Gender and Sexuality Rights Association of Gylias
The Gender and Sexuality Rights Association of Gylias (French reformed: Association pour l'avance des droits d'genre et sexualité d'Gylias), abbreviated GSRAG (AADGSG), is Gylias' main LGBT rights organisation. It was established in 1914 in Alscia, making it one of Tyran's oldest LGBT rights organisations.
It is a confederation of multiple organisations representing Gylias' diverse gender and sexual identities. Its activities are aimed at promotion of LGBT rights and gender neutrality in society, fighting against discrimination and bigotry, and ensuring social acceptance and civil recognition of non-cisgender and non-heterosexual groups. It is one of Gylias' largest and most socially influential organisations.
History
The GSRAG was established in 1914 in Alscia, through the confederation of several existing LGBT rights organisations. It was initially named the "Gender and Sexuality Rights Association of Alscia". The writer and activist Dæse Şyna served as its first president, and had a notable impact on its internal culture.
It experienced significant transformation and development in the Free Territories. Its organisation was reformed towards more of an anarchist model, and it expanded by creating links with various social centres, affinity groups, movements, unions, associations, and committees.
It had extensive involvement in the Free Territories' social revolution and became known for its fierce advocacy of LGBTQIA rights. During Gylian feminists' ideological conflict over sex work, it sided with the liberal forces, and helped them purge antisexualists and transphobes from public life and the feminist movement. It was aligned with The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army, an anarcha-feminist and queer anarchist unit of the International Brigades.
Having gained significant moral authority in the Free Territories, the GSRAG has retained its strength and influence in post-war Gylias, playing a significant role in the Golden Revolution.
Organisation
The GSRAG is a confederation run on horizontal, collective and autonomous principles. It is officially reserved the right to use pink as an official colour, as well as other LGBT flags and symbols, by Elections Gylias.
Its membership includes several organisations for specific LGBT groups, and it has ties with various social centres and organisations such as the AF/FA, GCWUA (particularly its Union of Sex Workers), NCC, RYU, and CAR.
It is engaged in political, social, and legal campaigns, promotion of LGBTQIA rights and representation, media monitoring to ensure LGBTQIA presence and accurate representation in the media, direct action, community self-organising, and mutual aid. It publishes periodicals and runs radio and television stations aimed at LGTBQIA Gylians.
It is known for its radical promotion of gender abolition and opposition to LGBT assimilation, instead advocating that the LGBTQIA communities transform the mainstream on their own terms, and maintain a spirit of radical expression and ties to the avant-garde.
Member organisations
Organisations affiliated to the GSRAG include the following:
- Gylian Agender Federation
- Gylian Aromantic Foundation
- Gylian Asexual Federation
- Gylian Bisexual Federation
- Gylian Genderfluid Federation
- Gylian Genderqueer Federation
- Gylian Homosexual Federation
- Gylian Intersex Federation
- Gylian Non-Gendered Federation
- Gylian Queer Federation
- Gylian Questioning Federation
- Gylian Lesbian Federation
- Gylian Pansexual Federation
- Gylian Polysexual Federation
- Gylian Trans* Federation