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sebastienneOK, those of you who followed me during Bindelgate will know that Stonewall have been somewhat assimilationist for some time. That is to say, the UK's leading LGB rights organisation (yes, those people who get asked to comment on Every. Queer. News. Item. on the BBC website) were approaching equality from the angle of "we're just like you! except we sleep with people who have the same genitals as us!" (mention trans issues to them and their poor little heads explode.)
Only now, their CEO has come out against marriage equality at the Lib Dem conference, in a staggeringly badly-argued way which gives lie to their usual "we're just like straight people! that's why we're disowning the WEIRD QUEERS" argument.
So who the hell are Stonewall? It's beginning to appear that their aim is second-best assimilationism. "Can't you just recognise us for who we are, which is almost as good & normal as straight people?" It's hardly a revolutionary rallying cry. It's hardly who I want representing me in Every. Queer. News. Item. on the BBC website.
It's gone beyond "these guys are the "Conservative Party" of queer activism - not at all my thing but I suppose they should exist as there are Tory queers" and into actual incoherent nonsense.
Only now, their CEO has come out against marriage equality at the Lib Dem conference, in a staggeringly badly-argued way which gives lie to their usual "we're just like straight people! that's why we're disowning the WEIRD QUEERS" argument.
So who the hell are Stonewall? It's beginning to appear that their aim is second-best assimilationism. "Can't you just recognise us for who we are, which is almost as good & normal as straight people?" It's hardly a revolutionary rallying cry. It's hardly who I want representing me in Every. Queer. News. Item. on the BBC website.
It's gone beyond "these guys are the "Conservative Party" of queer activism - not at all my thing but I suppose they should exist as there are Tory queers" and into actual incoherent nonsense.
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Date: 2010-09-21 03:19 am (UTC)