Contents:
- HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN
In 2015 the state of Utah passed an anti-discrimatn bill that protected the rights of LGBTQ dividuals areas of employment and hog while prervg the rights of relig stutns wh teachgs agast homosexualy. So what we need now is probably more emphasis on blogy, normativy and renciliatn wh your own malens or femalens, not further three tegori are generalizatns, but they provi a reasonable way to thk about the polics of the issu, nnsed recently the bate over Florida’s law rtrictg public school stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty, which s opponents brand the “Don’t Say Gay” law is obvly motivated and put forward by people the third mp and opposed by people the first mp. And, ed, some recent pollg, there is majory support for the provisns the law that seem to aim this the liberate vaguens of the Florida law and s vatn to lawsus by offend parents also means that uld end up beg ed to actively roll back gay rights or gay visibily — whether by phg gay teachers to the closet or disuragg any discsn of sexual orientatn olr gras (which a Louisiana bill would explicly prohib).
And sce there isn’t any sign of a retreat om the wispread acceptance of gay people and relatnships, this would likely turn the middle group agast the kd of laws and make easy for the first group to mobilize majori agast Unual CoalnIf the are the general ntours of the new culture war, however, there are also three important plitns. </em>Rch argu that the ph for same-sex marriage reprented a triumph of moratn over radilism wh the gay muny self and worri that today’s transgenr rights activists are takg a different the gay rights movement emphasized blogil reali (“born this way, ” etc.
” This risks backlash, endangers all the acmodatns to transgenr rights that Ameri is ready to offer — and also arguably hurts many gay and lbian young people, Rch wr, sce a system that enurag “tomboyish girls or effemate boys” to “intify as the oppose sex” ends up nfirmg “all the hoary genr stereotyp that ma generatns of gay and lbian people (and many straight people) miserable.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
”And Rch’s anxiety about gay youth here nnects to the femist ncerns as well — specifilly, the worry that normal anxieti of puberty, the particular challeng of girls’ mental health, are beg addrsed by the new theori not through renciliatn wh one’s body and blogy but through alienatn om femalens stak of teen transnsThe kds of ncerns are then heightened by the send plexy the current bate: the extent to which the e of medil terventns for trans-intifyg youth — puberty blockers and hormone therapy and then the possibily of surgery young adulthood — dramatilly rais the stak of the ntroversy and unrcuts the agnostic middle morate posn sketched above — the wa-and-see, kids-are-experimentg approach — is plsible to the extent that teenage exploratn tak the form of datg both sex, g a different pronoun or name, and changg a wardrobe.
However, the fury provoked by No Outsirs and RSE shows jt how polarisg anythg related to sex is, which is why ’s really unhelpful that this topic was sexed up forc lookg for a fight have bolstered the recent protts, and there was blatant homophobia on display that shouldn’t be dulged. An article the Hungarian Conservative, a magaze supportive of the Orbán regime, ni that Friends specifilly would be blocked by the new l — but touts the bill’s efforts to “protect children’s natural and healthy sexual velopment” om the allegedly nefar fluence of gay propaganda. “In a moral sense, there is no difference between pedophil and those who mand [gay adoptn], ” László Kövér, the speaker of Hungary’s parliament, said 2019.