On Monday, the International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF), an anarchist movement made up of international volunteers in northern Syria, announced what it said was a new LGBT unit to battle “not only Daesh but capitalism and the state.”
The unit gave its name as the Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army, or TQILA. The IRPGF is a unit of the International Freedom Battalion, or IBF, a collection of foreign fighters who traveled to northern Syria to battle ISIS alongside the Kurdish militia known as the YPG, or People’s Protection Units.
