MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 24, 2017: The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA) was established in Rojava, Syria to combat the persecution of LGBT people by ISIL. The TQILA was a queer anarchist subunit of the IRPGF, who fought alongside the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG).</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchsim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchsim</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syria</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/isis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>isis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/isil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>isil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kurdish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kurdish</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ypg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ypg</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rojava</span></a></p>