A 50 anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion

Upon completion of half a century of struggle LGBTI, there are many conquests to achieve. the bar Stonewall Inn remains in the Greenwich Village, the gay district Manhattan. At that time they frequented trans, drag-queens, fags and taxi boys. Police harassed and lived by razzias, until early 28 June people are tired. A pair of transvestites in front rebelled and hundreds were adding to cry gay power (gay power). Street clashes lasted several days and the police had to retreat.

From there, the LGBTI movement was organized, It grew and spread throughout the US. THE. and almost everyone. The following year a mobilization inaugurated Pride marches, celebration by combining triumphs and struggles for outstanding claims.

Since Stonewall there was progress on rights for sexual diversity and gender. According to a report by ILGA (International Lesbian, Gays, bisexuals, Trans e Intersexuales. State Homophobia 2019), countries under different legal forms persecute and punish sex-gender dissidence went from 138 in 1969 a 70. And among countries are China and India decriminalized, in half a century the world population susceptible LGBTI legal criminalization has been reduced from 74% al 27%.

However, in countries like Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia or Iran male homosexuality (between consenting adults) It can be punished with the death penalty, according to the fundamentalist version of Islamic law (Shari'a). The same occurs in regions of Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Mauritania and Pakistan. Dozens of other countries penalize male and female homosexuality with prison.

Even in countries where legal advances were obtained real life presents problems. In Argentina where collective struggle succeeded in cutting-edge laws worldwide, as equal marriage (2010) and gender identity (2012), every week some news appears on beat up a young gay, discrimination to a lesbian couple or travesticidio¹.

It is that the current system in the world is still patriarchal and capitalist, they are two sides of a coin. The exploitation of the working class gender oppression against women and adds disidencias². Capitalists benefit financially from this oppression through free domestic work of women and that all institutions that sustain unequal power, which it is a permanent source of prejudice and sexist violence. One of those institutions, under the aegis of the State, It is the Roman Catholic Church: anti-rights their role is similar to Shari'a.

"Male and female he created them" ...

With this medieval title, few days ago a document from the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education published. Talk about "Respect each person" and he says that "Society is indebted to women" (go new), but its axis is attacking the so-called gender ideology because according to them "Denies difference and natural reciprocity of man and woman". "The cultural climate of our time has certainly contributed to deconstruct the family, with the tendency to cancel the differences between men and women, considered as mere effects of historical and cultural conditioning ".

The Pope and the Church deny that gender is a construction (and deconstruction) social and reaffirm the functional binary heteronormative family model to the capitalist system. While condemning dissent, comprehensive sex education, contraception, legal abortion and other rights, hypocritically continue covering up their pedophile priests, as Provolo Institute, where sexually they abused deaf children.

Some immediate claims

In the Spanish State the VOX fachas are the standard bearers to take away conquests and prevent advance, confront them is to put a stop to discrimination. On the other hand, there are groups that formulate very fair claims, such as: end employment discrimination, facilitate access to better material living conditions, approve the budget necessary for effective implementation of progressive laws in force, readapt the public space with feminist perspective and for the benefit of LGBT people, eradicate schools and schools harassment on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

further, introduce the figure of the specialist gender and sexual diversity among educational workers and agencies, advance planning progressive policies, train health professionals regarding the health of lesbian women, bisexual, trans, require the development of a prevention protocol sexist attacks and phobic in LGBT festivals and social events, etc. Transitional demands for which to fight are many, on the road to fight for substantive solutions.

Assimilation versus revolution

As with other social movements, if they can not defeat, the capitalist system, its institutions and governments seek to deflect and absorb all progressive socio-political phenomenon in order to neutralize their questions. So do with feminism, human rights or environmentalism.

Thus, relying on high-class sectors of the community, co-opt some references and implement policies gay friendly to conceal the persistence of patriarchal oppression. Another great example of pink washing (pink wash) is the State of Israel, that publicizes worldwide tolerance towards LGBTI group to hide its historic and violent oppression of the Arab population in general and Palestinians in particular.

Before the fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall, New York police just ask "Apologies" for its repressive actions of half a century ago, alcaidía official celebrations organized subsidized by large companies and even misogynist dinosaur and Trump himself homo-odiante "celebrates" the "Outstanding contribution" the LGBTI community.

Nosotres not seek any adaptation to this system and we settle reforms. Come for a true and total sexual liberation and gender, it will only be possible when next to the working class in a revolutionary way vanquish this capitalist and patriarchal system and replace it by building an egalitarian society free from exploitation and oppression, ie socialism. It's the fight in the Spanish State compañeres give SOL-Boards and to the left, members of the International Socialist League.

Collaboration Pablo Vasco, Free-MST Diversity (Argentina)

1. Argentina was achieved in justice regarded as travesticidio the murder of Diana Sacayán. Rio Gallegos cover change to hate murder aggravated by gender identity in the murder of Marcela Chocobar was achieved.

2. Sometimes also they coexist other oppressions, as imperialism or racism.