Over 100 courageous LGBTQ2S+ activists and their supporters — including a marching band led by a tuba with bell signage reading, “Trans Rights Now!” — answered the call of Boston’s Stonewall Liberation Organization (SLO) Oct. 13. They carpooled to a remote park in the Boston suburb of Newton, then m

While gathering before the action, SLO spokesperson E.B. rallied the crowd: “MFI works to vilify, dehumanize and strip rights from LGBTQ+ people, women and people of color. They’re a right-wing lobby group trying to impose their particular homophobic, transphobic and misogynist interpretation of Christianity onto all.

“LGBTQ+ kids deserve to see themselves reflected in what they are taught at school, and everyone deserves autonomy over their bodies and lives. ‘When our community is under attack, we fight back!’”

SLO literature states that the group is “a revolutionary organization of LGBTQ+ people fighting for self-determination in every aspect of our lives.”