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LGBT Organizing on Peace & Demilitarization

AFSC helps nurture the emergence of a new LGBT movement that resists the U.S. government’s perpetual "war on terrorism" and challenges militarism. We believe that LGBT anti-violence work must expand to include the violence of the state. We place our work for LGBT rights and recognition within an international human rights framework and draw on the historic Quaker witness for peace.

At the same time, we work to bring a progressive queer voice to the peace movement in the United States and ensure that LGBT perspectives help inform work for demilitarization.

Resources

(PDF documents require Acrobat Reader, available as a free download.)

• Open Letter to LGBTST Communities Opposing War the War >
  From the AFSC's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Program and the Audre Lorde Project, January 27, 2003

• AFSC LGBT Issue Brief - Is Opposing the War an LGBT Issue? (PDF, 144 KB)
  AFSC & National Youth Advocacy Coalition, 2003

• A Statement Opposing the War from the LGBT Program >
  November 8, 2002

• Choose Healing Justice Over Vengeance >
  An AFSC Open Letter to the LGBT Community, September 18, 2001

• A Statement Opposing the War from the Michigan Office (PDF, 90 KB)
  AFSC Michigan LGBT Program anti-war ad

• Surviving Militarism, Racism & Repression >
  An Emergency Preparedness Kit for LGBT & Queer Youth

> Download as PDF (1 MB)

More peace and demilitarization resources >

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