publication of a new collection of work by queer Palestinians on queer Palestine, to raise funds for direct relief in Gaza

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Pinko is a biannual magazine of gay communism. We publish new essays, archival material, and workers inquiries to serve as tools in the fight against capitalist sexuality and for gender freedom.

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The idea that queer pleasure must be banished from the public is at the center of the moral order which allows private wealth to risk the lives of every earthly being. Undoing this is part of the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

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Welcome to Pinko. Stay tuned...

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We support the demand to dissolve Commune and redistribute their funds to Black-led anti-violence organizing. Radical and left projects have long tolerated sexual assault and casual racism, undermining and ultimately destroying any transformative potential in our work.

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It's a photo of a burning cop car taken during the 1979 White Night riots, the biggest riots of the sexual liberation movement since Stonewall (more photos here: )

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We are proud to republish this call from queers in Palestine for aligned groups worldwide to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle against ethnic cleansing and for the liberation of their lands and futures. Read and sign here:

A Liberatory Demand from Queers in Palestine

We refuse the instrumentalization of our queerness, our bodies, and the violence we face as queer people to demonize and dehumanize our communities, especially in service of imperial and genocidal...

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Statement on Palestine

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You may not recognize the image we're using in our event poster (below)

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We have published @rojodelarc0iris 's new manifesto, Towards a ☭ueer Marxism

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Not to brag but how pretty are these zines 👀

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To consider:

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Haitian demonstrators have blocked roads as food, water and gas become scarce and vow to continue until their president resigns. Latest world stories here:

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We support survivors and their demand for removing rapists from Commune magazine. There must be no space for sexual violence in the left.

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What would it mean instead to make a claim to the public? To affirm social relations repressed in the name of the safety or innocence of the family? We could instead cultivate other ways of making collectivity and pleasure banned and policed under colonial capitalism.

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We are devastated to learn of the death of Cecilia Gentili. Cecilia was a force, a tireless advocate for trans people, immigrants, sex workers and drug users, incarcerated people and those living under occupation in Palestine. ¡Cecilia Gentili presente!

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QUEER PALESTINE is a nearly 100-page book of photos, interviews, and art from queer Palestinians, including those who remain in Gaza, guest edited by Eman Abdehadi, Kaleem Hawa and Jasper Saah

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Let’s go back: As the European bourgeoisie began exerting political control over the world it was transforming and enclosing, one of the key weapons in its hand was the concept of a moral geography it extended over its territories through the public/private distinction.

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Black and Indigenous social life was either banished from the public or condemned to eternal publicness. The domestic family was imposed as a way eradicate kinship structures that upheld alternative forms of living.

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Pinko is for queers who want a communist account of the fight for our lives, communists who want to understand gender, straight people who need a way of grasping sexuality, and socialists who might still believe in the family.

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4 years

Thousands of supercomputers have been furiously calculating what our next issue will look like. Here is the result:

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7:30, November 2nd, join @melissagira and three local organizers to discuss the history and strategy of queer/trans self-defense against a growing threat of fascist mobilization. Register for free here:

On Political Violence: Fascist Mobilization & Queer & Trans Self-Defense

Join Haymarket and Pinko for a timely discussion about political violence and queer and trans politics and strategies.

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Soon, sex workers and proles seeking pleasure alike were subject to state violence for the crime of not having a room of their own. As the capitalist state became more elaborate, it invented new types of crimes and new types of people who commit them.

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After a long period of gestation, we’re thrilled to announce the imminent printing of our third magazine issue! Secure your copy from the first print run here:

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Good morning! Today we are launching our campaign on Kickstarter to raise $7000 to print our first issue. Please donate and share!

Pinko Magazine

A biannual print magazine of gay communism

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The practice of accumulation by dispossession not only violently disrupted Indigenous people’s relationships to land but also each other. This happened in Europe, in Africa, and in the “new world” colonies. Private property is also a way to enforce white-coded “propriety.”

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Proletarian sexuality was always politically threatening and somehow queer. See this 1790 French pamphlet which satirizes the revolution by conflating it with the political demands of “the children of sodom”

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“The time when humanity can watch the genocide of a people without acting is again upon us,” writes Nadia Bou Ali in @Parapraxis_Mag . “The genocide is happening with no restraint beyond resistance,” but it is the resistance from which humanity draws the strength to act.

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We freely acknowledge drawing inspiration from this incredible poster created and distributed by Lesbians Against Police Violence and The Stonewall Coalition in the aftermath (found here: )

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Bourgeois women began “civilizing” projects, imposing the social conventions they expected from their private rooms on the city at large, in particular regarding what (sex) they did not consent to see. The newly established police forces and public hygiene projects joined in.

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Inspired by the advice initially given to Commune, we are currently developing accountability and response practices for our own magazine and editorial collective around issues of sexual assault, intimate abuse and racism, and will be making those public soon.

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To honor her memory, we have formatted and republished Cecilia Gentili's 2017 interview with the NYC Trans Oral History Project about her legendary life

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And then "all hell broke lose"

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We are looking for essays/critical dispatches from local defense projects responding to the recent anti-trans/queer mobilizations. This will be for publication in a paid online series, and can be anonymous. Email commie @pinko .online

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fuck the fourth of july, burn a flag and tag us. one lucky anti-state actor will get a free subscription (the next 2 issues of pinko!) you’ve got 24 hrs 😘

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In Europe, the uprooted peasants lived in what their exploiters saw as sexual anarchy. They were crowded in tenements, three or four to a bed, unsegregated by gender, age, or family relation. Public spaces were often the only place to find privacy.

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What were the White Night riots? When the ex-cop Dan White, Harvey Milk's assassin, was given the most lenient possible sentence for murder, gays and lesbians spontaneously assembled in the streets of the Castro (from )

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The forces of reaction mobilized the innocent child as a foil to maintain this moral geography. And our legal freedom relied on affirming it — Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court case striking down sodomy restrictions, was decided on the right to privacy.

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9 months

In our new issue, Nsámbu Za Suékama traces the deep precedents of the current wave of anti-trans laws through her theory of imbrication, revealing Marsha P. Johnson as an avatar of transatlantic lines of spiritual revolt. Pre-order your print copy now:

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Now online, "STAR Queen for Autonomy and Defense," Nsámbu Za Suékama's tour-de-force analysis of the long history of African gender systems as insurgent strategies in the Americas through a presentation of her theory of imbrication, from our third issue

STAR Queen for Autonomy and Defense

An analysis of trans liberation, class struggle, and Black revolt

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We explained what a twink is to @BootsRiley so he could come back to Twitter, you’re welcome everybody

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Our friends at the @newinquiry have published the editors' note to our first issue:

Pinko Is Here

Instead of appeals to a collapsing social order, the urgent task is to seize and redistribute resources ourselves.

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These people were queers, comrades. Our desires were outlawed and the state attempted to eradicate us. In the Third Reich we were sent to the camps. In the US after the war, some of us fought back and reclaimed our right to pleasure in public.

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We will be releasing the official gay communist position on the question of "k*nks at pr*de" as soon as the editorial collective can meet next, please stand by

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Anyways, happy pride :)

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fuck this. subscribe to pinko

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Queer Eye is a preview of the world to come. Under socialism, with more free time and shared prosperity, people will walk with their heads held higher — not by the ones and twos, but by the millions.

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Amber Hollibaugh got in front of the crowd and gave what is remembered as a catalytic speech, telling the assembled "don't listen to anybody that tells you that you don't need to fight back!" (Audio at 9:55 )

Reaction to Dan White Verdict / produced by the Fruit Punch Collect...

This tape features man-on-the-street reactions to the verdict of the Dan White trial that culminated in the White Night riot of May 21, 1979. Over 10,000...

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We’re listening👂

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To commemorate the death of Henry Kissinger, we republish this declaration by the Homosexual Liberation Front of Argentina from our second issue, in memory of Kissinger's Chilean victims and to affirm the living victory of their struggle.

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Read our editor M.E. O'Brien on the half-century of gay radicalism since Stonewall in the longer history of communist struggle and Black insurgency over at @commune_mag

Fifty Years of Queer Insurgency | Commune

Inside Stonewall 50, a struggle for the next half-century of queer history.

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But crucially, *not* gay space communism

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Consider supporting the comrades at @pinkomagazine who are creating a necessary space for gay communism.

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It's happening

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They’re here!

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Our second issue is now available online for free:

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Part of our project is to reprint older texts from the archives so more people can read them. We’re excited to be publishing this editorial from the Gay Post on their philosophy of gay liberation.

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First copies of issue 2 are starting to get into subscribers hands, though mail has been slow. If you got your copy, take a pic and tag us!

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Got my copy of @pinkomagazine in the mail today! Only 20 pages in and it's already great

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We condemn the attempts made by the Columbia and Barnard administrations to intimidate students through tactics including suspension, eviction, and arrest.

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All proceeds from the sale of this project will go to direct relief for two of the people interviewed, one of whom is in Gaza City and one who has since evacuated to Cairo. The book will go on sale through our website in July.

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Since we're all stuck inside together, our whole first issue is available online for free

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A biannual print magazine of gay communism

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Encampments are spreading nationally. The students will not be moved. Palestine will be free.

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Hello! We have miraculously hit our first stretch goal in less than two days. We're now aiming to raise our entire first year's budget of $14,000, so we're offering a new reward tier at $30 which includes these luxurious pins + stickers

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The steadfast resolve of students and their supporters in the face of repression makes more clear everyday the violent irrelevancy of these compromised institutions for anything beyond profit, discipline, and death.

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Today is the 45th anniversary of the White Night riots. Read our thread from our launch event explaining its history and impact on the sexual liberation movement here:

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It's a photo of a burning cop car taken during the 1979 White Night riots, the biggest riots of the sexual liberation movement since Stonewall (more photos here: )

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Lana take: Society has progressed past the need for “We are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn” headasses.

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Ultimately, "Eleven squad cars bit the dust that night. For weeks afterward, we’d see three cops to a patrol car instead of the usual one or two." (from )

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That's why we're in print 😌

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like 99% of online lgbtq discourse at this point is utterly divorced from material reality

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We are proud to find ourselves in such company

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Along with Hammer & Hope, @newinquiry , @pinkomagazine , and other institutions have also recently committed to the campaign, which is a boycott of complicit Israeli cultural and academic institutions not a blanket boycott of individuals. Learn more at .

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A participant remembers the lesson the community took: "It became evident to all, even to those who had stayed in the Castro and away from the riot; WE WERE AT WAR WITH THE POLICE"

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A beautiful magazine of gay communism 🥰

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We'll be hosting a discussion on the gay liberation press at the Tompkins Square Park @nypl branch on June 15th from 3–5 with Amber Hollibaugh, @theoryqueenz , and Barms of @NycRedbloom

Pinko: Gay Liberation Press Today

Other event in New York, NY by Tompkins Square Library and NYPL Events on Saturday, June 15 2019 with 120 people interested.

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Copies of our first issue are out in the wild 😍

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The next day was Harvey Milk's birthday. Feinstein considered calling in the National Guard. As the SF Weekly put it, "San Francisco’s gays and lesbians weren’t able to take power with their siege on City Hall, but they would never be powerless again."

Yesterday’s Crimes: The White Night Riot at 40

The controversial verdict in the trial of Dan White for the killings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk sparked off the LGBT revolt that changed San Francisco forever.

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More than 10,000 people gathered at San Francisco City Hall where Mayor Dianne Feinstein was hiding upstairs. Cleve Jones, Milk's protege, tried to use his old megaphone to calm the crowd, but it was taken from him and passed around. ()

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Pinko Magazine would like to state for the record that we are not now nor have we ever been affiliated with Harvard University

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What is the historical precedent for the current attacks on trans life? What do they demand of us politically? We host an intergenerational panel of trans organizers for a community town hall to discuss Friday 9/2 at @BGSQD , in person and online. Join us!

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Whether it is by neglect or murder, the white supremacist state is responsible for our immiseration. We support the people in revolt. We charge genocide.

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A participant remembers: "As squads of cops appeared, people would run forward throwing rocks and waving sticks. I found myself in a group enjoying the wonderful experience of chasing a squad of about 10 police around the corner from our City Hall liberated zone."

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Our event is starting. Moderator Jasmine Gibson is introducing the panelists: Amber Hollibaugh, Barms Armstrong, and Michelle O’Brien (Che had to bow out) #pinkoNYPL

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They marched down Market street, chanting "Out of the bars and into the streets" and "Dan White, Dan White, hitman for the New Right." ()

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Zines hot off the press for tomorrow

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In the present struggle for Palestinian freedom we see glimpses of the coming international

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Came across Dr. Refaat Alareer's poem "If I must die" just a few days ago, I cried and couldn't help but translated it to Chinese without his permission. Now that he's gone.

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We stand with the survivor and call on Commune to demonstrate care and concern for their actions and comply with her demands.

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We initially had hope Commune would reform its internal culture when they deplatformed a rapist serving as an editor in December. We admired the visions of accountability on offer. Since then, Commune has repeatedly failed to adequately engage the accountability process.

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We’re working on it

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As a thank you to supporters we are sharing a rare image of Michel Foucault one of our collective members found while doing archival research. There's even more at our Kickstarter page

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When we say ACAB we mean all cops, including ICE and parole officers

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Everybody please welcome smut icon, genius polymath, and contributor to our second issue @SamuelRDelany1 to Twitter

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one of the largest “stop the steal” facebook groups has apparently rebranded

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A preview of our first issue is now available online at our website

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A biannual print magazine of gay communism

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Our supporters when they see the incredible Kickstarter rewards we have planned:

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there's a vending machine in this bar where for $3 you can buy a butterfinger, a condom, and a single cigarette scotch taped together

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Ok, wow. There is apparently a serious appetite for this project. Thank you all so much — we're less than $1000 away from our goal already!

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Good morning! Today we are launching our campaign on Kickstarter to raise $7000 to print our first issue. Please donate and share!

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Still working on the "brand voice"

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I wanted to say to every one of them, “Yeah, I was there. Next time we might come for YOU.” I could smell the fear on them, and I liked it. It was as close to respect as I had ever gotten from the straight world." (()

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The SFPD, which had raised more than $100,000 for White's legal defense, then raided the Elephant Walk bar on Castro Street in retaliation ()

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Another: it is "safe to say that none of us who were at City Hall that night and/or the Castro afterward will ever forget it. And had it not been for the pacifists then and the rising devastation of AIDS two years later, many others would remember, too,"

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Marsha's political vision is always clarifying for us. We've reprinted a short statement on her understanding of gay communism from a 1975 issue of a magazine she edited in our first zine.

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"We'd like to see our gay brothers and sisters out of jail and on the streets again." - Marsha P. Johnson, 1972

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Two editors, Michelle O'Brien & Jasmine Gibson, will be leading a discussion "Queer Communism in The Days Of COVID-19: A Discussion with PINKO Magazine" on Thursday 4/2 at 6:30pm with @STPEC_SBS

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It is with sadness we share the news that our friend and comrade Jeffrey Escoffier has passed. You can read a moving obituary by @whitstrub here

Remembering Jeffrey Escoffier, Queer Socialist Pioneer

With Jeffrey Escoffier’s passing this week, the world has lost a great thinker who took sex as seriously as politics and never lost sight of their intimate connections. Farewell to a titan of the...

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