Shame on Fierté
The Faction Against Genocide, in Solidarity (F.A.G.S.) is a collective of trannies, fags and dykes of conscience denouncing Fierté Montreal’s pinkwashing.
We, queers of conscience, denounce Fierté Montréal’s pinkwashing. In accepting dirty money from corporate and capitalist interests, Fierté signs off on the genocidal investments of its partners.
In allowing floats for Zionist organizations, banks, and corporations, Fierté provides a platform and legitimacy to the racist rhetoric of its partners.
We say: NOT IN OUR NAME!
None of us are free
until we are all free.
The Zionist entity known as “Israel” has a long history of instrumentalizing a veneer of queer acceptance as an excuse to perform acts of genocide…
… ethnic cleansing, apartheid, collective punishment, chemical warfare, carpet bombing, targeting of civilian infrastructure, mass imprisonment, and international war crimes against Palestine and the Palestinian people.
In turn, they use racist and islamophobic stereotypes to broadly paint Palestinians as homophobic barbarians. This tactic, known as pinkwashing, is a cornerstone of the “Brand Israel” propaganda campaign.
More broadly, we denounce Fierté Montréal’s capitalist and colonialist co-optation of the struggle for our queer collective liberation.
The Stonewall Uprising was a series of riots led by broke trans people of colour, not a million-dollar parade led by rich white cis gay men and their corporate and state sponsors.
In the words of the late Sylvia Rivera, an instrumental participant in the Stonewall Uprising and lifelong trans revolutionary activist,
“this is no longer my pride.
I gave them their pride, but
they have not given me mine.”
We demand that Fierté Montréal
1. cut all ties with Zionist and colonialist corporations, banks, government branches, and community groups;
2. explicitly state its solidarity with Palestinian liberation;
3. take immediate action to right its wrongs;
4. stand in solidarity with all colonized peoples and all victims of state repression, from Turtle Island to Palestine.