LGBT
Peace Work
LGBT Peace and Demilitarization Organizing
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.
What We Do
- Produce and distribute resources for LGBT activists
- Coordinate workshops at major conferences
- Mobilize LGBT activists to work for peace and demilitarization
Get Involved!
- Use the AFSC LGBT resources and statements below for your own organizing and educational outreach
- Contact AFSC's Youth & Militarism Program for counter-recruitment (for the U.S. armed forces) information and resources
- Check out these other groups doing important work on these issues!
National Youth Advocacy Coalition, National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, Incite! Women of Color Against Violence , Out Against the War Coalition, Chicago Anti-Bashing Network , Audre Lorde Project, Al-Fatiha Foundation, United for Peace & Justice
Statements
An
Open Letter to LGBTST Communities Opposing War
from the AFSC's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Program and
the Audre Lorde Project
January 27, 2003
A
Statement Opposing the War
from AFSC's LGBT Program
November 8, 2002
A
Statement Opposing the War
from AFSC's LGBT Program
November 8, 2002
Choose
Healing Justice Over Vengeance
an AFSC Open Letter to the LGBT Community
September 18, 2001
Michigan
LGBT Program Anti-war Ad (PDF, 90 K)
Resources
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