UP TO 200 activists from the capital's diverse lesbian and gay communities will debate radical strategies for liberation at a May 15 conference. organised by the London Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition.
The success of the conference will send signals to the communities and to both genuine and spurious supporters in the labour movement.
While Labour's leaders continue to privately proclaim their abstract support for lesblan and lesbian Child Support Act and publicly urge the Tories witchunt healthworkers living with HIV or AIDS.
Though most lesbians and gay men vote Labour, this continued betrayal pushes many away from politics and towards apathy or a lifestyle of nightclubbing and casual sex "Queer Politics' also come up for debate at the conference. It's In the U.S. these groups three years since the direct action group OutRage sprang up in London, hot on the heels of the US Queer Nation - now torn apart by its own contradictions. The same problem are eating away at OutRage. 'Queer' hyper-activism and clubbing-til-you-drop both Lesbian and gay liberation means smashing the material and ideological prison of compulsory heterosexuality. It can against their oppression by les bians and gays in their tens of thousands. Self-selected pockets of largely white, middle class gay men can't do it for us.
Oppression
Liberation necessitates understanding of, and commitment to, the fight against other oppressions in society.
If the Solidarity! Liberaton "93 conference can show that there is a radical political alternative. based on the historical experiences of mass struggles. then radical polities will attract more of those now disaffected. and leaflet children with pic-