07/08/2023
Thank you to everyone who came to the first annual Belfast Alt Pride event yesterday! We would especially like to thank CATU, Food not Bombs and Small Trans Library Belfast for helping to organise and promote the event; and performers Conn Thornton and Fruity for putting on a great show!
Pride is a movement built by and for q***r working class people, not banks and multinations who pretend to represent us, not cops who victimise us, not reactionary so-called feminists who try to divide us.
The speakers at the event focused on this, with Tom a PhD student and former CATU activist sharing the history of G**s Against Imperialism, a radical group which linked the struggles of national liberation and q***r liberation. Andrew, better known as Tanistry, spoke about the often overlooked but always present q***r stories in Irish history.
Until Pride returns to its roots as a radical, working class movement without corporations and cops the CYM will continue to organise Alternative Pride events throughout Ireland.
