Queer Strike formerly Wages Due Lesbians

Grassroots, multi-racial, lesbian & bisexual women’s group campaigning for our economic, legal and human rights; for payment for caring work, taking the money away from military budgets (over one trillion a year) for the essentials of life, and so that women everywhere can afford to make the sexual and other choices we want.  We make visible lesbian/bi women’s caring and survival work for our families and communities, which is often hidden because we can’t be out.

We are from different backgrounds and ages: single mums, sex workers, with disabilities, housewives, immigrants, students . . . from villages and cities, in Europe and countries of the South.

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Volunteers welcome!  Activities include:

• Dykes on Strike: we take part in annual Global Women’s Strike events on 8 March and actions throughout the year. We call for “No war! Invest in Caring not Killing!”  www.globalwomenstrike.net
• Asylum: we campaign with lesbian & bi women seeking asylum from homophobia.

• Anti-war and occupation: we work with Payday men’s network defending the right of gay conscientious objectors like Mehmet Tarhan & Stephen Funk who refuse to be killers, and for lesbian & gays to come out of the military “No pride in the slaughter of others”.  www.refusingtokill.net  
• Pride: we press for Les/Bi/Gay/Trans Pride to be a movement event, not just a commercial party.
• Police homophobia: we defend our communities against police sexism, racism and homophobia, and oppose any police take over of our movements. 

• Custody: we support lesbian/bi women fighting to keep custody of our children.
• Job discrimination: we campaign against homophobia at waged work.
• International: we have sister groups in Spain (Barcelona) & US (Philadelphia & San Francisco,) and work with other groups eg. Movimiento Gay Revolucionario de Venezuela which says “There is no contradiction between homosexuality and revolution.”