but I was left wondering what exactly happened to LGBT activism. We started out as a genuinely counter-cultural subversive movement; Stonewall wasn’t named after a riot for nothing. Now we’re a demographic to be marketed to.
Yes, that means you won.
Rightly so.
Your preferences in gonad/gonad encounters are no more counter cultural, odd, strange or outre than mine for big redheads.
This is the promised land of equality and civil liberties.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Tracy W // Jul 1, 2011 at 10:59 am
This is a fundamental problem with a free society for some people (not particularly tied to sexual orientation, the rebel-for-the-sake-of-rebelling seems to be an equal opportunity stupidity form.
2 dearieme // Jul 1, 2011 at 11:35 am
Pressure groups and their leaders don’t usually seek equality, they seek privilege. It’s possible that Martin Luther King was an exception to this generalisation.
3 Peter MacFarlane // Jul 1, 2011 at 2:12 pm
A riot?
I thought Stonewall was a general.
No wonder it never made sense.
4 Vir Cantium // Jul 1, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Sounds like a publicly-funded salary looking for a new cause.
That’s the trouble with a professional equalities industry. That last thing they want is, errm, equality.
5 Kevin Monk // Jul 1, 2011 at 4:36 pm
I think there’s probably similar concerns from anti-racism campaigners that people just aren’t racist enough any more.
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