Growing White Nationalist and Rightwing Attacks on the LGBTQI+ Communities.

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Published: 13 December 2022

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Extrajudicial political violence has long been a part of the history of the US from the colonial period to present, with violence used to steal vast swaths of land from indigenous peoples as well as enforce slavery on Africans. Even in the 20^th Century the attack on African American communities like the white supremacist Tulsa race riot similar attacks. However the resistance to that violence has been ever present and movements like the civil rights movement and native American rights movements and the LGBTQI+ communities have used mass mobilizations to resist.

While the US government has internally been less blatant about the use of this violence there is a noticeable reversal of this stance. Since the January 6^th 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol, the rising tide of rightwing insurrectionist violence has in some ways quickened and targeting of marginalized groups has again expanded to include the LGBTQ+ community. In recent weeks there has been a series of political and in somecases violent attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

Among the topics we'll discuss tonight are the Colorado Springs massacre and the context of the massacre in the heart of one of the hotbeds of the white evangelical movement in the US . The attacks on Britany Griner's release by right-wing politicians and pundits on Fox News, and the recent conviction of 3 white supremacists in a plot to unleash race war by sabotage of electrical infrastructure. Here to discuss this topic with us is Heron Greenesmith, a policy attorney and Senior Research Analyst with Political Research Associates, a group that monitors the right wing, based in Boston.

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TransLash Founder Imara Jones on Anti-Trans Election Initiatives: & Radio GAG on Club Q

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Published: 27 November 2022

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The Meaning of the Attack on Club Q

The recent attack on Club Q in Colorado Springs deserves analysis. Tonight we'll hear the analysis a sibling show at WBAI, Radio GAG (Gays Against Guns) presented earlier today, (Tuesday 11/29 on their 2:30 PM show also on WBAI/NY).

Professor Carol Anderson, best selling author of White Rage,  explains her motivation for writing and the discoveries outlined in her book The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.  Gays Against Guns founding member Jay W. Walker and Radio GAG producer Sarah Germain Lilly are in conversation with Professor Anderson on the curious question of whether the ‘right to bear arms’’  applies to Black Americans. Jay points out that the Club Q shootings that took place about a day after the interview are an example of the patriarchal white supremacy the Second Amendment  was designed to protect

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