A Clarification

In my article in Radical History Review 138, “The Very Quintessence of Persecution: Queer Anti-Fascism in 1970s Western Europe,” I argued that “transgender and gender-nonconforming people and cisgender lesbians” led the way within 1970s European LGBT+ movements in connecting queer liberation, anti-fascism, and anticapitalism, and developing what I argue was a uniquely queer anti-fascism.¹ I would like to clarify after publication that this was also the case for West Germany’s Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin (HAW). On page 69 of my article, I referred to HAW queer anti-fascists as “trans and cis lesbian feminists,” “lesbians and trans people,” and “trans and cis feminists.”² I intended to include gender-nonconforming activists in these formulations (within a broad notion of trans), but I have since received feedback that my formulation was confusing and led some to believe I was calling the Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin’s Feminist Group (Femnistengruppe) a transgender women’s group or...