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It is possible to be against homophobia without being pro-LGBT pandering.
It’s a conversation I keep having with my gay niece and is based on my experience of friendship with an older gay lady. She had been a police officer and taught me that the worst thing about her sexuality was not the abuse that she took from police colleagues back in the 70s but the fact that she was always defined by her sexuality. She was often described as Gay Carol (not her real name) but pointed out that nobody called me Straight Steve. Her point was that she was an ex-copper, a student, an author, a dog-lover, and many other things yet most people saw her first and foremost as a lesbian.
For this reason she wasn’t particularly a fan of a homogeneous gay community (although she had a group of lesbian friends) and saw Pride and all that goes with it as important in 1980 but retrogressive in today’s society. She was rather saddened that her generation had fought really hard not to be defined as gay yet here we are today talking about a LGBT community who have a certain set of rules and norms that you need to adhere to and that you’d be ostracized for non-comformity. Just ask a young gay Tory voter.
I don’t see how this cynical marketing ploy advances the cause of gay Glaswegian PT supporters.
It’s a conversation I keep having with my gay niece and is based on my experience of friendship with an older gay lady. She had been a police officer and taught me that the worst thing about her sexuality was not the abuse that she took from police colleagues back in the 70s but the fact that she was always defined by her sexuality. She was often described as Gay Carol (not her real name) but pointed out that nobody called me Straight Steve. Her point was that she was an ex-copper, a student, an author, a dog-lover, and many other things yet most people saw her first and foremost as a lesbian.
For this reason she wasn’t particularly a fan of a homogeneous gay community (although she had a group of lesbian friends) and saw Pride and all that goes with it as important in 1980 but retrogressive in today’s society. She was rather saddened that her generation had fought really hard not to be defined as gay yet here we are today talking about a LGBT community who have a certain set of rules and norms that you need to adhere to and that you’d be ostracized for non-comformity. Just ask a young gay Tory voter.
I don’t see how this cynical marketing ploy advances the cause of gay Glaswegian PT supporters.
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