Who among us knows about the banned 2005 Pride that still went ahead? Or the first Pride in Poznań, beaten simultaneously by the pigs and nazis?
Do you remember the marches in Lublin? Białystok? Do you know who Ewa Hołuszko is? Do you remember the Blue Forum – the first online self-help platform for trans people? Do you know what happened on August 8? We have our rebellions.
But our history isn’t alive – it’s not passed down through activist generations. Each queer generation enters the world convinced it must invent the world from scratch. That there was nobody before us.
This is a capitalist, right-wing trick: tell a history that excludes us, then insist we were never there.
We have always been here – from the Greek myths, through Mieszko’s retinues and witches burned at the stake, to ghosts and revolutionaries.
In the media, liberal activists wipe their mouths with American revolutions, as if throwing a brick was as easy as throwing a stick to a dog. These uprisings are distant enought in time and place that they no longer threaten the state or the corporations that profit from our degradation. They render PRIDE into mere spectacle — “pride” instead of DIGNITY.
Stonewall was not polite; it was an uprising – a revolution against the story that if we’re nice, maybe they won’t kill us.
That’s how queer became part of the wider liberation movement, and not a product that helps sell machine guns to Israel.
In the following years, explicitly revolutionary queer groups formed. They fought in anti-racist struggles, like the Lavender Panthers in the USA, or supported mining communities during the miners’ strike in 1981 in Great Britain, under Margaret Thatcher’s rule.
The queer revolution became a general revolution, and not a picket demanding marriage rights and a thirty-year mortgage – the right to be like them.
WE DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE THEM.
The LGBT bourgeoisie – cis gay men, white and able-bodied people – were the first to find a place in the system. They opened their own dance venues, sold flags, and betrayed solidarities forged in earlier years.
Because of them the rainbow flag is like Che Guevara’s face or the pope – a gadget, a symbol that shows only that everything can be bought.
There is no advertising space in a revolution.
The moment we try to do something that truly threatens capitalism, the state, or the church – the gay bourgeoisie will not only condemn us, but also misgender us and be the first to report us to the police.
We refuse to conform. We do not ask for acceptance; we demand whole lives, for us and for everyone. Now – not “when society is ready”, because they will never be ready.
FROM OUR OWN WILL WE WILL SAVE OURSELVES
We do this because we are in every movement and every social struggle. We fight not only those the movement stands against. We also have to fight our comrades in arms, the mates for whom “pedał” (faggot) is still an insult to a priest – “haha, he likes it in the ass.”
That’s why we need our own movement: a movement that will not be revolutionary only in the sense of throwing bricks. A movement that will be independent, that will allow us to survive and leave no one behind, whatever history has in store for us.
We have no demands easy to rewrite into laws, because we don’t want laws – we want life. We don’t hold galas for sponsors who live off our labour anyway. We ask for nothing; we have our own goals.
Abolition of private property. You can have a toothbrush, but why do you need a private yacht or a fifth empty apartment?
Abolition of the state: borders are lines on a map that kill. The state is a pig with a baton – sentences for aiding sex work, medical violence and prisons.
Abolition of the nation, blood does not decide what kind of person you are, and neither blood nor skin colour makes someone more or less worthy of saving.
We long for a network of independent, free communities.
They accuse us of wanting to abolish the family. Yes, we do. We aim to abolish the family as we know it from home – the father as king and we as his subjects. A family should be people who care for and love each other. Not “mom, dad, child, dog and the holy spirit.” Family is care, warmth, and cooperation – not a factory producing obedient workers.
We do not need the world. The world needs us. Our hands, our work, our bodies, and our hopes.
We know you as the servant knows their master. We know where it hurts – we serve your tables, your machines, and your dicks every day.
Our only choice is – faggotry or barbarism.
We already have barbarism.
Strengthened by the courage and wisdom of revolutions past and thinking of those yet to come, let us build communities, make friends, fight – and for those who want it, have kinky sex out of this world.