quiet desperation, amplified

he/they. 1977. all we have is each other. whollymagnetic.bandcamp.com

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[archivearchangelica]

Allahabad, India, 2011

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grey gardens 1975

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[thevoiceofn0thing]

"The world cup shows what world peace would look like" and it's just rows of men upon men upon men upon men drinking with men laughing with men partying with men liberated with men and domestic abuse hotlines will spike tonight

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[unteriors]

Cooper Avenue, Moorebank (Sydney), New South Wales.

[archivalwork]

Palestinian boy plays near Bilal Raamadan's section of What Survival Left Behind; visual art exhibit of Palestinians' work held at Al-Bureij camp c. May 2026

Asian; Middle East, Palestine, Gaza; 2026 More from Bilal Raamadan on Instagram [art.bilal_raamadan]

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What Survival Left Behind, art exhibition for young Palestinians at al-Bareij refugee camp in Gaza city Middle East, Palestine; May 2026

Qita Mish Bilqa describe themselves as "a youth visual art initiative and exhibition from Gaza led by young artists reflecting the rise of art from the rubble into light and creativity." via instagram.

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Marcel Theo Hall better known as Biz Markie died July 16, 2021 R.I.P.

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There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

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[danikriatura]

On this day, 15 July 1954, in Spain, the right-wing dictatorship of general Francisco Franco amended the 1933 vagrancy law to criminalise homosexuality. The amendment also authorised the detention of all those convicted under the law in labour and concentration camps (content note: sexual violence).

Over the next 25 years, around 5,000 LGBT+ people would be imprisoned – mostly gay and bisexual men and trans women. They were housed in specialist prisons in Huelva and Badajoz, and in a camp in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, and many were subjected to brutal sexual violence, and medical abuse like electric shock treatment.

Most of those prosecuted for breaching the law were working class, and historian Pablo Fuentes told the Guardian that it was "not uncommon to hear homosexuals from the upper classes and the aristocracy speak about the Franco period as a great time."

After Franco's death in 1975 and the subsequent fall of the dictatorship, political prisoners were released, but LGBT+ prisoners were not.

The homophobic law was eventually overturned in 1979, although those imprisoned because of it were not recognised as victims of Francoism and awarded compensation until 2009.

Learn more about how Franco seized power in our podcast episodes 39-40 about the Spanish civil war: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

Pictured: Silvia Reyes, a trans woman who was imprisoned over 50 times. Photograph by Luca Gaetano Pira.

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"Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They're not killing 'THEM'. They're killing 'US'."

Graff in the NYC subway referring to the killing of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE agents in Houston, TX on 7 July 2026. He had been driving a work crew to a construction site when an ICE officer shot him