Guess What The 'Working Families Party' Does For Working Families During Pride Month
Go on, guess
“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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