Leftist Icons: The LGBTQ+ Edition
This late author of the 1993 queer classic Stone Butch Blues’ last words were widely reported to be “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.
Who is/was Leslie Feinberg?
Transgender residents of this country have been able to access free government-funded gender-affirming healthcare since 2008
What is Cuba?
Born in 1855, this revolutionary followed in her fathers footsteps to fight both for a socialist future and a feminist one.
Who is/was Eleanor Marx?
This founding member of the Mattachine Society was expelled from the organization in 1953 for his involvement in the Communist Party.
Who is/was Harry Hay?
Friedrich Engels calls this relationship structure an economic tool designed to control wealth and subjugate women.
What is the nuclear family?
Known at the time by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the Black Civil Rights Movement to be gay, this socialist labor organizer was integral to the planning and organization of the 1963 March on Washington
Who is/was Bayard Rustin?
While journalist Nicholas Kristof titled his book Half the Sky that the slogan "women hold up half the sky" was actually said by this head of state
Who is Mao Zedong?
This theorist and activist dedicated her life to fighting for socialism, popularised the now famous “socialism or barbarism” quote, and was executed for her role in the German Communist Revolution in 1918
Who is/was Rosa Luxemburg?
In 2010, this socialist leader issued a formal apology for previous persecutions of LGBTQ people in the 1960s and 70s.
Who is/was Fidel Castro?
German Marxist-Feminist Clara Zetkin carried out a series of interviews in 1920 with this famous communist on the role of women in the revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This Black communist scholar publicly came out as queer in the 1990s and has long argued that queer liberation is inseparable from prison abolition and anti‑capitalist struggle
Who is/was Angela Davis?
In 1891 this famous queer poet wrote “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” which pointed to Socialism as a more just way to organize society then relying on the charity of capitalists
Who is/was Oscar Wilde?
After losing her husband and children to yellow fever, this fiery labor leader became a central figure in the United Mine Workers and traveled the country organizing strikes well into her 80s.
Who is/was Mother Jones?
Beginning in 1950 alongside the anti-communist “Red Scare,” this related moral panic targeted LGBTQ people serving in the US federal civilian workforce
What is/was the Lavender Scare?
After publishing the SCUM Manifesto in 1967, this radical feminist tried to assassinate Andy Warhol.
Who is Valerie Solanas?
This queer novelist and essayist argued that capitalism depends on racial and sexual oppression, shaping generations of socialist thought.
Who is/was James Baldwin?
This South Vietnamese communist guerilla group who served as the inspiration for the Gay Liberation Front’s name were commonly known in the US by this derogatory moniker.
“Who are/were the Viet Cong?” Full Name: National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
After her husband Albert Parsons was executed following the Haymarket affair, this anarchist continued organizing for decades, becoming a national figure in the fight for workers’ rights and free speech.
Who is/was Lucy Parsons?
In 1994 this revolutionary socialist movement implemented the Woman’s Revolutionary Law, which enshrined gender equality in all aspects of the group's new society both socially and politically.
Who are the Zapatistas?
This state, in 1970, was the first to fully legalize abortion in the United States.
What is Hawaii?
Before the leftist awakening that lead to him becoming a famous queer activist and political figure, this New York born man worked on the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater
Who is/was Harvey Milk?
In 1980, David McReynolds made history as the first openly gay major presidential candidate when he obtained the nomination of this political party.
Who are/What is Socialist Party USA?
Prior to being deported to the Soviet Union during the First Red Scare, this anarchist political activist embarked on multiple national speaking tours arguing in favor of birth control, feminism and homosexual rights
Who is/was Emma Goldman?
Born in December of 1869, this individual is often pointed to as one of the earliest clear examples of gay transmasculinity. He was arrested in Stockton California for the crime of “impersonating a man”.
Who is/was Jack Bee Garland
This document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, was written by women suffragists in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?