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Guess What The 'Working Families Party' Does For Working Families During Pride Month

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Matt Osborne
Jun 28, 2023
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“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…

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