U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.”
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#GAYKGDOM: THIS ISLAND JT FOR LGBT’S IS A REAL PLACE!
There's a scene om the movie Ma which a group of rowdy Wall Street guys are at a NYC rtrant drkg and beg loud and next them are a table a gay men who are gettg more and more annoyed by their boistero antics. Fally, one of the gay men says, "Exce me, uld * gay kingdom *
As other Wtern mocraci creasgly legalize gay marriage, Atralia still languish due to polil foot-draggg, spe of pollg that dit more than 60 percent of Atralian voters support marriage equaly. An outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, Abetz suggted that the flags of anti-gay groups like the Marriage Alliance should also hang alongsi the rabow flag, which he scribed as an activist symbol of a "polil mpaign. "By way of some slight humor on this issue, this particular flag, you will realize, is the flag of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands, " said Abetz, smirkg as he shuffled a stack of papers.
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"The senator was referrg to a ragtag troupe of radil gay activists who, June 2004, claimed an archipelago of ty unhabed islands as their newly formed kgdom—a vast, 300, 000-square-e external terrory of Atralia that's jt off the ast of by their emperor, Dale Parker Anrson, they set out on a ship dubbed the "Gayflower" and sailed for 200 ntil to the Coral Sea Islands Terrory. Upon landfall, Anrson and his ras planted the rabow flag, their chosen natnal emblem, on ty Cato Island, where they set up a post office, erected a monument and selected Gloria Gaynor's "I Am What I Am" as the natnal anthem. Even so, the Gay and Lbian Kgdom may fact reprent the first terrorial claim of sovereignty by an LGBTQ group for an pennt gay 'd be easy to wre this seemgly absurd pennce movement off as a creative brand of direct-actn prott—a silly stunt to garner prs for the e.
But when taken out of the ntext of Atralian polics, the Gay and Lbian Kgdom stands as one quirky example of what some have termed "queer natnalism. Yet 's a le of thought that has existed LGBTQ liberatn sce s earlit days, maniftg everythg om a radil proposal to take over a California unty to lbian-only mun to ltle-known groups prently lobbyg for an pennt gay as longstandg tensn wh the LGBTQ muny between social assiatn and separatism—that is, the bate over whether queer people should try to blend wh the rt of society or reject society outright—ntu to churn, the roots and history of queer natnalism seem as relevant as of the rnerstone exampl of a queer natnalist state is known rmally as Stonewall Natn, a 1970 plan to tablish a separatist gay muny Alpe County, a mountao and ral rner of northern California, which, at the time, had 384 registered voters. Activist Don Jackson argued that 'd only take 400 gays and lbians relotg to nstute an electoral majory, eventually leadg to gay ntrol of every elected office lol ernment.
"It would mean a gay ernment, a gay civil service, a unty welfare partment which ma public assistance payments to the refuge of persecutn and prejudice. Historian Lillian Farman, thor of the prehensive gay liberatn overview The Gay Revolutn, told me that some supporters genuely yearned for a sort of gay natn wh a natn; others saw as a prs ploy to monstrate that the gay and lbian movement had teeth. "Straight people the 1970s were very upset about the notn that gay people uld take over a town and jt tablish their own ernment there, " Farmen told me.
Huh. As you may know, Nick Jonas plays a closeted gay man on the Audience Network's Kgdom and while his character fally got some on screen actn on * gay kingdom *
"After the Los Angel chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil queer prott group, released their tailed plan to take over Alpe County a prs release, newspapers across the US ran the story. The ia also garnered ltle support wh the LGBTQ muny Jackson never realized a gay-majory Alpe, his plan shar a separatist logic wh other radil LGBTQ projects that have proceed . You n see this reasong the way activists amed the Gay and Lbian Kgdom's claratn of pennce om Atralia.
But the claratn of pennce self is a largely soberg survey of atroci gay people still endure around the world. "The Gay and Lbian Kgdom experiment failed for var reasons, but serv cred for revivg tert gay natnalism, " Viktor Zimmermann told me.
For much of history, LGBTQ+ royalty need to hi their inti. Even though some societi embraced homosexualy, most refed to accept a gay ... * gay kingdom *
As the Cologne, Germany-based executive officer of the Gay Homeland Foundatn, which he scrib as a "thk tank" for queer natnalism, he's ma headl of his own for promotg the ia of an pennt gay precisely would such a state look like? "Intertgly, sce acceptance of gay people has creased, there is much ls ternalized homophobia among young people, th also more reads to see the posive potential of the project.