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

Go on, guess: REPOSTED

Originally published October 2023, reposted for the Zohran Mamdani candidacy.

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“As we celebrate Pride Month, it is crucial that we remember our history,”
the Working Families 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 and went on to found STAR to address issues impacting sex workers, trans youth, the homeless, and the incarcerated.”

Malcolm Michaels, Jr., aka Marsha P. Johnson, was not at the original Stonewall Riot and was not a significant organizer during the weeks after. Neither was Rivera. This is a myth.

Tellingly, the “work” being promoted and protected here is “sex work,” aka prostitution. Michaels did have a reputation for grooming young men into that dangerous occupation. Rivera was among the young men Michaels groomed.

One wonders what, exactly, America’s working families are supposed to admire about that.

The Sex Work Glitter Family Party adds “Angie Xtravaganza, a Puerto Rican voguer who started a Latine [sic] ballroom house known as Xtravaganza which is still around today.”

No, that is not a typo. “Latine” is the new Latinx, an identitarian contrivance that America’s working families are presumably expected to learn and use. One wonders how many recipients of the email wondered.

One also wonders how many American working families are interested in men holding fashion model poses in drag, and what benefits it brings to their kitchen tables.

Other notables cited here include “Renée Richards, a doctor and trans pioneer in tennis who played in the U.S. Open,” aka the first man who cheated at sports using a transgender identity claim.

America’s working families love seeing men cheat at sports. That’s why more Americans oppose letting men cheat at sports as “women” today than two years ago, is because working families in America just love watching men cheat at sports, so, so much.

Finally, WFP cites “radical feminist, professor, philosopher, civil rights activist, and poet Audre Lorde whose powerful prose gave words to a movement.” Which, fair enough, no complaints, but how does it help America’s working families, exactly?

Of course, this WFP email text is not really about American families with bills to pay. America’s median family is not concerned about any of these things.

These are hyper-radical, edgy identity-references tucked into a fundraising email during Pride Month — because the WFP has bills to pay.

Most recipients of the email will be white, educated people, aka “knowledge workers” with disposable income. Giving to WFP makes them feel better. It is a form of compensatory consumption, a way for someone well-off to spend money and feel more authentically radical.

Radical political organizations of every kind have been utterly tamed by the gender woo because it is most popular among white, highly-educated Americans in deeply-blue places like New York state, where the WFP began.

Opposing any element of the Pride agenda is death. The WFP cannot advocate for the daughters of working families who must compete against the next Lia Thomas for a college swimming scholarship.

When they speak on behalf of “the incarcerated,” they are not advocating for women’s prisons to be free of intact male prisoners.

Just imagine how it would go down if they advocated for the “Nordic model” that seeks to prosecute pimps and johns without putting prostitutes in prison. Never mind that socialist countries came up with it, the supposed “right” to “sex work” is something that rich, white, highly-educated people in late stage capitalism seem to value very much.