Queer & Trans Liberation

June 2026 Resource List

Hi Friends!

Pride was born as a riot. Not a parade. Not a corporate sponsorship opportunity. Not a month of rainbow logos on products made in sweatshops. A riot. Led by trans women of color, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and so many others whose names history has tried to swallow, against police violence, against criminalization, against a state that had decided queer and trans existence was something to be punished. That origin is not a fun fact or a sidenote; it is the entire frame.

We are living inside a deliberate erasure of that history. The same systems that have always treated queer and trans bodies as threats to social order are doing what they have always done: legislating who is allowed to exist, in what form, in what spaces, under what conditions. The criminalization of queer and trans life is not new, and it is not accidental. It is the continuation of a colonial project that has always used gender and sexuality as tools of control, deciding which bodies are legible, which relationships are valid, which identities are permitted, and which must be surveilled, punished, or erased.