Gay and Trans Freedom Is Everyone’s Freedom

Be who you are, choose your path, and let’s do it together. A big reason to support LGBTQ rights.

Tucker Lieberman
Prism & Pen
Published in
9 min readFeb 22, 2024

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three friends of varying genders laughing over drinks
Source: Gender Spectrum Collection

If you’re reading this, I bet we share certain values. Everyone wants to be free. Everyone wants to be in charge of their own body, to choose their relationships, to be part of society and sometimes just to be left alone.

Trans people share these values too.

There are forces that would like nothing better than to control us

Today, right-leaning political agendas are closing in on us. Whether they’re Neo-Nazis or other forces on the extreme right, or the MAGA that passes for mainstream in the United States these days, or the self-declared “liberals” who use language they believe is more “civil” but essentially sympathizes with and enables the right wing, they harm LGBTQ people.

Some people do it professionally, out in the open. They have names, sets of ideas, agendas, co-conspirators, organizational support, and massive funding.

They work through religious right-wing organizations, multinational companies, neoliberal regimes, and white supremacy (“las derechas religiosas…las empresas multinacionales…los regímenes neoliberales y al…

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Tucker Lieberman
Prism & Pen

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com