“As we celebrate Pride Month, it is crucial that we remember our history,”
the Working Famlies Party says in a recent fundraising email.
Founded as an openly left wing political party in 1998, the WFP has a “fusion voting” strategy to endorse Democratic or Republican candidates who adopt their agenda of better wages, health care, and progressive taxation. Despite their title and historical radicalism, WFP is a perfect avatar of the way Occupy Wall Street became Pride floats on Wall Street.
They need a new name. In the tradition of L and G and B becoming an alphabetical monstrosity, I hereby retitle the WFP “The Sex Work Glitter Family Party.”
“Pride is not just a parade or a celebration — it is an act of resistance,” the Sex Work Glitter Family Party tells us. Resist the Man by becoming a woman.
According to the email, the SWGFP is “uplifting the stories of LGBTQ+ activists, organizers, and icons, like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who were instrumental in the Stonewall Riots an…
