The International Revolutionary People’s Guerilla Forces (IRPGF) announced the creation of the first LGBT military unit that will fight against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on Syrian battle grounds. The group, comprised of an unknown number of international volunteers goes by the name The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army – TQILA (pronounced tequila? Too good not to mention).
IRPGF is an anarchist movement made up of a collection of international fighters who are in Syria battling ISIS alongside the Kurdish army known as the YPG (People’s Protection Units).
The formation of TQILA comes after the rise in targeting of queer people by ISIS terrorist groups. Just last year at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida Omar Mateen underwent an attack that killed 49 people. The location was targeted as a nightclub for ‘homosexuals’ – a taboo punishable by death in Syria and Iraq among other Islamic territories.
Men who have been targeted, hunted and accused of being gay have been blindfolded, tortured and murdered before large crowds.
Enough is enough! The group posted an announcement on their Twitter page declaring TQILA’s efforts to bring down ISIS
The group’s logo, a black AK-47 over a pink background, symbolizes the group’s motto: “Shoot back! These faggots kill fascists!”
I don’t know. I’m having a
I don't know. I'm having a hard time believing this is genuine. It just seems too staged and too convenient that this group is mimicking the words of the "woke" "resistance" movements in the West. This could all be a set up. I don't think we should get our hopes up too much.
I don’t know. I have a hard
I don't know. I have a hard time believing this is genuine. I mean, under the best of circumstances in the Middle East, LGBT groups are barely visible if at all. I just don't see how, in the middle of a war zone, a militant LGBT group comes out to the public complete with rainbow flag and gay liberation banner. It's possible that these are either ISIS agents trying to drum up support through anti-LGBT animus or the group is not actually in the Middle East but appropriating the war for its radical agenda. It just seems too convenient and too staged to be real.
about time
about time